A Disappointing Combo - WTT (Week 35, 2025) - Nissan GT-R LM Nismo (2015) at COTA GP

Опубликовано: 30 Август 2025
на канале: LamboCoin Cars

Time: 1:16.744
Ranking: Upper Group A (WTT Group A #186, 136th consecutive, 6th as of Saturday morning)
Upgrades: Fully Upgraded
Settings: All Assists Off, Steering Sensitivity 4

At the start of this week, I had a decent level of optimism for this combo. Whatever my thoughts about it being featured this week, COTA's one of my strongest tracks historically, and the Nissan is a strong car of mine. Unfortunately, that didn't live long. The week quickly turned sour, and my initial lap ended up being a woeful 1.3 seconds off the pace. In a way, my double pole a couple weeks ago solidified the thoughts I had earlier this year that I've achieved just about everything I can in the game, which is shown by great inconsistency and lack of motivation in the second half of August, not helped by a lackluster 13.6 update. The Jesko at Silverstone had the potential to be great, but ended up being a nightmare. The Valour at Sebring delivered on its promise, although with more motivation it may have been pole. Meanwhile, this week was a nightmare trying to find my lost pace. At first, I was losing 5 tenths in Sector 1 and making it up in the latter half of the lap. When I picked it up again later on Friday, it was the exact opposite having tried and tested Sector 1 so much that I never got to the latter half of the lap. After a combined 3-4 hours or so of pushing and analysis, I finally got two laps that were semi-decent. First, a 1:16.833, and then this lap, a 1:16.744. There's a bit more to find out there, not enough for pole position, but P3 is just .054s away. As it is, I'm currently P6 officially, but there's some more or less questionable times in the top eshilons this week. Ok, the ME7 de Peru account (not actual ME7!) is an obvious hacker, but many other names I don't recognize. I'm not going to directly accuse anyone because there are mitigating circumstances: the loaned car is the best car in the lineup for the first time in almost 3 years, and while not cheap, 966 gold to fully upgrade isn't impossible, actually fairly good for a car like this. I'll keep an eye.
None of that changes that this week has been a nightmare from many standpoints, and one that greatly disappointed me because this felt like such an interesting combo at first glance. A bit ironic because it was my 86th Group A, exactly 100 ago believe it or not, that I spent a nightmarish week in more ways than one fighting to get Group A in the Porsche Mission R against the Radical SR10 XXR, eventually doing so with a mighty weekend push. Unfortunately, it's turned into hours of bottling laps and not understanding the car at this track. Still the weekend left I guess, if the Mission R story translates to here.