{"id":51936,"date":"2021-02-06T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=51936"},"modified":"2021-02-07T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:52:47","slug":"project-cars-3-shame-and-loathing-at-1190-horsepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/06\/project-cars-3-shame-and-loathing-at-1190-horsepower\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Cars 3: shame and loathing at 1,190 horsepower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are Rivals events like New York Times crossword puzzles?&nbsp; Is Saturday the day for sadistic challenges?&nbsp; Why else would I be driving Project Cars 3&#8217;s most powerful car in the rain?&nbsp; Why else would I be hydroplaning in a car so absurdly overpowered that it doesn&#8217;t even have a name?&nbsp; Why else would I have done what I did to finish this challenge?&nbsp; Why else would I sink to these depths of shame and loathing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the sort of ridiculous challenge that rivals mode was made for.&nbsp; To be honest, I have only myself to blame for not chuckling at the absurdity and nope&#8217;ing out until tomorrow&#8217;s event.&nbsp; This is a pace setter event, so your logged time is the average of three laps.&nbsp; If you screw up one of the three laps by going off the track, you don&#8217;t even get to log a time.&nbsp; You get ten tries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After failing five times, I did something I never do.&nbsp; I turned on the assists.&nbsp; All of them.&nbsp; And I drove the event just as slowly and carefully as before, but this time with less slipping, sliding, and hydroplaning.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not proud about what I did.&nbsp; And afterwards, I immediately went back into options and turned off all the assists.&nbsp; Although it is some small consolation that three of the assists didn&#8217;t actually turn on.&nbsp; Project Cars 3 didn&#8217;t tell me they weren&#8217;t on.&nbsp; If I hadn&#8217;t checked the leaderboards, I&#8217;d have no way of knowing I drove those three laps without anti-lock brakes, traction control, and extrasensory perception.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s what my time looks like on the leaderboard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Project-Cars-3-GD-Italian-Sprint-leaderboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Project-Cars-3-GD-Italian-Sprint-leaderboard.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Project-Cars-3-GD-Italian-Sprint-leaderboard-300x144.jpg 300w, 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1,190 horsepower formula racer over a wet track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By the way, mad props to hmw48 for driving this event <em>with his keyboard<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/07\/project-cars-3-the-corkscrew-of-the-antipodes\/\">the Corkscrew of the Antipodes!<\/a><br>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/05\/project-cars-3-how-not-to-make-a-car\/\">how not to make a car<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Rivals events like New York Times crossword puzzles?&nbsp; Is Saturday the day for sadistic challenges?&nbsp; Why else would I be driving Project Cars 3&#8217;s most powerful car in the rain?&nbsp; Why else would I be hydroplaning in a car so absurdly overpowered that it doesn&#8217;t even have a name?&nbsp; Why else would I have 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