No! so much quicker on the corners and just as fast up the straight. The Mazda might as well go home or we all start driving the Suzuki and i for one don't want to spend an hour with that boring guy sat along side of me taking notes
That is not so true as you suggest.
1) The Suzuki wiii on the start generally loose about 5 places and on longer start line start even more. Us Suzukist hope for a short start straight.
2) The Suzuki will lose a stack of time getting out of the pits.
3) The Mazdas are not easy to pass, generally quicker out of the corners and even if you get a helping tow that may put you half way past only then to be out top speed by the Mazda.
4) The Abarth is most vulnerable to the Suzuki, but as the Abarth always beats the Suzuki, generally to the first corner, overtaking is mostly impossible to achieve, with out a sizable mistake.
Strategically the Suzuki is very handicapoed, especially as the aliens have really mastered the Mazda, along with most drivers now who are also quicker in the Mazda.
Try overtaking Kimi in the Suzuki!!!!
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“As I am on a roll”, I have had one clean race, the rest have relied heavily on strategy And a LOT of luck, as Paul said you can have all your performance totally removed by one person coming out of the pits in front of you.
In the Abarth on certain circuits you care not one jot that a Mazda is catching you, you can happily let them overtake, next straight you sail past.
Plus in the Abarth, once on a straight you can relax.
The Suzuki is not actually capable of overtaking either the Abarth or Mazda with out a big risk or a mistake on either the Mazda or Abarth part.
I like the Suzuki because it panders to all my modest plus points, but with that come all the cars negative points.
I have noticed that even Jason with all his skills and pace is sometimes snookered by the Suzuki.
You go for an early pit stop, come out behind a Mazda who’s pace is less than you, now you are stuck at sometimes -2 seconds of a lap, quite rightly he is not going to let you past.
You have no way of overtaking and the only hope you see is when he pits, you bet it will be close to the last 10 min.
Everyone is quick and reliably fast now on our forum so you just sit there and patiently wait for a mistake.
I just have to basically try and stay out on track for as long as I can and personally not make a mistake, there is no option of rejoining like Allan, catching and overtaking, a mistake in the Suzuki means that the mistake ( without a sizeable chunk of luck ) you may have to live with for the whole race distance.
Most tracks are narrow so unlike old tracks generally you cannot use your cornering speed on an empty part of the track to get past, because the car you want to overtake is in the way.
The first thing I do is look for that on a track, so that is my overtake point, unfortunately they are some where, always , at a point we’re you have lost time on the Mazda or Abarth getting there. So you are again mostly snookered.
I mainly drive the Suzuki cause it suits me and I really like it a lot. Most cars I am in a situation where my short comings are very evident, the Suzuki I like.
If the Suzuki did not have those short coming a) everyone would drive it, or b) it would be removed.
The end of a boring monologue.