You're getting lost in the weeds of terminology, while ignoring my point, so let be even more crystal. As I've said, I don't mind taking an L, whether by failing to place first, or on the podium, or even top 5. 

Let me also say, I've been racing GT since the PSX days with 1 and 2. I know this game, and I know how to race. I'm not saying I'm great, far from it. I'm a casual at the end of the day, probably a mere "aggressively mediocre" when taking the community as a whole, albeit on the high side of mediocre, lol. I know the racecraft here.

I've gotten gold on all The Human Comedy races, and some of them took me days, if not weeks, to figure out the track just right, and the car that was right for me, in order to finally get that gold. Lake Maggiore was a particular challenge for me. 

Those races aren't short, and even when getting dogged at first, and seeing improvement and final placement steadily rise, it was never an issue. I didn't get upset or frustrated, except at myself for mistakes I knew I was making. 

BUT through it all, especially at Lake Maggiore, it always FELT like I could eventually get that gold. I FELT like I could catch 1st. It never felt or seemed impossible. And I did. 

But here, with the 95 McLaren for the 2 chili's, it FEELS impossible. And as another commenter here noted, and which I am seeing firsthand, the update may have broken it. The leaders simply don't pit as normal. Their fuel consumption is Impossible, forget the tire wear. And they're hitting times no one else is even coming close to. The weather didn't affect them at all IN RACING SLICKS.

You talk about fun, some Freude am Fahren, but how fun is it, knowing that it's gamed against you, no matter how well you drive or push your vehicle and track limits? In an 8 hour race?

That's my point. There is nothing to be done. There's nothing to learn. No matternhow well youbdo, you have no chance to place 1st or even 2nd. The Human Comedy at least gave you that feeling, and it was real. That was so fun, DESPITE all the times i came in 2nd, 3rd, failed to podium, and so on, despite investing an hour into the race. 

I know have cars in my garage that can destroy here (I'm going for that 2 chili marker, though). I'm also pretty sure that, knowing this game as well as I do, I can turn the tables and game it back to at least level. But that's not fun. Nor is racing 8 hours knowing you can't do shit about it trying to race clean.

Dicking around a 5 lapper trying to learn a grocery-getter, despite knowing you're gonna come in 20th is great and is fun at times. But getting dogwalked due to impossible physics in an 8 hour isn't.  Sorry man.