F3500 weekly challenge

This race just sums up GT7 so perfectly. Great car that is fun to drive in a one make race that should be good, but due to the terrible AI and lack of grid start, is an utter snooze of a race.

Every time I do this the top 8 or 9 cars break away and keep towing each other along with the slipstream to the point that it's impossible to catch up, even though I'm comfortably gapping the car behind.

A real shame as I thought this would be a fun one when it came up!

Anyone else had similar experience?