B-spec as a test driver?

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There have been many discussions on many websits about the usefullness of B-Spec. I have one question. I don't have the game yet, but I thought B-spec could be usefull to set up a car, as a kind of objective testdriver who will tell me whether the changes I made to the settings made it faster are not.

Here is my question: is B-spec good enough to do that? Can you drive B-spec in free practice? And most of all: if you make a B-spec lap with the same car settings on different occasions (and being alone on the track), does it give you the same lap time.

Thanks to those who have the game for answering this question.
 
Hello,

Is nobody interested in this question?
I consider I'm a bad testdriver (because rather unregular). So, if B-spec is good and regular enough (always the same time if the circumstances are the same), we could have an interesting way to evaluate settings objectively. There could even be settings competitions: who proposes the fastest B-spec setup for that particular car.
 
Isn't the point of test driving a car to find a setup involve you actually driving? If you drive as poorly as the AI in B-Spec mode then...well that is bad. "Testing" a car in B-Spec mode won't get you anything as far as test data to tune the car for your own driving.
 
True because, i like carws that handel really out of control where as the AI may prefer a controlled set up so it wont help you any bit.
 
I would think that at best, using the B-Spec driver to test setups would only help you differentiate between a really bad setup and all the rest (average, good, superb).

However, it might be an interesting exercise to test extensive changes in equipment add-ons (stage 1 vs stage 3 turbo, stock suspension vs semi race suspension, etc.)
 
Yes. I'm still awaiting my Japanese copy of GT4, but I'd be tempted to use B-Spec for this sort of thing, if it's possible, to get an idea of how much time a B-Spec driver finds with the new parts I just bought, and therefore what level of improvement I might expect.

Another thing I haven't seen. Do B-Spec races have qualifying, and if so, does the B-Spec driver do the qualifying, or do you qualify and then switch to B-Spec for the race?
 
No, because if u watch the demo of the B-Spec mode the AI will only respond to what u tell it to do, so it wont be as accurate as if u were accualy driving the car
 
Rager
Another thing I haven't seen. Do B-Spec races have qualifying, and if so, does the B-Spec driver do the qualifying, or do you qualify and then switch to B-Spec for the race?
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Good question. I am not 100% sure, never tried. You can only qualify for series races, not single event races. When you do qualify you get dumped back to the main screen where you can pikc A or B spec, though I don't know if the game has something in it that won't allow you to go into B-spec if you have qualified. I'll give it a try tonight after the WRC, unless someone answers before.

You can enter a series and alternate A-B spec in each of the races.
 
Sure, but you could always let the race run without adjusting the race pace (leave it in default 3 and not touch the controller); you start off in last place anyway so it should ideally give you a run based purely on the specs of the car and whatever "habits" it might have picked up by your driving by this time...


srkillalott
No, because if u watch the demo of the B-Spec mode the AI will only respond to what u tell it to do, so it wont be as accurate as if u were accualy driving the car
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Yes, you can qualify the car & then let the B-spec AI drive the race.
Yes, in a series you can switch from A to B spec (& back)for what ever race you want.
 

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