B spec bob gets slower during race

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Okay, so I've let our binary friend bob race the 24h la Sarthe II endurance.

I let him roll my sauber mercedes C9 which eleminated all competition to begin with. He was running 3:10 laps, where the other cars would run 3:20 or something like that, but 12 hours into the race, he sucks. I've slowed the pace down, but he still keeps crashing on the long straight. He can now do 3:30 if he's lucky.

I've thought of some reasons, and I could only get to this conclussion:
- The chassis has got warped during the race

Is this correct? Or is it something that I can correct? I'm sure I didn't change anything in the pitstop configuration.

It's a shame, cause he was winning the race
 
Okay, so I studied it a bit further. It seems that he, on long straights, gets some kind of spasms :P He drives into the wall, and continues to pull towards it, until he reaches 30 km/h or something, then he accellerates again. Pathetic behaviour
 
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Okay, so I studied it a bit further. It seems that he, on long straights, gets some kind of spasms :P He drives into the wall, and continues to pull towards it, until he reaches 30 km/h or something, then he accellerates again. Pathetic behaviour
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You must have the PAL version. . . . . . I do! :yuck:
This is the famous (infamous) glitch that the PAL 'Bob' suffers on the Mulsanne straight.
When I did the 24hr, Bob was driving a 787B, and he would thump the wall every 12-14 laps or so and towards the end of the race it was every 6 or 8 laps, but he still won by about 30 seconds.
I tried many different cars with many different setups before settling with the 787B (they all did about the same in Bobs hands :crazy: ), the only thing I found was that towards the end of the race, if I turned the overtake command off on the straight, he didnt seem to crash it as often.
 
Well, that sucks :indiff: ..

Anyway, this morning he was crashing about every lap, and sometimes even spinning around a couple o times. Even though he had a 2 lap lead over the 2nd car to begin with, he ended on 6th position. He sure knows how to mess things up :crazy:

The car seemt to shake a lot before the crashes. Do you think it's a stability issue? Or just a bug?

And yes, I have the pal version :)
 
Thats a good question! I think its a bit of both.

I found personally, and have also read in other threads, that by softening the spring rate slightly, and raising the ride height does help, especially as the race gets longer but I personally like to throw a bit of negative toe to the rear of my cars to help with the cornering - bit of a no no in a le mans enduro! (makes the car too twitchy on the straight, and may add to bobs woe's) :crazy:

Another thing I found, which may sound strange, but the closer bob got to putting a lap on 2nd and 3rd places, the more he stuffed up?!?! :dunce:
 
the best solution to this that i have found if you are racing on a track with bob hitting a walll after a long straight is to watch him race a couple of laps until he gets to first place. After this set him down to 2 or 3 and set "overtake" to off. watch him for a couple more laps to assure his position. Then smoke a joint and watch it on the big screen.
 
Thanks for all the great solutions. Too bad I can't check them out, cause GT4 just decided to corrupt the game data.
 
i really really dislike how the real race cars suffer from chassis warping.

but what sucks even more is that B-spec like us suffers from this where the AI doesnt. now i wouldn't mind chassis warp if it effected the AI do but it doesn't.

the only solution is to use the F1 car but then it spanks the feild which doesn;t really matter because its b-spec.

i hope in gt5 you have the abilty to choose a b-spec guy with different driving styles. none of this fast in, slow out and eat the front tyre's.

i've been wanting to get that off my chest for awhile now sorry.
chris
 

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