B-spec strategy

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I came up with a nice strategy that would easily rank me up a few B-spec levels straight from LV 0.

When I first started playing GT5, I went straight for A-spec. I raced all the way to LV 13 and worked my way to two good cars. One of them was a prize car. I think it was an Acura DX9 Concept, something like that. Then I grinded until I got a 458 Italia.

Once I bought the Italia, I put that in the hands of my first B-Spec driver. I placed him in some of the easiest B-Spec events where he can drive fast compared to the slower cars, and not worry about fighting through traffic all the time. I heard that the game will simulate any B-spec driver that can make mistakes due to lack of mental strength and other abilities measured.
 
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I just did this too tonight...I gave him my Lambo and put him in the Sunday cup! :D Let me just say the competition didn't stand a chance and his mental strength appears to be at 100%. I think he's getting a little too cocky...would it be rude to tell him that it was the CAR that won him the race? lol :D
 
No need to go that far even, the Mugen Civic you win is more than enough to domante all the Sunday Cup, FF, Clubman cup and some others and he has less chance of spinning it out because it's front wheel drive.

I started my driver out with the Homell Berlinetta RS with 230 BHP and 850KG. He dominated the first race in the Sunday Cup, but kept spinning out at parts on the second race and came in 6th :( I managed to level him up with the third race and bought the max tyres I could for the event (I had sorts soft, and comfort, needed sports hard to avoid using the comfort) then he didn't lose anything else after that, but I realised using the Civic would have made spinning out much harder to do so I used it for the rest of the races. Although you'd still need to buy sports tyres for the Civic since it has racing standard.

Other than that, if his car is well above the rest, try to get him to overtake at the start then just maintain pace or decrease pace depending on how his temperament is. Keep infront of the other drivers if possible (otherwise his temperament won't go down) then increase pace once his temperament is neutral again. Increase pace every time his temperament starts going down... although this might only be possible once he gets to lvl 2-3.

Once you get to lvl 5 get a new driver!
 
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No need to go that far even, the Mugen Civic you win is more than enough to domante all the Sunday Cup, FF, Clubman cup and some others and he has less chance of spinning it out because it's front wheel drive.

I started my driver out with the Homell Berlinetta RS with 230 BHP and 850KG. He dominated the first race in the Sunday Cup, but kept spinning out at parts on the second race and came in 6th :( I managed to level him up with the third race and bought the max tyres I could for the event (I had sorts soft, and comfort, needed sports hard to avoid using the comfort) then he didn't lose anything else after that, but I realised using the Civic would have made spinning out much harder to do so I used it for the rest of the races. Although you'd still need to buy sports tyres for the Civic since it has racing standard.

Other than that, if his car is well above the rest, try to get him to overtake at the start then just maintain pace or decrease pace depending on how his temperament is. Keep infront of the other drivers if possible (otherwise his temperament won't go down) then increase pace once his temperament is neutral again. Increase pace every time his temperament starts going down... although this might only be possible once he gets to lvl 2-3.

Once you get to lvl 5 get a new driver!
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Why not keep going with the same guy?
 
I spent many of the beginning races babysitting him and keeping him between cool and hot. He pretty much always came in last or near to it. For the past couple of hours, though, I have set him off on races without even touching him and he's won all of them.
 
Currently I am in the middle of a B-spec race. My driver is level 6 now. I have a couple of tips that might help out everyone else.

I dont put my driver in cars that are crazy fast and completely outclass the other cars.
The cars I give him are no more than 30 horsepower more than the others.

Ill start by saying that i dont have to worry about my driver anymore really. Usually there are what 6 laps, give or take a couple every race? Plenty of time.

So this is what I have been doing. When the race starts wait for a lap, see what place he gets to then we can start attatcking the 1st place guy. Start with a speed up command in a proper place, last corner coming to strait, in a section of corners, or the best is right before the corner. When you select the command that wheel in the picture that depleats it represents how long your driver will do that order. So you have to time it accordingly. If you start to approach a car, then right after the speed up command is done select overtake. Usually this combination works quite well. Once in first tell your driver to maintain speed. after that go get some food because for me I almost always win. Your driver starts to cool down, and will drive quite well. If the other cars start to encroach on your driver just give him a speed up command maybe 4-5 times in a row. Remember he is now cool so he will speed up really well.

To each his own. Works for me verrrry well. My driver's record is 17 wins out of 19 races :)👍👍👍👍
 
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So far I'm finding the best strategy is way over powered cars.

Stoopid bob just did the fr challenge in a NASCAR ride lol. Still couldn even manage under a minute/lap on race 2 beginner. I don't think of it as cheating since no matter what ur still not driving. Just an easy way to get cash while ur doing something else.
 
Mine is using the chrome lambo on sport hard tires. Tons of power and 4WD for control=I can watch TV or netflix and check on him in 10 minutes.
 
One thing I've noticed is that he's very sensitive to tires, apparently regardless of what tire is actually on the car, he drives like the maximum allowed for the event is on the car, but just ends sliding all over the place.
 
i'v been recycling my drivers had about 7 - 8 now
seem to get more B-spec level exp for using a new driver
same driver same track get ya less an less each time
plus a new driver in level 10 race levels up pretty fast
 
I've been throwing my B-Spec guy into races with the Peugeot 205 T16. It seems to be the perfect Bob car. It is a bit tail-happy (which keeps Bob from understeering into everything like he was doing when I tried him out in a Renault Megane), but it is AWD so it doesn't cause any problems.
 
Keep him cool, that's the key. He drives faster when he's hot, but also makes more mistakes.

I also tap the overtake button right at the start - grid starts.

If you hit maintain pace, he just stays at his current pace, until the cooldown for command is over, then he'll either cool down and drive slower or get hot and drive faster.
It's not like in GT4, where each command is a set level pace. The pace by B-Spec is more gradual now and fluctuates depending on his cool - heat rating and your commands.

I think the faster his speed, the quicker his pace is when he's fully cool
 
I'm sure being fully cool is a bad thing. It means he's getting lazy and not concentrating enough... I try to keep mine in the middle.
 
I'd rather think of the "cool" side as a storage gauge. The more "cool" your driver is, the more time he has to get out of a "hot" situation.

Plus, Bob is just a pretty cool guy :)
 
Once they get past level 10, going into the red means more pace, not mistakes. Then he just starts taking some out of his mental and physical. In order for him to make mistakes he needs to get tired now, of course with a rare mistake here and there.

So the bar is just how hard he is trying not if he is hot or cold at that point(unrelated to the cool/hot characteristic), just that a new driver always tries too hard and falls off easy.
 
Anyone know what the Mental Strength bar is for? I know when the green strength bar starts to go down, A. Koks(my driver's actual name), tends to slow down regardless of whether he's hot or cool. But the blue mental strength bar never seems to go down.
 
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Keep him cool, that's the key. He drives faster when he's hot, but also makes more mistakes.

I also tap the overtake button right at the start - grid starts.

If you hit maintain pace, he just stays at his current pace, until the cooldown for command is over, then he'll either cool down and drive slower or get hot and drive faster.
It's not like in GT4, where each command is a set level pace. The pace by B-Spec is more gradual now and fluctuates depending on his cool - heat rating and your commands.

I think the faster his speed, the quicker his pace is when he's fully cool
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I've had some problems telling him to overtake at the start lately so I don't do it anymore. If his car is a fair bit more powerful he will just drive past them on the outside... if you tell him to overtake, he'll pick out the car in front of him and move side to side looking for an opening.

I did a race telling him to overtake and he only got from 7th to 3rd, then got stressed and span out because the car isn't the easiest for someone of his lack of ability (Lightened 580hp Maserati Granturismo S). Anyway he spun out on the second lap and waited for all cars to pass before rejoining = me quitting the race :p

So I tried again and just told him to increase pace. Well maybe it was just luck, but he got into first straight away, was right in the red but I told him to maintain pace, then decrease pace.. he easily stayed in front and I just kept telling him to increase pace when he got too much in the cool.
 
Well, B-Spec is officially impossible unless you have a car that's miles ahead of the competition. How many of you have managed better than last place in the Vitz cup? Watching my driver, it's pretty funny. He brakes after every apex. No exit speed whatsoever.
 
Omnis
Well, B-Spec is officially impossible unless you have a car that's miles ahead of the competition. How many of you have managed better than last place in the Vitz cup? Watching my driver, it's pretty funny. He brakes after every apex. No exit speed whatsoever.
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I seriously almost fell off my chair laughing. It's so true.

He brakes EVERYWHERE and I'm sitting here going "WHAT THE HELL, MAN?!"
 
I think mental strenght is for long lasting fights.(that you won't make too much mistakes under pressure)

My driver with Hommel has won sunday cup and world compact cup. Make sure that you at least have best tires for each race as you can not adjust TC for B-spec cars.
 
I don´t understand the whole B spec. I thought it was for people like me, that don´t have 24/7 time to spend on this game. Now after a few races in the B spec I recognized, that you have to sit there and give Bob orders and watch him drive, what is very boring. Puls he didn´t manage to win the second SCup race with a full tuned FTO. So for me this mode is useless. BUT I read, that you can only drive the 24 endurance races with 3 other B-spec drivers. I don´t know if this is true but it would be a shame.
 
Maybe I have missed it somewhere, but wheres the button to tell your B-Spec driver to pit?.
 
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Maybe I have missed it somewhere, but wheres the button to tell your B-Spec driver to pit?.
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that option only comes up on races long enough to require pit stops.
up to the professional level, i'm only hitting 10 lap races on short courses. most are 6 laps. no need for a pit stop in 6 laps.


as far as using overpowered cars, remember, the more your guy fights for position, the more he learns... whether he wins or not. you will notice significant gains in experience using cars similar to the ones the AI is using.

someone not named damaged_case should do a big ol' write up on how to properly drive and level the B-Spec driver and see if it can be pinned. there seems to be a lot of questions regarding the matter and i'm seeing a few misconceptions as well.
 
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He brakes EVERYWHERE and I'm sitting here going "WHAT THE HELL, MAN?!"
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If you think that's bad, wait until they spin out and then wait for the entire field to pass by before rejoining the race. You can issue the "Pick up the Pace" command all you want, they won't budge. Nothing like going from 1st to 12th when your guy could have rejoined safely in 2nd (happened to me twice at Monza).


As for the whole HOT/COLD thing, I suggest ignoring it for the most part and watching the Live Timing screen instead. Sometimes a cold driver will post the fastest lap of the race, sometimes they'll be 4-5 seconds slower than the guy directly behind them. It's really inconsistent. I order my driver to pick up the pace at faster sections when he's losing time in certain sectors/laps and leave him alone when he seems to have things under control. This approach seems to prevent surprise AI comebacks which I originally thought were rubberband AI BS at work.
 
Took the Motul Civic and has won 2 of his races so far. Thanks, didn't even think of using it for this.
 
Best Car is my Lancia Delta HF, Moderate engine tuning to 245hp and full weight reduction.
Its AWD so no under/over steer, and my driver always manages to do some nice 4 wheel drifts.
I've tried other cars with ALOT of HP and he is NEVER able to handle it well =(
 
If I choose to work toward a Motul Civic, should I soup-up this vehicle before I put my only B-spec driver behind the wheel?!
 

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