B-spec Tips and Infos

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And I have a question for B-Spec and pitting. Does the B-Spec driver pit one or two laps before his fuel is empty, or will he let it run all the way down to empty, and then limp back to the pits (the thought of that happening on the nurburgring is not a very pleasant one!). And of course, this is all assuming that his fuel will run out before his tires turn red.

And also, if you leave B-Spec mode alone and it pits, will the driver just sit in the pit stall since you're not there to hit ok on the pit menu, or will the menu just cancel as soon as he reaches the pit stall?
 
You lose a couple seconds if you don't clear off the pit menu yourself.

Driver pits whether he needs fuel, tires or both. Your B-Spec driver won't run out of fuel.

Part of the key to B-Spec success is building a car that your B-Spec driver can drive well. Putting the right tires on so that they wear evenly helps a lot. On some cars, raising the brake levels helps tremendously (seeing your driver plow off into the grass constantly? Give him stronger brakes). Giving your low experience driver a little ASM when he's running the 'ring will prevent spinouts when he goes boneheaded and tries to pass on the grass.

Your driver won't tell you what's wrong with the car, but if you watch him lap, you can tune the car to help him drive cleaner laps.
 
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Part of the key to B-Spec success is building a car that your B-Spec driver can drive well. Putting the right tires on so that they wear evenly helps a lot. On some cars, raising the brake levels helps tremendously (seeing your driver plow off into the grass constantly? Give him stronger brakes). Giving your low experience driver a little ASM when he's running the 'ring will prevent spinouts when he goes boneheaded and tries to pass on the grass.

Your driver won't tell you what's wrong with the car, but if you watch him lap, you can tune the car to help him drive cleaner laps.
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This is absolutely true... I never put my B Spec driver into a car that is setup in such a way that is harder to drive than I can handle myself. I never use stability control, but on some of the higher powered cars, I sometimes use trction control. I keep it on when the B Spec driver runs. It helps conserve tires in the longer races.
 
You know something, B-Spec is really nice when you have a picture-in-picture TV. You can keep an eye on your progress and it doesn't prevent you from doing other things. It's easy to tell when you need to speed the race back up after a pit stop.
 
That's why I say that even though you're in B-Spec, you're still technically in the race. Of course, when you're at a point where you can just shoot the breeze after leading for a huge margin, if you want to fast-forward time, you can. Only as long as you have an advantage. Just keep that Overtake command on, especially in longer races or if you have the best car out of any of them. Push when you have to, use Fast when you have to. And when leading, Steady is the way to go. But if your B-Spec racer spins out or something and someone passed you, it's time to get aggressive. Push your way back to P1.

There is still strategy in B-Spec mode. Winning still isn't THAT easy.
 
I have anecdotal evidence that coaching helps. I ran Le Mans last night in B-Spec mode and watched my driver. After he spun off in a few places I reduced the pace settings as he approached those areas. He seemed to learn a little and made fewer mistakes, certainly enough to get him up to P1.

I still haven’t managed to convince him not to ram other drivers before passing them!

The most frustrating part is to watch him go into the gravel, spin the car then drive back across the track into the opposite wall, then reverse up, try and turn, get it wrong hit another wall…….

I also agree that cars which are easier for me to drive are easier for the ‘robot’ to drive, he seems incapable to adapt to anything which needs a bit of TLC for a good lap.
 
Has anyone found the Mulsanne straight bug? In B-spec the car decides to steer itself left or right into the barrier until the car almost stops.
 
I now have a B-Spec total of 8090, Machine skill 98, Course skill 81, battle skill 79.
I't doesn seem to improve from here.
I found out that with a rookie B-spec driver, taking a crappy car to the nurburgring and competing with better cars in B-spec mode boosted the skills and B-spec total, but not anymore. I then took the formula1 to a 24h endurance in B-spec. Not a single point! :grumpy:

I presume the course skill will improve when I race courses in B-spec I haven't raced before. For battle skill I guess the idea is that passing other cars many times in a race (B-spec driver = AI drivers) would boost this skill.

Any comments on these thoughts? Does the skill stop at 100 (%?)
 
maki
What exactly is the battle level?
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Battle level is how your driver competes with the other cars in a pack. From what I've read, racing on the technical courses (ex.: Opera) helps to improve that. I haven't tested it yet, but I would imagine racing the smaller tracks with a car as close in power as the opponents as possible, would also help with that (since, theoretically, you'd stay in the pack longer).
 
TIP:
1. When you are racing in the Beginner or Professional hall, put any race you would like into B-Spec mode. Then, put it into 5 (Push) and press triangle (Overtake/pass a car) when it is counting down (or when it is doing the lap warm up before the start) to start the race. After the race has started, go into the Racing monitor (R1) and put it into x3 fast-forward mode (press L1 + right or left to change the speed). If you were racing in the Beginner Events Hall, then you will be done in about 1-2 minutes because the most laps you can do in beginner is 4. In Professional Events Hall, however, it will take you longer depending on what kind of race you are doing. I do believe that it could take you 5-7 minutes at the most. P. S. You have to have a fast car to do this.
 
Here are my B-spec observations:

There is a limit to how much your B-spec driver can learn from one car on one track. If you keep racing the same track with the same car for easy money, he will stop improving at some point. Give him a different car and a different track and progress should be made again. If he doesn't improve any more, try a layout he doesn't usually race (i.e. a Ruf - RR) and he might find room for improvement there. Wether this helps his skill in non-RR cars is not sure, but it might.

A more powerful car will earn him more skill than a suzuki cappucino in a given race. If you find your driver hits a ceiling, buy a fast car, tune it to ludicrous output and have him race that for a while.

LET HIM LOSE. The fastest way to have your driver improve is give him a challenge he can't take. When my driver had 2k skill points, I gave him the 642bhp audi le mans quattro concept and let him do a championship. He finished 5th or 6th in every race, but gained almost 3000 skill in the process. So if you gave him that badass tvr with 600 bhp and he sticks it in the gravel trap in every race, don't abort the race. Let him suffer, and he'll be a lot better when he crosses the finish line.
 
Is there any particualr reason why on the high speed tracks that the B-Spec driver won't reach the same top speed as I do when I setup the car?

Say for instance I can reach a top speed of 235Mph on that sarthe ii track, but my B-spec driver only reaches 218mph using the same car on level 5.

Why is that?
 
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Is there any particualr reason why on the high speed tracks that the B-Spec driver won't reach the same top speed as I do when I setup the car?

Say for instance I can reach a top speed of 235Mph on that sarthe ii track, but my B-spec driver only reaches 218mph using the same car on level 5.

Why is that?
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He's not a maniac :lol: jk
 

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