Bspec pit looping Suzuka 1000km wet

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I'm watching my bspec race right now @ 134/172 and its raining all cars are on intermediate tires, but my bspec guy keeps pitting lap after lap. wtf I try to cancel it then the beginning of the next lap the P comes up again. Tires are full, gas is full, over 90% strength, not sure whats up?

I'm using the FGT and 20+ laps ahead and have grinded it like 3-4 times all ready always placing first (never watched though) and wonder if its a bug now, or always been this way. Imeadiately after leaving the pits they want to pit, and are sliding all over the track. I've tried rain tires and no avail.
 
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Pit strategy box - bottom right of screen, have you changed the setttings??

Top setting should be on 0, or it's the tyres, he's trying to pit because the wrong tyres are on or he thinks the wrong tyres are on.
 
I think I did enduce a bug. I left it with 0 strength in the pit strategy (usually do 10%) and coming back to the race, saw my guy had 0 strength and changed the strategy, and ever since has been pitting every lap. (changing drivers too).

I've tried multiple things with the pit strategy and changing tires etc, all hasn't helped.. only another ~25 laps to go thank goodness though.
 
This messed me up the first time also.

Keep the driver strength at zero, run soft racing tires (which work fine in the rain), and the game will change the tires at some point automatically. First to intermediate, then to rain, and then back again to soft at some point.

I saw that it was raining and changed tires only to have the car want to pit again. Let the game decide. Also by putting your driver at 10% makes him pit sooner than he needs to, and soon all the drivers run out of strength and will only do a couple of laps, or even one, before pitting again. Leaving it at 0 gives the other drivers more time before their stint in the car and they retain more strength.

Edit: I was incorrect. Just ran the 24 hr Lemans and when returning to regular race tires after the rain the game put racing hard tires on. Not soft as I thought it would.
 
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Trying it for the first time. Two drivers (level 29 & 30) starting on rain tires. Fine. They get to over a lap ahead and then the rain eases. They now want to run on Racing: Hard tires:ouch: Slip-sliding all over the track and over a lap DOWN after 37 laps. I pit him in and put intermediates on. Great. Now lapping way faster than anyone else, but they keep on wanting to pit and put the hard tires on again. Got to go out now, so I expect to lose by many laps.
 
I came across this too, I made a comment about it on the rain vs intermediate thread. It's definitely a bug or glitch of some kind.
I'll just copy and paste what I said:

I had this same thing happen the other day, it drove me mad. B-spec Suzuka 1000km, it was a wet race and I checked every now and then to see how it was going, it was fine for the first 130 laps or so, then I checked and Bob was on the first corner, doing donuts along with 5 other AI cars. It was still raining and he had racing hard tyres on, so I told him to pit. Eventually he got to the pits after taking about 5mins drifting and spinning around the track. I had to tell him to put on rain tyres as he was pitting, because if I put it in the pit strategy, he would still put on race hards. Bob and the AI were trying to drive like it was dry, on a wet surface, because even with the rain or intermediate tyres Bob was still likely to spin out a few times. The AI were still on slicks and just hitting the limiter spinning and drifting. I had to stay and stop bob from pitting for the wrong tyres every lap, for the rest of the race. The race took 7hrs 30mins in the FGT
 
Weird. I ran that race today in B spec and the race started dry and I had them run racing soft tires. I left for three hours and when I came back they were running racing intermediates and they were 37 laps up.
 
Since this was brought back up, after the tires wore out he went back to pit looping.. I just let it go since was so far ahead.

The track was drying and must of been an in between the AI's programming on when to switch (some parts were wetter then others).
 
This is still happening after the 1.06 patch; I'm currently watching my Bob F. Wolff as he's pitting in to change to racing softs again, when it's quite clearly hammering it down. I'm not certain, but I actually think it's a weather glitch - I can see the falling rain element, but there's no spray off the tyres, and seemingly no impact on the handling of the FGT. Other cars on the track have their wipers going. Does anyone know if this is occuring in other races, or is it specifically the Suzuka Weather track (or weather tracks in general)?

[Edit] Minor spray occuring now, but still no impact on the handling of the car. Waiting to see if Bob F. Wolff will pit in to change tyres as it gets worse - I'm leaving the pit strategy options set to Racing Softs.

[Edit 2] Bob F. Wolff has just changed to Racing Intermediates of his own accord. So it seems the Driver AI overrides the managers choice of tyres, meaning that the tyre options in the pit strategy menu hold as much weight as a Con-Dem election pledge.
 
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I left this one running and thank crap I looked in at around 136, cos the rain had stopped and all drivers were convinced they could hack it on slicks when it was obvious inters were the choice. I had to override my Bob for about 10 laps until the track dried - inconvenient, since I was on my way out at the time.

Incidentally, watch out for the 10% strength thing. When I did the 9 hours at T-suck-uba, at the end, my Bobs were pitting after every lap as they weren't recovering enough (or at all) between stints. Luckily I'd used a grossly overspecced car and was several laps ahead, otherwise who knows what might have happened. And the race was over 500 laps!

PS anyone who has done either of these races in A spec, has to be a dedicated masochist!
 
It's a real pain when this happens.

It seems to be when one side of the circuit is slick>intermediate and the other side is full wet. Bob has a sort of schizophrenic tyre-desire episode...
 
Similar thing happened to me in the 24 hours of le mans b spec. Even the other drivers would pit for no apparent reason and put the same tyres on! It was also raining by the way.
 

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