Can someone help me with the F1 championship?

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I am currently running the F1 championship in an F686/M. I am on the fourth race, Superspeedway. I have beaten the last three races with ease, but for some reason I cannot win this one. I have a car that is fast enough to keep up with the other cars, but I always lose ground after pit stops, and I am too far behind to catch up. Does anyone have any tips on what lap I should pit on so I don't fall too far back? I have tried pitting a lap before the leader, the same lap as the leader, and even a lap after the leader, and none have worked.
 
The F686/M has the speed advantage over any other car on the track so even if you pit with the leader you should be able to keep up. Can you go into detail about what competition you are up against and on which laps they and you are pitting?

Edit: Also if you could explain where exactly you are falling behind (while you are in the pits or while you are on the track?) it would be helpful.
 
I am competing against an F094/H, F687/S, another F686/M, and that is all I can think of for now. The first two are the ones I have trouble beating in this race. I believe the leader in this race, who is usually the F094/H, pits every nine laps. I have tried to win this race three times, and my best finish is fourth. The F094/H seems to be able to go longer on a set of tires than I can, which is the main problem. My tires do not seem to last as long as his do. I fall behind when I am in the pits.
 
I'm afraid I don't exactly remember how that race played out for me, but I did use the F686/M. I seem to remember that they would pit at stranger intervals and very quickly it became hard to tell who was on the lead lap and who was not. There is a strategy guide for the Formula GT: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/gran_turismo_3_formula_gt.txt

I glanced at it and it says to use the walls to force your car into the turn, which I think is close to cheating, but it may help you get some speed. My best suggestion to you is that pit strategy is the key. Make sure you plan your pits so that you pit as few times as possible, because with pit road as long as it is on Super Speedway, you will lose a lot of time. For example, if the race is 50 laps and you can go say 9 laps on a set of tires, that will bring you to 45 only, so you may want to stretch it out to 10 laps and suffer the slight loss of lap time. You have to do the math quickly in your head and figure out the best time. Sorry I couldn't be any more help.
 
I think I will do what you said and stay out longer. I think that will be the only way I'll win it. I don't like to cheat, either, so I am not going to try the wall riding trick!
 
Hmm... This is probably the easiest race of the Formula GT, especially with the F686/M. There are two ways to go about it -- pit on 8 / 16 / 24 / 32 / 41, or else don't pit at all. You will get a very slightly better time by not pitting, but you also run the risk of accidental contact with the AI with red tires, which will usually spin you out completely and lose a lot of time.

The most important thing is your car settings, though. Turn downforce up to max and make sure TCS and ASM are both at zero, and you won't have to brake at all. Widen out the tramsission to auto setting 39 or 40. The AI always has to slow down for the small end of Super Speedway. If you don't, you'll beat every AI car by at least 3 laps.

If you go 8 laps without pitting, you'll have to slow down to about 160 mph for the small end of the track.
 
Thanks for your help guys. I beat it yesterday by staying out a lap longer than them on pit stops. In fact, I didn't even have to pit on the last set of pit stops because I stayed out longer on the last one!
 
The two biggest factors in racing in are tyre preservation vs low lap times. There is a fine balance and one I used to achieve by practicing. What I've found out is a fast SMOOTH lap will not chew your tyres up as much as chucking the car around the track yet the difference in lap times is minimal and tyre damage is reduced dramaticlly.
As an example on Seattle I was able to achieve 9 full laps or pitting on at the end of the 9th lap. Entering the pits just as the rear tyres started to turn light red. My lap times were between high 1:11's to low 1:13's. Push so I was a second on average quicker and I would have to come in 2-3 laps earlier. At that pace you should be able to create a lead large enough to come into the pits, and get back out without surrendering the lead :)
 
RazorGTR:
9 laps is a bit much for Seattle in the Formula GT, and just what kind of a pit schedule are you talking about? Seattle is 40 laps. I did it yesterday and pitted on 8 / 16 / 24 / 32. Pitting after 9 is a bit silly, since you'll still have to pit 4 times. Also, it's really easy to spin on that big right going into the box turns if your back tires are red.

I was running 1:11's with dirty oil and an old engine, and I won by 2 laps, so I guess it's not much of an issue anyway.
 
I was only making an example. Pitting is more than just coming in at a pre-determined lap. For example if you decided to pit just after passing another car mid lap, you will be stuck behind that car when you come out again. Sometimes waiting that extra lap will get you in and back out infront of that car. That can make a huge impact on your lines, and whether or not you get bumped, or ,knocked about up onto the ripple strips with also quicken's tyre damage.

I have gotten 11 laps running mid 13's but you have to be so careful not to hit the ripple strips, spin the wheels at the top of the stair case, up the stair case, and over the RR tracks at the bottom of the long dog leg straight. By doing that you only pit 3 times

As you said it is not much of issue, just using that as a example. BTW that F1 (001) I've used has over 7,500k's on it so it is an old hat car.
 

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