Does the AI even conform to the car specs?

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I have been grinding Indy in the American Championship B-Spec with my Chaparral 2J. I choose it based on it's HP to KG ratio.
Most of the time, the cars that would finish in 2nd and 3rd would be Ford GT 40 Race cars (blue and orange Gulf livery).
So I decided to see how good that car actually was.
I went to my garage and picked mine up. I went to the maintenance and did all the rebuilds there. I then went to the upgrade shop and bought every upgrade. I then setup the aero, tranny, and suspension appropriate for Indy.
At this point I checked the specs and I couldn't see how this car was going to hang with the 2J I had been running.
The 2J has 809 HP and weighs 821 KG.
The GT has 554 HP and weighs 998 KG.
A power to weight advantage of .98 to .55 for the 2J.
But I went ahead and ran the race, giving Bob the same type of instruction I always do for this race.
As I expected, he finished 8th. He always finished 1st in the 2J.
So now the million dollar question is: How do the AI finish 2nd and 3rd in GT? I'm beginning to think their cars are not limited to the actual car specs. Maybe they just slap whatever body they feel on the AI cars and don't actually take it's ability into consideration. Any other possible explanation?
 
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At this point I checked the specs and I couldn't see how this car was going to hang with the 2J I had been running.
The 2J has 809 HP and weighs 821 KG.
The GT has 554 HP and weighs 998 KG....
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When you say you checked the specs, are you checking them in the "typical competition" menu, just before entering the race?

Or are you checking them in your garage?

Perhaps the Ford GT LM Race Car is not stock in the race?

Respectfully,
GTsail
 
Hehe I was just wondering that about my Bob's actually. I just got my FGT and tried out the race at Fuji with it(a few times, messing with my setup etc.)

Now here is where it got interesting. I set the max gear to 380 for Fuji and I was never able to peg the limiter(as intended) Yet Bob can have it pegged before the start finish line??

Bob's are usually dumb as dirt and need to be "Bobbysat" now he is making me look bad? I mean he is level 20 but still a little odd he can get more out of the car then I can when it is usually the opposite and you end up spending shedloads upgrading a car, you in the same series can dominate with and he ends up driving like a little old lady...

Edit: It seems at the time it was because he was drafting the car in 1st, he was in 2nd. But he sure can drive that FGT... I need to turn some serious practice laps with it I think...
 
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AI cars do infact have upgrades, mid race you can hear and see that they upgraded exhausts as well as potentially other unnoticeable mods.
 
I've been wondering about this as well, I know they can have upgrades. But there always seems to be one or 2 a.i.s who are much faster than they should be.

I would LOVE for this game to be open source, it would help with some of the head scratchers for sure.
 
I'm assuming that your driver is not used to the performance of your car. Maybe the driver needs to be of a higher level for him to be able to fully utilize the car now that it's been upgraded? In real life, having a car that's got marginal horsepower is sometimes easier to drive than a car with gobs of it.
 
I have the GT LM... it has 778BHP (or something similar) and i have not done all the upgrades... maybe you modded the wrong GT..?
 
To answer the OP, no. In nearly all the races that I've done (only a couple of exceptions), the AI basically has massively upgraded cars like in the infamous Opel Speedster cup in GT4. It is just another one of PD's questionable changes from GT4 to GT5.
 

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