Endurance race time limit

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Can someone explain to me how the time limit endurance races work? I was driving the 4hours Nürburgring Type V, and while I was in first place the whole time I did not win. I was about 1 and a half minute in the next lap when the timer reaced zero and I started losing places without being overtaken by another car.

Does the race only finish when the timer has reached zero and you pass the finish line?

If so, does this mean I will have to race much slower so I don't get to far ahead?
 
ThaSyn
Can someone explain to me how the time limit endurance races work? I was driving the 4hours Nürburgring Type V, and while I was in first place the whole time I did not win.

Does the race only finish when the timer has reached zero and you pass the finish line?

If so, does this mean I will have to race much slower so I don't get to far ahead?
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4 hours + the end of the lap you are on.
 
Odd?
After you reach 4 hours, you are supposed to run 1 more lap and then the race is over. I think?

Never heard of this
 
You have to finish the current lap in order to complete the race in a time-based endurance race :)
 
I see, will have to race much slower then. Was doing hot laps all the time in my honda S2000 AEM. Lucky me that I suspended the race and can load it again.
 
ThaSyn
I see, will have to race much slower then. Was doing hot laps all the time in my honda S2000 AEM
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Why do you have to be slower? You just need to complete the lap you're in when the timer goes to zero
 
But why did I lose places then? No car overtook mine and all of a sudden I was in 10th place. Very weird:scared:
 
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But why did I lose places then? No car overtook mine and all of a sudden I was in 10th place. Very weird:scared:
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At the end of the race the game should sort the classification in the correct order... Did you finish your race and had the final standings on the screen?
 
Andy89
At the end of the race the game should sort the classification in the correct order... Did you finish your race and had the final standings on the screen?
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Nope, I quit. Will try again tomorrow. Thought I'd gather some intel first:dunce:
 
Quitting instead of just finishing one more lap to collect whatever winnings you earned(and then finding out that you did indeed win), that's a new one. If you're not level 40, the XP gain would have been worth it even if you weren't first.

But yes, you'd have been fine if you had just finished the lap. At least you have a suspend saved. The end-of-race scoring for the timed races is quite screwed up in GT5, but it only ever cheats in your favor.
 
I honestly have no idea how it works either. In the 4h roadster race I put my car aside as I was multiple laps ahead, but apparently I waited a bit too long and when I came back I noticed I was 4th or something and the 4 hours were over. Panicking that I had just wasted 4 hours of my life I finished the race (not being first), yet I got gold (fortunately).

Morgoth_666
The end-of-race scoring for the timed races is quite screwed up in GT5, but it only ever cheats in your favor.
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Well, looks like that's the answer.
 
Umm... Wow. There's two issues here.

First, cars that have finished are ranked higher than cars than haven't if they have completed the same number of laps. The order changes as cars then finish. If you start your 27th lap before the timer expires, you have completed 26 laps. If an AI car then finishes its 26th lap after the timer expires, it has completed 26 laps and finished. It will be ranked ahead of you until you finish - then you'll have completed 27 laps and finished and be ranked ahead of it.

This is exploitable by the player, but not the AI - you can allow the AI to start a lap it will not finish within the 4/9/24 hours, wait for the timer to expire and then cross the line to finish behind it, but you'll be ranked ahead of it temporarily. You can then "X" through the screens quickly to be given 1st place credit, credits and XP.

The second issue is the "Time Limit" which appears in the bottom-right corner with around an hour to go to the end of an endurance race and counts down from 59:59. Many people have noticed that, in the longer timed endurance races (9/24 hours), it doesn't tally with the actual length of time the endurance race is supposed to last. What it appears to do (I can't say for sure) is count down what it predicts to be the end of the leader's last possible completed lap within the time allotted. What I'd then guess is that it does this because PD have accounted for 24 hour race tradition where only the second-last lap is a full speed racing lap, with the last lap (the lap on which the full race length expires) being a lap of honour - a lap of honour after the time on an 8/14 mile race track is unfeasible - allowing for the drivers to thank the marshalls and all those pretty photos of teams' cars crossing the line together. This has happened at the real Le Mans for sixty years - with the occasional rare exception, like 2011 (the first, full-pace last lap for forty years), where the lead cars are so close to each other that the last lap can make a difference.

Which is pretty neat when you think about it.
 
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