F1 race

[WhIteDrAgOn]

Can someone give me some help on beating the F1 race in professional league, after the 10th lap, I start losing it, I'm driving the 90/s

 

[DQuaN]

Practice is the only thing you can do. Get those lap times down and keep them consistant. A little help might be to make sure you have clean oil but that will only benefit you for the first couple of races. Also, make sure that you have an efficient pit strategy worked out (although I just went in when they were deep orange!).

 

[Duke]

Try a search for "formula" and see what turns up.

The F090/S is a great handling car, but you are at a power disadvantage compared to all the other F1 cars. You may want to try the F094/S or /H (the /H is slightly slower, but I successfully used it, and I'm not a fast driver).

You're going to have to pit more frequently than the AI, and make it up on time. A couple races are tough - Laguna, Apricot Hill, among others. I recommend pre-running Laguna to guarantee a win, then being satisfied with 2nd during the series. Also pre-win the Test Course in the Escudo or whatever you used for the "Like The Wind" race, and skip it during the series to keep oil wear off of your car.

Last but not least, I recommend reducing the amount of toe out the car is set with stock. It will make the car a little less twitchy, and it will improve your rear tire wear, maybe allowing you to stretch your pit schedule or at the least not be on dead tires every time you do come in.

 

[NXS]

On most races pit on lap 7,14,21 etc.
On a 50 lap race you may need to either pit on lap 8 then lap15,22,29. You will only need to do this once or, if possible make your tires last 8 laps on the final run.

Besides setup(which I prefered toe out for the quicker response,ASM@00 and TCS@ 01) that was the best advantage I found. 👍

a good car setup will piviot slightly(turn sharper) both when you release the accelerator(quickly) and when max power is applied. Also a very small amount of rear brake bias will help with the turn in and during emergency situations.

Hope that helps!

 

[RX-7_FC_DrIfteR]

i say tweak the gear ratios, so that u have the upper hand, even through u take a bad line

 

[Entroper]

Your best bet is not to use the F090/S, as it's definitely one of the slower F1 cars. At Seattle, the first place car kept pulling away from me lap after lap, even when I was driving very well. It is, unfortunately, the easiest F1 car to obtain, probably on purpose.

 

[3rdgenracerX]

Learn the car more. Nothing beats seat time in any car. Once you get good at driving hard into corners then you will beat the bad AI since on most tracks they mess up every lap in the same spot.

Your at the first race correct? Midfield, the ai usually doesnt take turn 1 properly and end up braking very hard to stay on track in turn 2. Go in slower to turn 1 than the AI does. Turn 6 "the big long lefty after the corssover tunel. The AI yet again goes into this corner way to fast leading them to brake hard on the exit. Turn 9 the hairpin tunel, brake early and exit the corner HARD. The AI brakes well beyond the normal brake point leading them to enter way to hot and having to slow down. Gettin a good blast out of the haripin will mean you will be pulling away from the higher HP'ed cars since you didnt have to slow down to 20 mph at the exit of the corner.

The F090/s is a fun car to drive. Only 100 less hp than the next worst hp'ed car, but your in the 2nd/3rd best handeling car out their.

On my race record pace in a F094/s I was pitting every 6 laps. The fornt tires went red on the pit in lap.

 

[NoQuarter]

FWIW, the F090/s is quite capable of sweeping this series, including the Test Course race. One merely needs to set the car up for good drafting (extending the Final Drive so that one can get a boost beyond the HP capabilities of the car) and good top speed (minimum down force and "0" toe & camber).

Hitch a ride behind the top AI (usually the F094/s) and draft behind him, pitting with him, for the entire race. On the last couple of laps, practice your "slingshot" on Turn 4, tuck back in behind him when he repasses you on the main straight, then on the last lap, blow by him for the win. This is probably the only "interesting" Test Course race in GT3.

At the rest of the races, one should be able to lap the lead AI in relativally easy victories.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

I've found that the first race (Midfield), in the 90, was the easiest of the series. I left my aggressive toe-out settings in place and didn't push into the bright red of the tires and still nearly lapped the entire grid twice (only the second place car wasn't). Laguna and Seattle were the most difficult for me, especially Laguna, since it's probably my most ran course, I like to think I'm pretty comfortable there. Seattle was tough because I was tapped into a wall on the first lap and decided to be nice and wait for the pack to pass me.

As for the test course... you could just not pit. That's what I did.

 

[Smallhorses]

Ok, on my current memory card, I have all 6 F1 (NTSC) cars with over 900 miles each that have run the full 10 race distance of Formula GT in one shot each and each one has won the series, some with 8 victories, some with 9, but mostly 10 out of 10.
Each one entered the race series without oil changes. For the most part with practice its possible to win all the races in any given car. However, the races which you struggle to beat the AI in tend to be the Superspeedway and Test Course, especially in the F090/S because of the lesser HP. The F090/S is one of the most rewarding drives of the F1 fleet, as many people have already mentioned.

My biggest tip for beating the F1, as in F1 real life, is to treat every track differently. You'll need an entirely different downforce and gear ratio setting for each track, don't expect your test course setup to work well at Cote D'azur etc etc.
Take an experimental qualifiying lap after you make a change to your setup, to ensure that you're just about hitting the redline in 6th gear at the end of the longest straight on a particular track. If you're on an oval course use very little downforce, for Cote D'azur & Seattle use lots of downforce and for a track with a mix of tight corners and long flowing bends & straights use a little less than 1/2 downforce.
I find that a rearward brake bias helps, and I have not used any ASM or TCS for a long while now, although if its your 1st attempt at Formula GT, a couple of points on each won't hurt.

I'm by no means a "fast" F1 driver, I finished Cote D'azur in the F094/S last night, my fastest lap was 1'13.190 which is 10 or 12s slower than the fastest times by racers like 3rdgenracerx, (believe anything this guy says about GT3 F1 racing, 'cos he's probably right!) but I still finished 4 laps ahead of the 2nd placed F094/S.

Search through GTPlanet for setups for F1 cars, and most of all be patient. You really need to know your circuits and racing lines to be competitive in F1, a single spin can cost you a race here, so be confident that you can run 25 or more error-free laps. Spend some time in arcade mode free-run until you've refined the technique, then those AI F1s won't seem much of a challenge at all! (Except while you're lapping them!)

 

[Heihachi]

Be smooth to save your tires. Pit strategies are everything in the long F1 races.

 

[Nismosigma]

Hmmm, as you can see im new here but I've been playing this game for a while now. As I write this I am playing the Formula GT race (havnt played gt3 in about 1 1/2 years!). I am using too the F090/s (GO SENNA!). I used the slingshot technique and i lost by exactly 0.001!!!! I was pissed but it was the only 2nd place I got on it. Right now I am in Laguna Seca. I tried to check the settings and did a qualifying lap and ran a 1:03:354. Is this a good lap? The problem is that right after i ran it, my dog came into the room and pulled the cable, disconnecting it!! What type of setup should i run in laguna. It is my favorite course but when i treid to input the setup that ran the 1:03 i forgot, so im just running 1:05 at top, all perfect too! Any info is apprectiated!