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Hey guys

I am thinking about running the 24 hours of Nurburgring. Im wondering what car would be best to do this with. Im probibley going with b-spec. Anyways im thinkin of leaving the ps2 on over night and when i wake up the race will be over. Will the car do everything by itself like passing or pitting? And also what would be the best setting and tires for the car im going to race?
 
transam1111
Hey guys

I am thinking about running the 24 hours of Nurburgring. Im wondering what car would be best to do this with. Im probibley going with b-spec. Anyways im thinkin of leaving the ps2 on over night and when i wake up the race will be over. Will the car do everything by itself like passing or pitting? And also what would be the best setting and tires for the car im going to race?
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I wouldn't suggest doing that. In B-spec the driver isn't always the best driver. He occassionally has a tendency to blow a turn or two. In B-spec I always monitor the race closely. Pushing and Overtake in the not too technical areas, and fast or steady, depending on the difficulty of the more technical areas, and with Overtake you really want to watch how he's approaching corners, he is bad about wanting to overtake to the outside in some corners. Sometimes you actually have to signal slow down.

I've run a few races in Bspec with the Motul Z, and he just doesn't mess up with the Z. It just handles soo good. I tried it a few time in the MG races, and he would blow 2 of the corners in a particular race, can't remember which, soo bad, he would go flying off into the sand and the race was basically over.
 
Pit Stop Strategy.

Set your guy up with a really fast car (Toyota Minolta with full mods) and hard tires. Set his speed for 3 and don't hit overtake, just let him cruise along and hopefully he will pass the other cars when they pit and be able to pit less often than the AI cars. He may not get a commanding lead early on, but after 24 hours at should work itself out. Those ~25 seconds that it costs to pit (factoring pit time, speed limit in pits, running on cold tires) can really add up. If they all pit at 15 minute intervals and your guy can go 20 minutes you will have a 10 minute advantage over 24 hours.

It works in real life, haven't tried it on a long endure yet, but it's how I won the "Roadster" endure in GT3.

If your B-Spec driver doesn't have much experience yet, try letting him run the El Capitan enduro first, you'll win the Minolta Toyota and enough money to mod it and he'll gain some experience.
 
i need to try and see if there is a way to turn off the pit stop menu that takes you from going three times the speed to live view??? anyone?
especially when in endurance races
 
I've been doing the bspec mode with the euro 1000, under the euro races to give my guy some experience. I usually just set it to the 3rd setting and overtake before I go to work, and before I go to bed.

I've noticed my guy gets about the same lap times at setting 3 and above, but above 3 it knocks about 1 lap off of the length I can go without a pit stop.

I can't remember what course I've done my testing on, but at setting 1 I would do a lap in about 1:55, setting 2 would be 1:50, and setting 3-5 would be 1:45.

for each of those the length between pits would be (and I can't remember exactly) 11 for setting 1; 10 for setting 2; 9 for setting 3; 8 for setting 4; 7 for setting 5.

so I would actually do worse with higher settings.

anyway, I'd be willing to bet that with training your guy will do better on the higher settings.

in addition, overtake is key to always have on, it won't wear your tires any faster, but if you are stuck behind a car that is traveling slow your driver won't take advantage of passing when he can, so you will be stuck behind a slow driver, while the other drivers are catching up to you, set your driver to get around as quickly as possible, aka, always put on overtake.
 
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my overtake goes off after awhile, it almost seems if there is nobody ahead of him the computer shuts it off and it stays on push.
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Yes, overtaking would seem to imply a car is necessary in front. :rolleyes:
 
I don't think I've ever seen overtake turn itself off. If I switch between screens (replay type view to data view) the "overtake" message goes away, but if you press it again it doesn't come back, I have to press twice to get the "overtake" message back, but judging by the driving I would say it stays in "overtake" mode even though it may just say "Push".

Using the pit stop passing strategy should never require overtake mode. The idea is that you just want your car to go at least 1 or two laps more than the other cars without needing a pit stop while turning lap times comparable to the lead car. In overtake mode the driver will never pass a car moving along at the same rate, but it will pass when the car pits and it will pass significantly slower cars, or any car that goes off line or off course. Thus the HARD tires. All of the AI cars run on the tires that come with the car, in the case of the LMP cars medium compound race tires. If you run hard compound tires in 3 or 4 the B-Spec driver will lose a little ground through corners, but gain it back at the straights, especially the long straight at The Ring. Like I said it probably won't get a strong lead early on, it's more of the slow-but-steady-wins-the-race idea.

I realize though it is an untested theory so in the interest of science I have started my Minolta Toyota on the 24 hour Nurburgring race with the speed set to 3, Super-Hard tires and driving aids at default.

Actually though, now that I see the competition in the 24 Hour Nurburgring, if my B-Spec driver does have 1st by the end of the 1st lap, he's fired... :)
 
I am running a toyota gt-one on sarthe 24 hour endurance. I tuned the tranny to be able to easily hit 250+. I can do it in a spec mode no problem, but in b-spec, it only hits 215-220. Is there anything I can do about this?
 
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I am running a toyota gt-one on sarthe 24 hour endurance. I tuned the tranny to be able to easily hit 250+. I can do it in a spec mode no problem, but in b-spec, it only hits 215-220. Is there anything I can do about this?
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Sounds like, your co-driver is just too afraid to push it ! :scared: Check the seat after he pits ! :yuck:
 
transam1111
Hey guys

I am thinking about running the 24 hours of Nurburgring. Im wondering what car would be best to do this with. Im probibley going with b-spec. Anyways im thinkin of leaving the ps2 on over night and when i wake up the race will be over. Will the car do everything by itself like passing or pitting? And also what would be the best setting and tires for the car im going to race?
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do A-spec you wimp so you dont have to blame the CPU driver when you lose!
 

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