Is it possible to make up 3 minutes?

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I just ran out of gas in 24 hours of nuburgring and I'm now probably going to be 3 to 4 minutes behind leader. I'm 2 hours and 15 minutes into the race. Will there be time to make it up by the end of the race or should I just start the race over?

Thank you to whoever can help me here.
 
Since your not that far into the race, you can definitely make it up by the end. Clean lines and a good pit strategy are the key to making up the time. It's definitely do able.
 
Well it depends on the car you are using, tires and skill on the ring but should be easy enough to make up that amount of time.

I remember when I ran the 24hr race on GT4 I used a Amuse R1 for 200 A-Spec points and was 6 laps ahead at the end which is roughly 40-45 minutes.

On GT5 when I ran the 4hr race I used a DTM car and pulled over twice for a cup of coffee and sat there about 10 minutes each time and still was comfortably ahead at the end.
 
Shouldn't be a problem if you don't run out of gas again / continuously crash. Also if it starts raining you should make up ground rapidly I'd you're half decent on a wet track. The a-spec AI is awful in the rain.

Simply put: if something can happen in 2 hours it can be easily reversed in 22 hours :)
 
I made an endurance race calculator exactly for purposes like this.

It's in Excel format, so if you've got Excel for PC you can download it here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_nYaY13F28NSzdBS1o5UWR4NEE/edit?usp=sharing

If you've got Excel for Mac (and a version that doesn't support visual basic macros) you can still download and open it, but some key functionality will be lost.

You can also check out this forum post, where I'm describing the functions and how to use it: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=7829911#post7829911

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Smooth. Just drive smooth. Save your tires. If you feel like you're running out of fuel, don't shift below 4th gear, and try to keep enough fuel in the tank to keep the car's top speed above 80 km/h.


However, I seem to remember pitting every other lap, for fuel, because it creates less stationary time. Most times, the gap to the other drivers can change drastically, pending their fuel/tire strategies. Don't race their race. Race your own race.


I challenge you, actually, to make it interesting, by seeing whether or not you can run 5 laps in a row, to the very same second. For example, a reasonable lap time in my Evo X TC Nürb 4Hr. was 10:20.xxx. I ran that lap time for 6 consecutive laps. It was 2-3 seconds slower than the Amuse S2000 on fresh tires, but it was a second per lap faster than the same car on worn tires. We stayed neck-and-neck the whole race. In the end, a little bit of smart driving on the last lap saw me win by about half a second. I ran my own race, up until the final, closing stages, when I double-stinted on the same set of tires, and the results showed.
 
Well so far my strategy is to pit every 3 laps as the leaders will pit every 4 laps. By pitting 1 lap earlier, I have fresher tires than the leader has so I am making up some time by doing that. I usually fill my tank to 3/4 of a full tank and it seems to do the trick to make up a little bit of time. I'm happy with my results so far.
 
Once the rain kicks in you will demolish the LMP cars and scrub about 20secs a lap off them. They are painfully slow in the rain.

I recently completed the 24h race using the RX-7 TC using racing hards and wet tyres only. I only had 2hrs worth of rain the entire race but they where enough to build a solid lead. Finished the race 22secs ahead, but only due to too many screw ups towards the end of my play stints. My strategy was 5laps on each set fueling 65L. With this strategy I could manage to lose 10secs a lap in the dry on the leading car and still come out front 20laps down due to one less stop.

That being said, the RX-7 TC was quite the challenge there to keep on pace!
 
It all depends on how hard you have your difficulty set. In most cases there shouldn't be any problem. If you can't make up 3 minutes in 21 hours you've given yourself quite the challenge indeed. In my case I was about 3.5 minutes behind after about 13 hours and it took nearly all of the rest of the race to catch up, but I didn't completely stop making mistakes and there was still time in the car.

In addition, I staunchly refused to try running anything grippier than the sports softs I had started the race with. Unless you did something silly like starting the race on race softs or not buying the higher grades of tires you can always just fit some softer tires on for a couple of stints to catch up, and then go back to your original compound and start racing the way you originally intended again.

You can't count on rain either. If it comes you can make up tons of ground in a hurry by running on inters or race softs instead of the full wets the AI uses, but there's no guarantee it will come. There's also the chance that you'll have something like what I did, where it rained farly substantially for a full hour and the track never got wet enough to even notice. No spray, no graphic change at all, no handling effect - I can't remember now if the meter ever rose above zero, I don't think so but I was driving without it and only checking my gaps now and then on pit-stops.
 
That's absolutely possible. There are still Twenty Two hours of racing left, so you shouldn't have any problem making that ground back up. Keep it on the black stuff and consistent, and as others have said, the rain will help you.
 
Yes. When I did it last month, I ran in to many problems with getting my strategy to work. Either it was slow lap times, taking too long in the pits, or both.

At one point I was 3:30+ behind, but I still managed to make it up and win.

And yes, the rain is kinda a savior. It may not be quite as fun to drive in, but there were points where I was really hoping for rain.
 
I made an endurance race calculator exactly for purposes like this.

It's in Excel format, so if you've got Excel for PC you can download it here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_nYaY13F28NSzdBS1o5UWR4NEE/edit?usp=sharing

If you've got Excel for Mac (and a version that doesn't support visual basic macros) you can still download and open it, but some key functionality will be lost.

You can also check out this forum post, where I'm describing the functions and how to use it: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=7829911#post7829911

rc201.jpg

Dude that's awesome! :drool: :D
 
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