La Sarthe and Spa ,weather report and other " stuff "

[smoothbore12]

@LANDO here is my settings from TT laps that usually am doing to set cars for the race .
At FM1 and AT gears should pull 3 laps .

Its very tricky car and am not pleased yet but anyway that's what i got right now.
Move the weight one digit in front and the pp goes crazy .

They are two versions ,both are fast but the most critical thing that i notice chasing my ghosts is ONE , you must find the exact ( short of ) braking points .
There's a lot of difference if you brake " right " than early or late .

Both versions have High rpm turbo and racing gear box adjusted ONLY at 320 khm and brakes at -2

Am at 52's with both which means in race 55's-56's won't be such a difficult task .
Of course with higher FM you can choose your strategy depends on weather radar 😂 .

The aero is B in front, diffuser and rear wing at the rear .
As about wide body i don't use them so i can't tell if there's any difference and am not willing to find out .

Waiting your impressions if you run them , i play on controller using ONLY buttons 😱 .

 

[LANDO]

@LANDO here is my settings from TT laps that usually am doing to set cars for the race .
At FM1 and AT gears should pull 3 laps .

Its very tricky car and am not pleased yet but anyway that's what i got right now.
Move the weight one digit in front and the pp goes crazy .

They are two versions ,both are fast but the most critical thing that i notice chasing my ghosts is ONE , you must find the exact ( short of ) braking points .
There's a lot of difference if you brake " right " than early or late .

Both versions have High rpm turbo and racing gear box adjusted ONLY at 320 khm and brakes at -2
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Am at 52's with both which means in race 55's-56's won't be such a difficult task .
Of course with higher FM you can choose your strategy depends on weather radar 😂 .

The aero is B in front, diffuser and rear wing at the rear .
As about wide body i don't use them so i can't tell if there's any difference and am not willing to find out .

Waiting your impressions if you run them , i play on controller using ONLY buttons 😱 .

Thank you for taking your time to elaborate such a good reply!

 

[smoothbore12]

Thank you for taking your time to elaborate such a good reply!

Always a pleasure to help members and share things that make our lemans life easier.

My 911 (09 ) swap is faster there but only there and i have the feeling that Jag will be fast and in other tracks.

 

[Batschisane52]

Here is my take on it...

Didn't do any TTs, just 3 races so far.Best racing lap was around 4.05 on RMs and FM1...but didn't push too hard.
Didn't get one competly dry race either, and some interesting weather situations...

From the stats it looks a bit slower than the version from smoothebore12...and more on SUV height it seems
(I am using controller using triggers)

 

[LANDO]

Thank you both!
Ready to go for tomorrow

 

[jrbabbitt]

I have the Mulsanne Kink....

 

[smoothbore12]

Thank you both!
Ready to go for tomorrow
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Good luck @LANDO , by mistake i post same tune in my post above but i correct it so now are both versions that i run .

Note that too much ride height affect top speed .

@jrbabbitt bring it on .

 

[LANDO]

Good luck @LANDO , by mistake i post same tune in my post above but i correct it so now are both versions that i run .

Note that too much ride height affect top speed .

@jrbabbitt bring it on .

I will try both settings. I just wanna get rid of that boat sensation when it brakes

Otherwise I have a brand new stock 696pp Ferrari 330P4 that just does the work fine 🤣

 

[smoothbore12]

Couldn't resist the temptation .🤣
I swapped another one Jag but this time didn't put full weight reduction since at my settings i put ballast and it's about the same weigh.
Plus i save 300K 🤣

The purpose is to test it with or without diffuser at the rear and play with different aero settings without mess the same car.
Also this car has and an energetic LSD which i really don't know how it works but definitely has different behaviour by using it 🙄 instead of the fully adjustable one .

Anyway i didn't expect to get hit again by Lemans virus but this car is a challenge that i can't resist.
Also after many months i put difficulty at easy in case of rain to save 7th lap .

 

[LANDO]

I tried mine today and I like the challenge of driving it. You have to brake in a straight line otherwise starts to float like a boat. 2 laps started to rain and when I entered to pits I see I didn’t purchased the rain tires

For sure the behavior is the cars depends on the type of LSD installed

Edit. Now it goes like a bullet. With the 2 ways LSD. Best car so far I’ve tried for 700pp Lemans. Grinding time. The way of driving now is such a pleasure, it rotates great.

 

[OldandSlow]

When they’re maxed-out, the F-Type and the 812 Superfast are excellent in the Hypercar races, too.

 

[kartrcr08]

Here's another version of the beast to try, non racing tranny and custom LSD save some PP and I seem to have found a bit of an aero glitch. 7th gear at 367 kph and it will peg it! Wide body and fully lightened.

 

[kartrcr08]

Yesterday I took a break from fast cars on Hard to one slow run on Easy. The little Honda 2&4 needed a shot at a post 1.59 run, this time at 107 Hp because of worn oil. Long story short, didn't get rain until early in lap 4 so the inters were pretty worn, just steady rain through lap 4 no monsoon. Caught the leaders as they pitted beginning of lap 5 and hoped to hang on. They gradually started closing the gap and would have caught me but they pitted again to switch from wets to inters. The track dried quickly during lap 6 so lots of puddle hunting to save my tires. One of the more difficult things I've done in this game, driving a slow car as hard as possible whilst saving fuel ( FM3 @ 107hp) and tires was pretty stressful. The 30.19 over all is the quickest low Hp time I've ever done! I'll take a break from low HP for now, there's no other car in the game that can get under 110 HP and has the pace of the 2&4. Maybe low PP next?

 

[jrbabbitt]

I know it's been awhile since I posted anything significant here but I have been working in a small project at our LeMans track. Since the WTC700 has been a relatively easy race to get 800k and a lot of many different cars have done well, I needed a little more of a challenge and the recent BoP changes for Gr.4 and Gr.3 have given me that challenge. I created in custom race the same parameters as the WTC700 except the weather is random not a known rainstorm mid-race and turned on BoP. The fuel and tyre wear are same 6X as in the WTC700 and I increased the fueling rate to 6L/sec from the default 3L/sec.
My usual race strategy is fuel based as I try to get more laps per stint than the AI but I failed in this and best I could get in 5 different races was P10! A change of strategy was definitely needed as I went full speed for 7 laps in the 30 minute race with two pit stops for fuel with a change of tyres on the second stop.
It was not easy but I did finally finish in P1

Will post my custom race settings if desired...

All in all, I had fun with this and going to try each car to see which one is best in BoP

 

[kartrcr08]

I was doing some inventory on my current account and discovered a lot of missing engine swaps and most of the 20 mil cars, something to grind for again! Tried out a couple swaps, one racing engine one not, I forgot how strong the Crown was with the Lexus swap! The non racing swap, one I don't think I did on my old account, the Toyota HiAce van. Goofy rig but what the hell. Paid for itself first time out, dry race with 3-2-2 strat, 3 laps FM 6, 2 laps FM 2, RH tires and MT.

 

[jrbabbitt]

Small update on my prior posting of my doing custom BoP races at LeMans...
I do not always win! I am usually running full out and some of the races I have done i have finished in P2 or worse, in fact one race I finished P20 because of a pit error that I didn't refuel (clicked Don't Refuel by accident) and not quitting I made the lap in 6min and 54 seconds before returning to refuel (lol)
Still continuing on with Gr.4 before going on with the Gr.3

 

[kartrcr08]

Still continuing on with Gr.4 before going on with the Gr.3

I'm curious what you've found a typical Gr.4 fast lap to be in the custom race, and how it compares to the hard mode AI fast laps of 4:16 +/- 3 seconds.

 

[jrbabbitt]

I'm curious what you've found a typical Gr.4 fast lap to be in the custom race, and how it compares to the hard mode AI fast laps of 4:16 +/- 3 seconds.

Will collect and send that data as soon as I can...
@kartrcr08

just did a quick one with the BMW M4 gr.4, and i have to say this car is a beaten dog, under BoP it cannot keep up with competition, handles poorly and fuel management is rubbish ( does not get 3 laps at FM1!!!)

as for the fastest lap speeds i have been seeing with regularity is 4:30 ish from the AI and my fastest with Gr.4 BoP is around 4:35 ish...

 

[kartrcr08]

as for the fastest lap speeds i have been seeing with regularity is 4:30 ish from the AI and my fastest with Gr.4 BoP is around 4:35 ish...

Interesting, the BoP knocks them down quite a bit and isn't the custom race Sophy? would love to see your race settings sounds like fun.

 

[jrbabbitt]

Interesting, the BoP knocks them down quite a bit and isn't the custom race Sophy? would love to see your race settings sounds like fun.

Ok will have them up in an hour (approx 0730 London time)

 

[jrbabbitt]

@kartrcr08

My last race...

I finished with less than 1% fuel...and look at the AI fastest lap! My fastest was 4:36.xxx

 

[kartrcr08]

Thanks for your race settings. I've never actually done a custom race, will give it a go!

 

[kartrcr08]

So I gave the Gr4 BoP custom race a try, lot of fun! I made one minor tweak to the settings, put the time lapse thingy to 15x making the last three laps be in the dark, pretty cool. Also cool to see all the different Gr4 cars and liveries that aren't in the WTC version. I've only tried three cars so far, Cayman, Mclaren 650s and the Viper. All three one stop winners with margin of victory around 1.5 seconds. My only nitpick with the race is the Sophy AI. Number one the emoji faces get old real quick, and it seems overly rubber bandy. I had three races with overall time ranging from 32.41 to 33.31 with the gap to second place virtually identical in all three. Still fun and I'll try more cars, might do an all night version.

 

[jrbabbitt]

So I gave the Gr4 BoP custom race a try, lot of fun! I made one minor tweak to the settings, put the time lapse thingy to 15x making the last three laps be in the dark, pretty cool. Also cool to see all the different Gr4 cars and liveries that aren't in the WTC version. I've only tried three cars so far, Cayman, Mclaren 650s and the Viper. All three one stop winners with margin of victory around 1.5 seconds. My only nitpick with the race is the Sophy AI. Number one the emoji faces get old real quick, and it seems overly rubber bandy. I had three races with overall time ranging from 32.41 to 33.31 with the gap to second place virtually identical in all three. Still fun and I'll try more cars, might do an all night version.

i am on a PS4 therefore i do not have the luxury of SOPHY... i am happy that you like and approve...

 

[smoothbore12]

I might not posting but am aware what's going on there my friends.

So i give it a try since @jrbabbitt put us in the "plug " 😂

I follow his settings but didn't remember the exact refueling rate and put him also at 6X .

It's tough , i had to put manual gears taking advantage or Veyron torque changing gears half way and less after 3rd lap pit stop.

Where the hell the Suzuki find 10 seconds i really don't know and if i wasn't on save fuel mode i would have to do 2 stops and of course there wasn't any chance to win .

THe time was late in the morning and didn't change any speed .

 

[kartrcr08]

Where the hell the Suzuki find 10 seconds i really don't know and if i wasn't on save fuel mode i would have to do 2 stops and of course there wasn't any chance to win .

The custom race AI is very odd. I intentionally tested a 2 stop against the regular AI and still won, my fast laps were mid 32's but check out the Mustang at 4:18! Totally impossible at Gr4 BoP on RH.

 

[smoothbore12]

The custom race AI is very odd. I intentionally tested a 2 stop against the regular AI and still won, my fast laps were mid 32's but check out the Mustang at 4:18! Totally impossible at Gr4 BoP on RH.View attachment 1454569

I think is some kind of glitch that happens after the pitstop, for some reason some cars are going crazy fast for one lap till get back to normal performance, we face that in our Titans lobby once at Daytona in our cars after pitstop but not everyone.
I don't know if i can win on two stops .

 

[jrbabbitt]

I had said this custom race was not easy....In the Gr.4 BoP races I've only won three times, vette, Viper, and Aston Martin.