I did not know this, I'm on a ps4 and I had believed that BoP locks all settings on the cars, I will tweek my DF and see if anything improves.
One stop no rain. The SOPHY AI field has only a handful of two stoppers, the rest are all one stop doing a 4-3 strategy, I don't think a two stop can win against the "real" SOPHY.
I gave the Hard mode option a couple of tries and it is tough! First try was the WRX, got a dry race and was able to manage a one stop on FM1 got smoked by 30 seconds ended up P4. Second try in the Vette, got a wet race so should have a shot, wrong. The Viper pulled his Senna on slicks trick when the whole field got caught out in a mid lap downpour, put a 45 second gap on the field pitted for inters never to be seen again. I managed a P2 but nearly 40 seconds back. The Viper, of course, had fast lap both times @ 4:13 and 4:14. Possible winning strategy for a dry race I think needs to be a one stop, in a rain race anything can happen but perfect strategy is needed to win.
I don't understand how I won this, i set my car as instructed (Honda NSX) and i knew that all other cars in the WTC700 were much closer to the 700pp than mine because I was BoP and they were not, I felt I was at a disadvantage on the start but I have a "no quit" policy and pushed with a 17 second lead over P2 in 7 laps. Rain was there but not enough to force a change of tyres, and I dropped to FM6 just in last sector of lap 6 so I didn't have to refuel and passed into P1 at beginning of lap 7 as the Viper was in the pits.
Two stop FM1, I did a 3-2-2 while the AI Viper did his 3-3-1, was able to short fuel on my second stop and have a decent out lap, passed the Viper as he was coming out of the pits and held him off through the final lap. Nothing to be proud of but I will do it in a car not named Viper!
After an extended break from the game and now playing on a new to me account, I got a bit of the grind bug back
I have been doing the WTC700 modificato as suggested by @kartrcr08 and loving the challenge of the grind with that real chance that I am NOT going to P1 every time.
I've seen the 458 in the top 10 before, but only in "unique" rain races such as this one. This race played out as follows, I was planning a dry race 1 stop 4-3 strat in the RC F but ended up getting generic rain middle of lap 3. It was questionable whether to pit for inters or push through for the one stop, I gambled on the rain and pitted for inters. This is where the "unique" part comes in and the 458 in particular. The 458 AI is actually quite good in the wet, he's just usually such a back marker that you never see him. This is the "unique" end of lap 3 scenario, most of the field pits for fuel but it's not quite wet enough to switch tires and the radar could go either way. The back markers have the advantage in observation time before entering the pits and that's what happened here. Myself and the three back markers were the only ones to change to inters and the rain stayed steady, no monsoon just gradually filling the rain gauge. The end result was by the middle of lap 5 I had a big gap to the 458 group and then another big gap to the main field. Early in lap 6 it was obvious that the main field couldn't do seven laps so it was just the 458, Atenza and the M4. I may have slowed down and drove a little overly defensive
but that's how the 458 came 2nd and a six lap on hard was coerced.I agree with your list of Gr4's with the caveat of not that hard with manual transmission, it's harder with automatic. I've been grinding the stock Gr4's the past couple weeks, mostly on hard and on MT. All cars were stock suspension, gearbox and aero, no tuning at all on racing medium tires.
