Last race in the game F1 monaco!!

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Damn!! tell me if this happened to you. I saved this race for last, I did the series I won it, but i skipped the last race. Than I did the time trials passed that I did all the other race, so anyway last night I raced it and there where 2 other F094 race cars I was in a f094s. I raced and when it came time to pit we all pitted like at lap 8 9 and 10, but the f094s AI car kep going tell lap 23, how could that be or was that a glitch. What ever I finished second 41 seconds behind, what the hell is up with that. I made up like 30 secs on him on the last 20 laps what with that.
 
The AI cars are pretty sloppy when it comes to pitting. They never pit! Well they do put very rarely. They drive so much faster than you yet there tyres last for centuries.

Mr GT3 fix the AI!
 
I remember having some pitting problems against the AI in some of these races, especially the 94S (the only one really challenging me, I think). I started looking for setups that reduced tire wear, which made the car last nearly as long as the AI's.

Some of them, though, seem to go an awfully long time without pitting on certain races.
 
I have not done that race yet. The only problem I have is that no matter what I do on Grand Valley, my tires on my F1 car only last 5 laps. The AI always lasts for 6 laps. I tried and tried to reserve my tires, but it just ain't happening. But I can drive as hard as I possibly can, and still get 5 laps out of them. So easy or hard, 5 laps is my limit on that track. So I figured I would drive hard and aggessive, I make up time that way.
 
Originally posted by captainkirk
I have not done that race yet. The only problem I have is that no matter what I do on Grand Valley, my tires on my F1 car only last 5 laps. The AI always lasts for 6 laps. I tried and tried to reserve my tires, but it just ain't happening. But I can drive as hard as I possibly can, and still get 5 laps out of them. So easy or hard, 5 laps is my limit on that track. So I figured I would drive hard and aggessive, I make up time that way.
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I can just barely make 6 laps. :eek:
 
I don't know if this helped tire wear, but I raised the ride hight just a little (two cm, I think), as I thought the skidpad debris/sparks on most tracks may have been telling me something. That, and I lowered downforce a little. It seemed to help.

I also worked with some of the other settings, to see how it affected the car
 
I had to rerun that race as well. The first time I finished second and I was down by two laps. I kept falling asleep during the race (:

The second time I ran it I monitored my pits very closely, and ran an intelligent race. I was pitting every 6 laps and the computer was pitting every 10. That meant I had to gain 1.3 seconds every lap to make up for the extra 6 pits I would have to make. I quickly figured out that the computer was running an average of 1'21.5" on non-pit laps, so I had to average 1'19" on non-pit laps, and I just didn't worry about the pit laps because they're so crazy anyway.

I think my best lap was in the 1'16" to 1'16.5" range. I was stunned. Everything else was right on schedule, so I counted that as a little bit of extra gain.

Laps 30 and lap 60 the computer car and I should pit together because that was when our pit cycles overlapped. On 30 I entered the pit 2.5 seconds ahead of the computer, on lap 60 I entered the pit 5 seconds ahead of the computer. I've never been that consistant at anything ever before in my entire life (:

You just need to do the math on pit strategy, and monitor the computer cars very closely. I doubt they were getting that many laps out of a pit.

~LoudMusic
 
Well an easy race to monitor pit stops is the 50 laps at Super Speedway. That one is easy to win. Something interesting I have noticed is to watch the time gap between you and first place (or second place behind you) after each checkpoint. I have noticed substantial changes in time when the AI cars are getting close to pitting. I used that to predict their pitting laps.

One example was when I was racing Grand Valley. I had 7 laps to go to complete the race. The F094/S was way ahead, but I was catching up to second place, which was an F094/H. They had about 2 laps before their last pit, I was like three laps on my new tires. So I was smoking the clock, quickly catching the front 2 cars. Of course I couldn't make up 40 seconds within that remaining 6 or 7 laps. So I decided I would get the second place car. I caught him, then pitted again right in behind him. I knew I wasn't going to make it to the finish with my tires I was already on, so I pitted with only 3 laps on my tires. I done this because I had already discovered that my pit lane was directly in front of the F094/H. So he pitted in front of me, then I pulled in right in front of him. Once he was done, he got stuck behind me until I was done. This gave me second place coming out of the pits, so I didn't have to battle him except about half a lap.

After that, I just closed up as much time on first (knowing I couldn't catch him anyway) just to see how much time I could make up. My lap times were better than every other cars' lap times, but I get one less lap than they do, so I am basically screwed. Oh well, I will figure something out eventually.

Good luck on F1 Monaco hell! Sounds like a definite challenge. Later!! :burnout::burnout::burnout:
 

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