Using the Toyota Konica-Minolta, which has around 12,000km on it from B spec. No engine or chassis rebuilds - just oil change.
I'm doing it in stages using suspend. I'm using SRF, rare for me but with these very powerful cars it's the only way I can control them for short periods let alone 24 hours. Also TCS 4 (which I normally have off) and mild auto-correction. Yes, I'm a wimp...
I'm also using roofcam, basically to get a better view ahead.
First stint was about 1 hour 15 - race was wet, I was getting c. 10 laps for a set of tyres and it was quite easy to build up quite a lead. Then first suspension. Rain stopped. Went out on racing hard tyres. As others have noticed, the AI seemed to be much faster after the restore. As the track dried out the times went down and so did the tyre life - I ended up with a pattern of five laps between stops. I was tempted to go six but both times the tyres ran out of grip before the end of the lap and I lost over a minute correcting from spins (!).
I had two goes at a second stint - I abandoned the first when, after an hour, I passed the pits by mistake, ran out of fuel and ended up doing an eight minute lap... After another twenty minutes it was obvious that it was going to be too big a job to get this back, so I Resumed again.
Second attempt went for around five hours, and included night falling. I'd done practice laps of the circuit and thought I knew it well, but found that it's of little use when night falls - you almost have to learn the circuit over again. Initially my day times of c. 3:25 to 3:30 dropped to c. 3:38, but I gradually got the times back. It was during the night I made the two attempts at a six lap strategy, sending me down to fourth place.
Since then my stints have been 1-2 hours and I'm now up to c. 12 hours 15 minutes. I've settled in and am back to second and have unlapped myself, with around three minutes to the leader. As someone else reported, the only way I can keep up is to cut some of the chicanes - my best lap is c. 1:18.9. The main problem of night is the extra concentration - I've missed the pit entrance twice and having learnt lessons in both cases I've done a U-turn to get back in there.
Not tidy, not for the purist, but it's been quite an experience so far.
A couple more oddities I've noticed with Resume. In a couple of cases the lead car is shown as much closer then when I suspended, but after c. half a lap goes back to what you expect. (Example - 52 seconds after resume goes back abruptly to 3:30). The second is that the fastest lap record becomes inaccurate - instead of the lap that it occurred on it's listed as the first lap after resuming.
I'm doing it in stages using suspend. I'm using SRF, rare for me but with these very powerful cars it's the only way I can control them for short periods let alone 24 hours. Also TCS 4 (which I normally have off) and mild auto-correction. Yes, I'm a wimp...
I'm also using roofcam, basically to get a better view ahead.
First stint was about 1 hour 15 - race was wet, I was getting c. 10 laps for a set of tyres and it was quite easy to build up quite a lead. Then first suspension. Rain stopped. Went out on racing hard tyres. As others have noticed, the AI seemed to be much faster after the restore. As the track dried out the times went down and so did the tyre life - I ended up with a pattern of five laps between stops. I was tempted to go six but both times the tyres ran out of grip before the end of the lap and I lost over a minute correcting from spins (!).
I had two goes at a second stint - I abandoned the first when, after an hour, I passed the pits by mistake, ran out of fuel and ended up doing an eight minute lap... After another twenty minutes it was obvious that it was going to be too big a job to get this back, so I Resumed again.
Second attempt went for around five hours, and included night falling. I'd done practice laps of the circuit and thought I knew it well, but found that it's of little use when night falls - you almost have to learn the circuit over again. Initially my day times of c. 3:25 to 3:30 dropped to c. 3:38, but I gradually got the times back. It was during the night I made the two attempts at a six lap strategy, sending me down to fourth place.
Since then my stints have been 1-2 hours and I'm now up to c. 12 hours 15 minutes. I've settled in and am back to second and have unlapped myself, with around three minutes to the leader. As someone else reported, the only way I can keep up is to cut some of the chicanes - my best lap is c. 1:18.9. The main problem of night is the extra concentration - I've missed the pit entrance twice and having learnt lessons in both cases I've done a U-turn to get back in there.
Not tidy, not for the purist, but it's been quite an experience so far.
A couple more oddities I've noticed with Resume. In a couple of cases the lead car is shown as much closer then when I suspended, but after c. half a lap goes back to what you expect. (Example - 52 seconds after resume goes back abruptly to 3:30). The second is that the fastest lap record becomes inaccurate - instead of the lap that it occurred on it's listed as the first lap after resuming.
