My nemesis... - Le Mans 24

[Rising9]

Hello, I need your help with this sh....
I tried this race nearly 20 times and still cant beat it. I learned how to do perfect laps with my Minolta. Im going to pit stop on lap 2, 4 and 6 (at this lap ~30 litres) and... yes, this is too less... Every time when opponents go for pit Im overtaking them, but when I go, some of them overtaking me again and Im losing. Every single time, again and again - every race 1-3 cars are before me on finish.
This is bugged or sth? For me its impossible, my pit stop = getting overtaken. This is last race, i have full stars on ecery single race before. Golding Senna was easier, goddamn
Help me with it please

 

[Mr P]

Race it with the Judd or TS030 👍

 

[GTsail]

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I tried this race nearly 20 times and still cant beat it. I learned how to do perfect laps with my Minolta. Im going to pit stop on lap 2, 4 and 6 (at this lap ~30 litres)

I've run the race with Minolta (and many other cars as well) so the Minolta can win the 24 minute Le Mans race. What spec's are you using for your Minolta?

I usually de-tune my cars a little so they are not running with maximum allowable horsepower which allows me to save some fuel during the first three laps. I usually use the following tire strategy:

First three laps on IM rain tires and then pit for fuel and RM tires
Laps 4 and 5 on RM tires
Laps 6 and 7 on RM tires

Good luck!

 

[coryclifford]

TS030 on RS tires.

 

[GTsail]

Ran this race with a 680PP Minolta and got a 59 second margin:

My Minolta's a little tail happy so it could use a better tune, but its certainly fast enough to run thru the field.

 

[Rising9]

Nice - can you tell me more about your pit stops? In which laps and how many fuel. This is my biggest problem with this race. As I say before, when I overtake opponent X Y and Z, I am overtaken by A B and C. When I overtake A B and C I am overtaken by X Y and Z - this is really frustrating!

 

[GTsail]

@Rising9 -
I used my standard pit strategy for this particular race.
Started the race on IM tires and pitted at the end of lap # 3 for 70 liters of fuel and RM tires.
I was somewhat gentle with the throttle during the third lap to be sure I didn't run out of fuel.
Pitted a second time at the end of lap # 5 and took on 64 liters of fuel and RM tires
Had plenty of fuel after the first pit-stop so wasn't gentle any more with the throttle and finished with more fuel in the tank than was absolutely necessary.

Hmmm... it doesn't look like I have the optimum ballast settings:

 

[Rising9]

Thank you, tomorrow I'll try this race with your settings, but I need to ask you a question - how you can drive 3 laps on 1 fuel tank? When I tried to do it, fuel ends in third minute of third lap and Minolta started to go 70 km/h

 

[GTsail]

How you can drive 3 laps on 1 fuel tank?

I'm intentionally being gentle with the Minolta's throttle during the first three laps, and I'm not running the Minolta with the maximum allowable (per the race regulations) horsepower.

 

[GTsail]

@Rising9 -
I decided to try @coryclifford 's suggestion of RS tires, so I went back to La Sarthe and ran my Minolta again and improved my time by nearly 28 seconds:

I was able to stretch my margin over the second place Minolta Toyota to 1 min. and 24 seconds:

I ran the first three laps with IM tires and was gentle with the throttle and did some short-shifting so the fuel would last three laps. I then pitted at the end of lap # 3 for RS tires and 67 liters of fuel. I then ran hard for two laps and then pitted at the end of lap # 5 for 62 liters of fuel and RS tires again. The RS tires easily last the two laps so you can gain some decent time and push harder thru the corners.

 

[coryclifford]

Nice @GTsail. RS tires the whole race works for me.

 

[Rising9]

Thank you GTsail! I finally beat it! Your strategy with less power gave me similar result to my previous attempts, but I won it by luck today - fuel ends at second corner before finish and I've won by 0.6 sec. Im full respect to your +1.24 lead, bro!
And as the reward for beating career, I bought myself Ferrari FXX as a reward

 

[GTsail]

I finally beat it! Your strategy with less power gave me similar result to my previous attempts, but I won it by luck today - fuel ends at second corner before finish and I've won by 0.6 sec.

Well done!!👍

Now that you've won with the Minolta, you can try some other cars.
What other cars do you have?

Even non-race cars can win at La Sarthe.
I'm partial to the Cadillac CIEN
Check out my race reports from last year in the Le Mans thread (from post # 101 to post # 116):

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/the-24-minutes-of-le-mans-thread.313163/

 

[Rising9]

I have ~450 cars, but many of them are typical, stock cars like Ford's, Subaru's, Mercedes' . When I beat new seasonals, I will try Le Mans 24 with Audi R18, Toyota 7, and my new machine, Ferrari FXX. I want to try Chapparal 2J too, but previous I must buy it Maybe W12 Nardo can win this event too

 

[coryclifford]

Chaparral 2J is fun because it doesn't have headlights. Toyota 7 might not either, I can't recall.

 

[Rising9]

Toyota 7 is my favourite racing car and I love to drive it with interior view, but is really hard for me on wet road (this is why I choose Minolta for 24 Le Mans). So Chappy 2J is very fun to drive in the night? I must try it!

 

[GTsail]

*** RS tires the whole race

I decided to give this a try with the Pescarolo C60 Hybride. I purchased a set of RS tires and threw a quick tune at my Hybride and ended up with 695PP. With this much horsepower the Hybride sucks down fuel like a whale so I decided to pit every lap

Even after six pit-stops I was able to win with a time of 26.54.113 and with a 22 second winning margin:

Here's a picture that shows I pitted 6 times

And here's my Hybride on the S/F line at the end of the race:

Good fun!

 

[GTsail]

In the above race, at the last split I thought I saw that I had a 20 second lead so I didn't think I had enough time to pit a 7th time, but after the race, the final margin seems to be large enough for another pit stop so I decided to try again.

Using my Pescarolo Hybride again, and pushing the track limits a little more I was able to win the race after pitting seven times

Here's a picture of the timing records which shows I pitted seven times:

Here's the same point in the race from my Pescarolo as I cross the S/F line at the end of the seven laps, which shows me driving up the pit-lane. The game didn't let me take on any fuel or tires since the 24 minute mark was already passed as I was driving up the pit-lane. You can see my lap seven time of 3:48.840

My overall margin was still substantial:

 

[coryclifford]

Nice job @GTsail.

Give a stock TS030 on RS tires a whirl. It's a pit once race.

 

[GTsail]

As @coryclifford says, the Toyota 7 doesn't have any headlights, but it can win at La Sarthe. I tuned my Toyota 7 to 700PP and ran thru the dark using the "the force" for guidance. I was able to win with a decent margin:

Here's a picture as I head off into the darkness from the Mulsanne corner, its so dark that my cell-phone camera took a flash:

Here's a picture just as dawn arrives as I head into Indianapolis and I can see the road again:

I ran on RS tires all the way. The Toyota doesn't use that much fuel so I pitted at the end of lap # 3, and then again at the end of lap # 5. The Toyota 7 handles pretty well on the RS tires so it was a pretty easy race during the day-light hours.