Poor car performance in wet at 24 Hours of Le Mans?

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I'm currently about 9 hours into the race with my Mazda 787B and the track has just reached 100% wetness. I'm on full wet tires and my car just doesn't have the grip of the others...I had a 3 minute lead before the rain, but the car just wont speed up and corner as quick as the other cars in the wet. Is there still the tire problem where Intermediates or Racing Softs are better than wets in a 100% wet track or am I just a rubbish wet weather driver?
 
At 100%, anything like the 787B will be tricky to handle, if I remember correctly, Racing softs are indeed the best tires to use, not the racing rain tires, due to PD being lame with traction settings. It may help a bit to use racing soft tires, but you'll still have to make up for the rest of the challenge with skills.
 
I'm afraid that you're not so good at wet tracks. You may have to work more on your throttle control. If you have traction control on though then that should minimize your spins.

I don't mean to insult you though :)

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I am using traction control, but I'm being out-accelerated at low speed out of the corners at no matter what setting I use. And I did spin out a couple times, but I only lost about 20 seconds of the three minutes to that. I was constantly losing time just driving regularly. I thought they patched the rain tire problem...
 
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I am using traction control, but I'm being out-accelerated at low speed out of the corners at no matter what setting I use. And I did spin out a couple times, but I only lost about 20 seconds of the three minutes to that. I was constantly losing time just driving regularly.
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Try being really easy on the throttle. Or you can go with what UnionStrike said and go for Racing Softs.
 
They didn't patch that issue? I thought they did...
 
Just an update, the racing soft tires are much better in the wet than the rain tires. The intermediates are worse, however. Thanks for the help!
 
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