When I did that event during patch 1.18:
I just did this mission but the Top 5 were running 59's, I guess your difficulty is set to hard? (I'm on normal!)
After the first failed attempt and the thought of doing it again, I tried dropping the difficulty but they're still running low 57's. I haven't tried stopping out when the first lot of rain arrives, though. That's worth a shot. If all else fails, I'll finish the race to see where the ai are gaining so much time.
Your lap times are good enough to win. Is your difficulty level set to hard? If not, please make it hard. 'Hard' is the easiest difficulty level in the human comedy missions. Just keep driving consistently and the AI will eventually pit more frequently than you, leading you to victory.
I used the Stratos tune posted earlier. The pp has increased to 465, so I upped the power but found that I needed to run Fuel Map 3 to get it with 1 stop halfway for fuel. I won by a few seconds but my driving was sloppy - could have won by a minute.
I ran the race not too long ago. Don't think I saved the replay, but I definitely still have the tune. It'll be a moment before I can share it, or maybe I can find it again on Reddit.
There is quite a selection in this thread available, and though they are (mostly) from previous game version, you can use the setup and either increase power or reduce weight in many cases.
The car and tyre wear isn't a problem at the end of a stint so I doubt I'll go the tuning route. Thank you for the offer, though. It's appreciated.
Did it right now with the Viper on medium tyres with heavy shortshifting at about 10% indicator bar.
) seconds. I actually threw it on a 7 second crash that made me think its a loss, but somehow the speed was enough to finish 1st.
Just tried this, fastes AI lap was in the low 59sec.
Hizal ran a 1:55.946 in my race. I won the race by 2.301 seconds running lots of 1:58's and 1:59's. I got lucky in the end when lapped traffic blocked the leaders and I was able to catch up to them. If that didn't happen I would have been 20 seconds behind the leaders.
I went and had a look at what I said about the first event on Reddit. Fuel Map 6 the whole event, Racing Hards to start with, and at first pit. Full fuel when pitting, as you'll be empty. Second pit window is when empty again (unable to do another whole lap with the fuel left). Get Intermediates with the second pit, and full fuel again.
Just had 4 runs at it. My best result was a 2nd over 56 laps and a full lap behind. 1st lapped the whole grid in that race but on my last run, a 3rd, they lapped everyone at least twice.
They're doing 57s? I'm looking at the screenshot of my end result there. I completed the race in an hour and 6 seconds. But the fastest lap was Fraga with a 59.198 on lap 2. Only thing I can think of is maybe you've got the game on a lower difficulty setting?
Although you gave it up:
Pretty much test and try for the car that suits you the most there. They are BoP races, tyre wear and fuel consumption hasnt changed in such a way as to change strategies in these events.
57.1 mostly but Kokubun had a 57.0 in one run. Other than a couple of missed apexes, my runs have been drama free so I've run out of ideas for a strategy. Especially when I go a lap down.
Can you remember what the fastest lap was?
Okay, that's perplexing. Unless you're game difficulty is on normal or easy, I have no clue why they're lapping Tsukuba so fast. Especially since it's only dry for the first half. One your second tyres, you should catch a bit of rain before having to change, but that's no real struggle even on Hards.
The fastest in both attempts yesterday was a low 58, though it doesnt really matter as long as the AI doesnt exceed 56 laps with their pitting "strategies" - at 57 laps I can see it becoming difficult.
The weather hasn't always followed the same pattern in my races. At first, it was two spells of rain, light then just shy of full wets but my last few runs have skipped the first bit and doubled up on the second, which is too much for inters. It's certainly keeping me guessing.
My last run was 56 laps where 1st lapped everyone twice. Horrible lines but their car seems to be running a lot more power, going at least 10mph quicker (120mph+) into the last turn, plus they're running soft tyres.
More power would mean burning more fuel.
