Weather related question: Dry racing line?

[XPLOSV]

Ok, so I havent raced a weather effected track long enough to see what happens. So what happens once the rain stops? Does a dry line appear? Or does the entire track dry at the same rate, or does it even dry at all (i.e. stay wet for ever)?

Image below of a dry line to illustrate what I'm talking about.

 

[Mic_Col]

I've done a few wet weather races, actual enduros. 2hr N'ring at night with damage setting at heavy, fun times.

What's cool with the rain in GT5 is that there are varying levels of rain, it looks different, the real heavy rain will have notably bigger splash circles. When that happens your grip level drops further, so you gotta keep an eye out for it and be ready to drive extra careful.

To answer your original question, no there's nothing like a dry line that appears when the rain stops.

But there is still plenty of realism to how the wet track transitions to dry. You need to keep the wet tyres on for a while, you can't just change to drys right away, it'd be a bad idea. You can judge the wetness/dryness of the track by the amount of spray the cars kick up. If you're on the track alone, keep checking the rear view to see how much spray there is from your own car.

The weather feature of the game is very well done, it's a shame that most players don't like it and most organised series avoid it.

 

[dude2106]

To answer your original question, no there's nothing like a dry line that appears when the rain stops.

yes there is. It is sadly not visible on the track, but try to drive on the racing line and look behind, there is very little spray but when you move off line there is plenty of water being thrown into the air by the tyres.
If there is a difference in grip though, i don't know.

 

[TenEightyOne]

To answer your original question, no there's nothing like a dry line that appears when the rain stops.

yes there is. It is sadly not visible on the track, but try to drive on the racing line and look behind, there is very little spray but when you move off line there is plenty of water being thrown into the air by the tyres.
If there is a difference in grip though, i don't know.

Dude2106 is right!

I was in a 25-lap Lexus race at Monza a couple of weeks ago. At the beginning of the race the rain had only just stopped and the track was still very wet. The pack started on full race wets.

We noticed that as the track began to dry (and the lap times crept up) the spray on the racing line was less than the spray off-line. I took the plunge and went straight to slicks as soon as the spray on-line was negligible.

The car was great as long as I stayed on-line... sadly I put the tyres about a foot onto the wet and did a long, inelegant 360 into a wall.

That's a great feature of the game (the drying line, not my hopeless spins ).

Two problems though;

1) The line isn't visible as it dries, you just have to know where the line is.
2) In the wet most people drive OFF the line, but the racing line still dries first

 

[One99]

yes there is. It is sadly not visible on the track, but try to drive on the racing line and look behind, there is very little spray but when you move off line there is plenty of water being thrown into the air by the tyres.
If there is a difference in grip though, i don't know.

Just turned on the racing line and tried this, just shows you learn something new everyday.

 

[ZEROX]

Dry racing line exist in the game but only one can be see.

Try racing in HSR (changeble weather) in arcade mode for about 20 laps. You'll see it.
I've race there for more than 10 times. It is confirmed.

 

[jedi09]

After doing the Suzuka 1000 I noticed after it stopped raining, the dry line started to appear on the conventional racing line after several laps, and if you as much as dipped a wheel outside that dry line, the car would get "pulled" into the wet area of the track. At first I didn't catch on so I thought my suspension was damaged.

 

[Mic_Col]

^^^Replying to all the above.

Okay, I did not know that.

So here's me, I'm the guy who starts with "I've done a lot of wet racing so I know what I'm talking about!" and then writes up something that's totally wrong.

I'll now know what to look for.

 

[Disco_Mikey]

I just done the Endurance race in Suzuka. Can someone explain that when its raining heavily, there is more grip on RH, that there is on full Rain tyres?

 

[Sohvakettu]

It's the grip reduction that stays on low in single player races. The wet tires are only needed when grip reduction is set to real and that is only possible in practice and online races.