What is the best car for the 24 minute endurances?

The Stig Farmer

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So I've golded every race in the Super events, apart from the the two 24 minute mini-endurances at Spa and Le Mans. I've tried both with the Audi R18 TDI and the DeltaWing, but they just aren't fast enough. Should I upgrade to a Group C beast? Or go completely off-kilter and enter in something like the Monster SX4?

I really would like the Pikes Peak quattro... for free :indiff:
 
I thought the R18 TDI 15th Anniversary perfectly adequate. After some desperate failures, mind. And overcoming the problem that the tyres wear down much faster after the first stop. And applying several driver aids, hoping that noone has noticed. I have started a new profile, intending not to use the Anniversary cars, and I am rather dreading the mini-endurances.
 
How are you all winning? Strategy or outright speed?

And I'm sure the DeltaWing could do it, just that in stock form it's damn near undrivable and the setup I'm running neuters the performance. Is it any better with assists on (sorry I haven't tried, I'm vain :()?
 
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I used the newer deltawing with racing softs for the whole race and with the awsome gas milage you can skip some of the quick pitstops the rest of the cars make and gain quite a huge lead even when you pit you can still come back out in first. NO RAIN OR INTERMITTED TIERS they kill your time (and chances I found) The Furi is pretty much the same concept.
 
I noticed when the track is wet there is next to no tire wear on slicks. you just have to watch when it dries thats obviously not the case. Le Mans is a perfect example of that, you pretty much have to make your pitstop when you out of fuel and tires are near perfect. Then last half of the race you really need to watch the wear or it could make you make 1 extra pit stop that you really dont have to make. If you really don't want to worry about wear as much start with RS drive hard get a good lead and when you pit and the track dries use RH for last half of the race and you should be ok. Mabey even RM depending how hard you are on tires. (For Le Mans)
 
Both done with the Bentley Speed 8. Started on inters for both, then slicks for the last stint. Smashed the competition at Spa-Francorchamps.. Almost too easy.
 
i won 24 min of le mans in: Minolta, audi R10 stealth and Peugeot 908

i tested the peugeot 908 with turbo and won, then i tested peugeot 908 without turbo to, that gave me slower laptimes (+-0:48 slower per lap) but, without turbo he was able to go to the pit after 3 laps, so i still won. with the turbo he goes faster but had to pit every two laps, so also won. i didn't test this yet for other cars, but i think that will be the same.

i used for all cars i tried: race hard, and the last pit, race soft
 
Pretty much any le mans car really will allow you to win. You'll probably have to pit every other lap on Circuit de la Sarthe, and every 4th lap on Francorchamps. Just make sure you're not up against a Sauber Mercedes C9, which is both extremely fast and only pits every 3rd lap on the Sarthe/6th lap on Francorchamps. Against anything else you should be fine.
 
Shakie666
Pretty much any le mans car really will allow you to win. You'll probably have to pit every other lap on Circuit de la Sarthe, and every 4th lap on Francorchamps. Just make sure you're not up against a Sauber Mercedes C9, which is both extremely fast and only pits every 3rd lap on the Sarthe/6th lap on Francorchamps. Against anything else you should be fine.
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So in other words use a Sauber C9?

:dopey:
 
If you have the anniversary edition, I used the Audi in it, downforce all the way down, racing softs, on a DS3 with TCS on 7 and ABS on 10. Had a 33 second lead at the finish line. I technically could have stopped just short of the line on lap 6 and waited on the clock, but went ahead and ran a lap 7. Changed brake bias to 6/4, probably should have gone 6/3.
 
I won them with a stock Bentley Speed 8.
Strategy is key, and fun.
I love the S races, wish they where longer though.
 
Just posted a thread on it...but why not the Suzuki ESCUDO? Cheaper than any of the le Mans cars, but when you put the turbos in it out accelerates them and can still out corner them.
 
Pescarolo C60 Hybrid for Spa & Le Mans (only oil change and chassis optimization, no turbo added) and for the Nurburgring i used R18 TDI 15th Anniversary (same changes)... The one i had more issues was the Nordshleife one because i used the "movie" light/contrast option of my TV and it is actually very dark, couldn't see the road...

EDIT P.S.: for stock cars (Willow Springs & Ascari) i used a 643PP tuned GT-R...
 
rapida diablo
Just posted a thread on it...but why not the Suzuki ESCUDO? Cheaper than any of the le Mans cars, but when you put the turbos in it out accelerates them and can still out corner them.
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The Escudo aint a terrible car but if this was GT2 then for sure but in the days of GT5 and 6 it's almost become useless in a way. Not bashing the car but their are countless cars in both games that will out drive the Escudo and in GT6 endurance races i've never tried it but seeing that you can dominate the races in a Furi, deltawing, rocket and others it seems that the Escudo would be a really tough car to win in with the need to draft for top speed. I would think the tire wear and gas milage probobly isn't that good either. JMO but it has my interest now I think I want to try it in some S races now. Pikes Peak uphill and downhill needs to come back to GT.
 

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