Winning Chili Pepper Races

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I found that you have to be very aggressive in the opening laps, getting every spot you can.

IE: Ram them off the track

 

[OldandSlow]

IE: Ram them off the track

Not necessarily, but forget the CRB.

 

[Meythia]

They'll dive down the inside if you leave the door open, for example.

Nah, the AI still doesnt make any better decision, the only difference is that the AI is using full throttle.
Still making mistakes, still uses preprogrammed behaviour.

Weird thing is, though, is that they turned in back to back 2:05 laps after their pit and one of them ended up finishing just 7 seconds behind me. My pace did not slow. I'm not sure if that was rubber banding or what, but it didn't feel natural.

Ater pitting and fresh tyres, your laptimes are faster because you carry less fuel. and have full traction again.

I agree with you that they just have faster cars than we do.

That one is very hard to proof, because outside fo the BoP races where we expect them to have identical cars, we simply dont know the setup AI is using.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Ater pitting and fresh tyres, your laptimes are faster because you carry less fuel. and have full traction again.

I wouldn't expect them to run 5+ seconds faster per lap than their best laps towards the beginning of the race.