I’ve noticed the opposite as I have yet to see a dry race here in the last 7 or 8 runs there. I’m actually seeing more of the heavy rain too as it seems to be topping the 2nd bar more often now. It also seems like they cranked up the penalty times a bit as well.
As i run this from one up to 3 times a day am on the @BangsMcCoy side.
95% of the time here I only run cars capable of ~4:00 laps, give or take 5-10 seconds, and if it’s going to rain for me it almost always starts at the very end of lap 2 or very beginning of lap 3. It usually rains to varying amounts for a lap or two then stops and it’s common to see a 2nd, lighter stint of rain around lap 5 somewhere, but not always. I play almost exclusively on Hard difficulty and dry races at LeMans seem less frequent than prior to 1.32. I didn’t run many (if any) races here for the duration of 1.31. I agree, dry races at LeMans are much harder if you’re running a RWD Gr.4 or Gr.3 car.
I use the Porsche LL. I just get the same intensity. I’d would get no rain at all or rain twice( early in the race and return around end of Lap 4 beginning Lap 5). More variety of conditions.
You might have right about aquaplaning,but you're talking about braking.
Oh yeah, the penalty system. Ha! Got caught in the rain on racing hards, ya know that standard "middle of lap 5 downpour" that is totally normal. Anyway, I could not stop at the first chicane so I drove straight through it narrowly avoiding the barrier. 13.5 second penalty. I just exited the race when I saw that flash up. What a waste of 20+ minutes to get hit with that b/s.
Sounds to me that your problem is the car you are using. I can get at least 3 to 4 laps of fuel on the thirstyist of cars. The Honda 272 will return over 10 laps of fuel and do the whole race on a set of RH,last night I “broke “ the split time clock,it got to over 4 minutes difference and then it just went blank,this was in the Lamborghini Mura, I was getting just over the 4 minutes a lap time hitting 200+mph down Mulsanne.All my tunes are done at Le Mans on RH,they are pre ‘72 cars and all can comfortably win the race.
No, it wasnt the car's fault. It was the weather. Rain started towards the end of lap 2, pit for intermediates, rain stops at the end of lap 2, intermediates burn out on lap 3, pit for RH tires and fuel, rain starts again on lap 5, spin out on RH tires, pit for intermediates, super hard rain hits on the main straight of lap 6 and no grip leads to blowing right through the first chicane barriers and getting the 13.5 second penalty. Still had ~7 minutes on the clock and I'm down 30 seconds on the leaders. No way I'm making up 45 seconds in 1.5 laps. Just dumb weather and really poor tire wear with the latest physics update.
