Man, I'm really bad at this one. Too slow. I'm using the Audi R10 Stealth Model with stock PP and RH tires. One pit stop and the best I can get is 12th. The right rear wears down much faster than the rest of the tires. Any suggestions to help promote even tire wear? Maybe a camber adjustment is in order? My average lap times are around 1:40 or so. Since I'm so slow I thought maybe I could make up some time with a 1-stop strategy, but I'm finishing about 40-50 seconds behind the leader.
With no braking guides, this track is one of the banes of my existence. Not to mention the late afternoon sunset that renders the driving line practically invisible on the infield.
I found this to be a bit difficult also. For a while I thought my Geezership had finally kicked in. I started with the 787B but found it kind of squirrely even with race soft. Multiple spinouts, indefinitely prolonged...... They won't have to cut the grass at Daytona for some time!!
I began to study the lap time board during the replays and noticed the leading Pescarolo only pitted once and used race mediums. I happened to have a Pesci in my hangar, so I dusted it off, tuned it according to Praiano, fitted it with race mediums, and off I went. I found the tire wear to be better and I was able to pit one lap further in then the leading Pesci.
The one thing that is not good, is that the Praiano Pesci is quite weird on the banking, darting or hunting from the line with the G-27 wheel rock steady in my "death grip". I'm sure someone here could help with a tuning suggestion here to alleviate this weird weave! It may be that the combo of downforce/GeeForce on the banking is compressing the suspension too much?!?! The Pesci seems bit faster than the 787B especially in acceleration to top speed, and steadier in the (non-banked) corners. I suspect that the 691PP limit for this race was written for this car as the Pecarolo C-60 Hybride-Judd comes in stock at that 691PP. Coincidence?? Probably not!
After perusal of the lap time board after a race I noticed that the winning A.I. Pesci did not really have very fast lap times. I was able to hold the single lap record for one race with the 787B for instance, running a clean lap at 1:30.122 even though I lost the race dismally. Anyway, I found that the Pesci would allow me to pick up around 10 seconds per lap on whoever was leading at any one time, which is better than the 787B, even though that one is my fave LMP race car.
Another thing that was costing me seconds of time was that I was entering the pits too fast and then found that after new tires and fuel that I would be held in the pits for interminable seconds in penalty for my infraction. You can tell when you are getting this because the little red brake symbol shows up on the display until you are released,even though you do not have the brake pedal depressed, or park brake on.
I think we kind of adopt a "do or die, giterdone" attitude with the short seasonals where you only have a very few laps to charge through the pack, whereas here we need to be rock solid and consistent keeping tire wear and fuel consumption in the awareness loop as well. I have to talk to myself a lot and ask myself how many seconds will a "bus stop spinout" into the fence cost me no matter how many fast laps I run?? With this race, the SRF ON makes consistency more difficult than normal so ..... just something else to keep in mind. With the C-60, I was able to win 1 lap up on all cars so it has the capability.
Cheers, Pete
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