Help With Circuit De La Sarthe 24h II

[Marco Polo]

I've been searching on this forum for some help, I have completed all the endurance races with golds, except this one, I have tried, the Minolta, Audi R8, BMW Mclaren and even the Formula Gran turismo car. All in B Spec Mode.

My Bspec is at 7472, macine skill 82, Course skill 74, Battle skill 73.

I can never win this race.

What am i doing wrong here???

Marco

 

[Famine]

Don't put the B-Spec driver higher than 4 at any point, and adjust the gears to give him a 225/230mph top speed. You should walk it in nearly anything.

 

[samj_13]

Famine gave an excellent suggestion, and I'll follow it up.

One idea is to do the race in A-Spec. Trust me, it's a lot easier if you just do it in little sprints, about 3 hours at a time. B-spec isn't very reliable in longer races, unless you have a pure overkill car.

Another tip for B-spec is to raise the suspension up a few millimeters to give it some more travel room. The B-spec driver can get twitchy on Mulsanne (the big straight), and this should help a great deal.

Another is to put the brake balance up to 5/5 from 3/3 because this helps stop the car quicker.

One more is to make sure you keep a close eye on the race, as you may know. It'll keep you up to date.

I have done the Sarthe II enduro in A-spec and B-spec, and I used an Audi R8 in B-spec. Just follow Famine's and my tips and it should get you the Speed 8.

 

[SirBerra]

Use the most HP (get a Stage 4 Turbo) the car has available and set the top speed to what the other members said. Use a setting of 3 and Overtake* (*which is absolutely necessary in order to pass slower cars). As said, don't put that setting any higher than 3 or the cars will run off-course.

I've used several cars, including the Audi R8, Sauber Mercedes, Mazda 787B and my favorite Minolta Toyota 88C-V. Use a combo of R3/R2 tires (Front Medium/Rear Hard). Any of the above cars easily won by many laps. And that was when there were only about 2,000 B-spec points. It's the cars speed in this case, and not B-spec driving skill that wins that Sarthe race. Your vehicle couldn't lose if it tried. I've only watched a little bit of the race in B-spec. Usually I was sound asleep or out doing something else when the race was running.

I've also run the 24 hours Sarthe three times in A-spec and hated it. I'm sure you will too.

 

[BobK]

I've used the FGT with no adjustments whatsoever and won easily with a B-spec driver with somewhere around 8300 pts.

As other people have pointed out, leave it at pace 3 with overtake on. It seems some people believe that pace 4 is faster than pace 3 and pace 5 faster still, but this is not necessarily true. Paces 4 and 5 have their uses, but this is not the thread to discuss that.

 

[picos]

is it possible to skip hours? ive finished all the endurance races except the 24 hour ones and the 8 hour one.

 

[BobK]

is it possible to skip hours? ive finished all the endurance races except the 24 hour ones and the 8 hour one.

Skip hours? Umm, no, gotta run the whole thing. However if you're running in B-spec you can speed the game up to three times normal speed but you have to repeat after every pit stop.

 

[samj_13]

However if you're running in B-spec you can speed the game up to three times normal speed but you have to repeat after every pit stop.

Which is why you must keep an eye on the race, or just leave the PS2 on overnight, while you're at school/work, etc.

 

[Mind SV]

I put in it in B Spec, with the F1 car, not the black edition, put it on four untill he passed everyone which was about 2 laps at most, then put it on 2 so he conserves his tyres for less pits stops, he slowly kept lapping them.

 

[david_number1]

Even using fully tuned 88C-V, R8, FGT and others i still couldn't win this race with b-spec. Eventually i used a black Toyota GT-one and won the race by 2.5 secs (!!!) on b-spec (3 and overtake). I think you just have to keep trying!

 

[DLRgian]

I remember doing it with medium tires in the front and hard tires in the rear with a Sauber Mercedes C9, B-spec pits every 6 laps but if you are confident and drive for the first hour to make a nice gap then go to B-spec put it to 3 and overtake and he should walk through it nicely.