I just noticed something...

[claythrow]

When using overtake, in the two races I've tried since discovering it, it does not affect the personality bar like pace up does. It sometimes moves it a little, but pace up you can swing from one end of the scale to the other in a handful of presses. It seems like pace up could be useful for more than I thought.

 

[claythrow]

in fact, his personality bar can actually become cooler while he is in overtake mode...which is not how I imagined it working.

 

[RSnider]

The overtake command just tells the driver to take a different line. For example, if the cars are fairly evenly matched so you can't just blow past them on the straights, the overtake command will make your AI driver try to out brake the competition AI driver.

 

[Airscrew]

yep, overtake works well when your driver is riding up behind the other car and not passing you can kind of urge him to pass, especially on curves, to push his way in and overtake the next car.

 

[claythrow]

So if he is all alone and you hit overtake will he drive faster, slower or the same as if you hit pace up?

 

[Lambob]

I noticed overtake command works particularly well, when your Bob is maintaining a pace, has 1/4 hot stamina, and about 3 to 5 car lenghts behind, Overtake at this moment, and Bob will do some clean passes. He drove the BMW V12 nice and clean, except when in full HOT mode, he crashed hard. Lapped the AI though.