New Seasonal at La Sarthe: Bob wants to pit all the time

[alhajoth]

I need 6 (six!) attempts before I won the Sarthe-race.

I finally won using the Nissan R89C.
Like many others, I had problems in Mulsanne-corner, Bob would overshoot and instead of going back on the track he would coast along at 50 km/h with one tire on the grass for 10 seconds, losing me the equivalent of pit-stop
He did this at least once per race, even though I tried my best to cool him down.


The tactics that worked best for me was: start with RH, pit at end of lap 2, switch to intermeds, than pit again at end of lap 7. And watch the entire race, don't leave him alone for a second...

If the reduced-traction figure is less than 20(or thereabouts..), the AI wants to pit for racing hards, above that he will pit for intermediate. That's why you're seeing the unwanted pitstops.

I thought this would be a great race for grinding, but now I'm not so sure. Too difficult to win..

 

[GReeK_W1ZaRd]

Yeah if you'd rather win in a more honest fashion then the 2J isn't for you. With each race taking 40 minutes though, there's only so many restarts one person can stand before wanting to just win at any cost. I would've rather won with my 787B but 2 hours later with no wins is a bit...

Yup, I know how that feels. I didnt spend 2 hours, simply because my patience isn't of that level. After 4-5 tries, I quitted. Lets see how the 2J goes against those beasts.....

 

[deadcat777]

Bob is just stupid. My freaking dumb Bob crashes at the same corner during the first lap every single time. WTF? B-spec is a FAIL!

 

[themartlab]

If you want an almost certain victory, use a 2J on sports softs. Unlike race hards, sports softs can handle the wet stuff too and can last the full 10 laps with room to spare. So, don't pit at all and let the opponents do their usual 2-stop nonsense.

It's a cheap method though.

What's your top speed and final drive ratio on your gearbox? Thanks!

 

[Famine]

Bob is just stupid. My freaking dumb Bob crashes at the same corner during the first lap every single time. WTF? B-spec is a FAIL!

Stop him from running on worn tyres or too much in the red on his mood bar then.

I'm running a Lv38 Bob in a 691PP CLK-LM (820hp or so, 1000kg, 246mph on the gearbox). I've found that if I start him on Racing Hard tyres and give him three laps on those, he can make a good fist of the third (sacrificial) lap and then do 7 full laps on the Inters. He loses a bit of lap time to the leaders on laps 6 and 7 for that set, but they all pit at lap 9 (6th lap on the Inters)...

The trick is to get him absolutely raging at the start and up close to the BMW V12 LMR, then bring his mood back down to just over the centre. If you can get ahead of the BMW before you both stop on lap 3, good. If not it's of no consequence. Then just coast him round seven laps with his mood just over centre. He'll keep the tyres good while the track dries, then gain 50s on the lead pack as they all pit.

 

[McClarenDesign]

Stop him from running on worn tyres or too much in the red on his mood bar then.

I'm running a Lv38 Bob in a 691PP CLK-LM (820hp or so, 1000kg, 246mph on the gearbox). I've found that if I start him on Racing Hard tyres and give him three laps on those, he can make a good fist of the third (sacrificial) lap and then do 7 full laps on the Inters. He loses a bit of lap time to the leaders on laps 6 and 7 for that set, but they all pit at lap 9 (6th lap on the Inters)...

The trick is to get him absolutely raging at the start and up close to the BMW V12 LMR, then bring his mood back down to just over the centre. If you can get ahead of the BMW before you both stop on lap 3, good. If not it's of no consequence. Then just coast him round seven laps with his mood just over centre. He'll keep the tyres good while the track dries, then gain 50s on the lead pack as they all pit.

What postion was the BMW in when you made the pass? I ask because when I made a few attempts last night, the grid was different each time.

 

[MoLiEG]

My guy, Mr. Navarro, did fine on the 1st 5 laps of the race, however, on the 2nd part (last 5 laps), he showed no ambtition at all... he didn't want to go for it, and he had plenty of oportunities to overtake... no matter how hard I insisted him, we wouldn't go for it... instead, he decided to make stupid moves, lost some time, and finally, went from 4th to 6 in just one corner in an idiotic move...

Now Mr. Navarro is enjoying a X-mas retirement... a permanent X-mas retirement...

 

[Famine]

Yeah, I've been in and out a few times, but it seems that wherever the BMW starts, he soon makes his way quickly to the back of the pack - generally 8th or 9th. He then seems to get a bit of wet weather pace and will usually end up 5th or 6th (depending on if one of the Pescarolos, on worn wets on lap 7, stacks it).

 

[K24Boosted]

LVL 28 Bob with 2J at 653pp just took La Sarthe. Started on sport softs. Pit at end of lap 2 for racing intermediates. A lot of coaching to stick with the top 5 cars. Was out of mental and physical strength by lap 7 but he did it. No tread on tires by 9th lap.

I'd suggest raising the top speed on the 2J by atleast 2 clicks as I kept maxing out on straights.

 

[SmileyOr1]

Speaking of the 3,000,000 cr to win. I'm glad I didn't win the race the first try last night. I finished 6th place and I think that was worth 300k credits (x200%) and I lost most of that because I already had close to 20 mil sitting in the bank. Maybe I'll buy another Mark IV

 

[keun4]

The 2J method on soft tires works perfectly thank you VTiRoj.
Also i'd like to mention that nobody should try with the ferarri F1 cars on 700pp because you will have have to race 11 full power F1 cars then.

 

[tibiquera]

Famine is right. I only tried once and got a 5th place after many bad strategy choices, but I could've won if it wasn't for my strategy. The key is to make the inters last those 7 laps. If Bob is too hot, he'll spin the tires exiting the corners, lose a bunch of time and burn all the tires. If he absolutely must do a second stop, then do on lap 8, because he'll lose a ton of speed when the tires are worn.

 

[HondaNSX2011]

Oh well,

I did try to win on my pescarolos GV5 Judd but it it still change when it start on 1st lap then suddenly it is rain into 3 lap change into rain tyres but the yellow Pit show me then go change again into racing hard tyres and driving too slow when take turn. i been change car 3 times and i give up and decided to quit Ps3 cos I have broken ps3 control pad because of that. grrrrr

Martyn

 

[Kwicko]

Haven't tried it on my main account yet, but I tried Le Sarthe on a second account with a Level 19 Bob, and he failed miserably. Came in dead last, in fact, despite being as high as 6th on Lap 8.

He leveled up a bit, though, and when I tried again, he came in 8th in the same car.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to try it with my main account and a couple L40 Bobs later tonight (when I get the TV back from my wife, that is!).

 

[VTiRoj]

What's your top speed and final drive ratio on your gearbox? Thanks!

I set the max speed to 249mph/400kmh and final at 4.100. Didn't touch the individual ratios. 👍

 

[Sobek]

I've tried the event about an hour ago with the Toyota Gt-One car and i got 3rd.... after my driver gave up the lead when he wrecked on the last lap at the mulsanne corner.

I just noticed a Bentley Speed 8 in my UCD.... how good is that car?

 

[RustyGunzz]

My winning combo:
BOB - LVL 40
Car - Pescarolo Courage - Judd GV5 in the OCD
Tune - Transsmission only max speed up to 249mph nothing else not even oil change
Strategy - start race with RH then at the end of lap 3 (you should be in 5 or 6 place depending on lineup) pit and put on RI (Intermediate) and the same at the end of lap 7-8 (you should be in first or second). Try and keep the driver cool (in the middle of the bar) this should avoid spins or going off the track. As long as you are ahead of the leaders after the second stop you should win, but dont let BOB cool down to much the AI can catch you.

I have won with this strategy 5 times now with different line ups everytime. You will need the babysit the entire race, while typing this I am running the race and not paying attention just cost me the win due to an off track run after the straight.

edit ..... you may need to cancel pits at the end of the race watch for this.
edit #2 .... i just remembered DO NOT do an oil change on this car once youve bought it from the OCD it changes the HP and you need to pull more power back to get under the PP limit.

 

[Amateur1]

It took me a few tries as well but this is what worked for me.

I used the Bentley Speed 8, starting with racing hards. It seemed important to set the downforce to max and strong brakes (9/9) as I tried backing these off a little to be able to up the HP once but they kept screwing up the corners when I did that.

The best strategy seems to be pit early (earlier than what it will default to).
-Start on RH, pit at the end of lap two and change to racing-intermediate (this allows you to get a head start in the wet conditions over some of the others) and change drivers (I may be mis-interpreting but a lot of the discussions seem to be talking about using just one driver? The event requires two).

-Pit at the end of lap 8 and change tyres to another set of Racing-Intermediates and change drivers again. Bob will want to pit on lap 9 like the others do (even though he's only been out for one lap), so cancel that.

I tried changing to RH on the last session like some of the other cars seem to but it was like driving on ice so you need to do the last session on intermediates as well.

I kept both drivers at the top end of the scale for the whole race and, after the 3rd lap, I never saw another car anywhere near me. Keeping the second driver up on the pace from laps 3 to 8 meant that, even when I pitted on lap 8, I still came out of the pits ahead of any following cars.

I hope this helps others have some success.

Cheers,
Amateur1

 

[RustyGunzz]

^^^^^^^^ the event does not REQUIRE 2 drivers its recommended but 1 LVL 40 can do it no problem

 

[Amateur1]

^^^^^^^^ the event does not REQUIRE 2 drivers its recommended but 1 LVL 40 can do it no problem

Fair enough. I didn't know that as I haven't got a lvl 40 Bob yet. I tried getting my Lvl 38 Bob to do 8 laps continuously on my first try (I didn't know the others would do a second pit-stop on lap 9) and it just about killed him. 0 phyisical and mental strength, and he slowed right down on the final lap and stopped dead just on the finish line and I lost by .1 of a second.

It just seemed that using two was one of the keys to success. If you can use two drivers then you might as well so that you can keep the pace of both of them up higher for longer.

Cheers,
Amateur1

 

[NjLowrider]

2j with sports softs worked for me. No pitting at all.

 

[aQuarius26]

Took 1st with the Minolta Toyota 88C-V Race Car '89 with 4 seconds to spare.

Used 2 level 39 Bobs...

849 HP
950 KG
700 PP

DOWNFORCE
F50 R72

Racing Hard to start.

Pitted on the 3RD lap to change only the tires to Intermediate. No driver change.

Ran him pretty hot VIA "Overtake" and got into 2nd by the 8th lap.

Pitted on the 8th lap for a new set of Intermediate tires & a new driver. This put me in 6th place by the time I exited the pits.

Overtook everyone while they were in the pits on the 9th lap and kept Bob pretty hot to finish comfortably yet in exciting fashion with 4 seconds to spare.

 

[axl54]

hahaha, 1st place going into final my final lap and my retarded bob decides to pit completley unecessarily.
I click ok, thinking the intermediate's will be chosen by default. But that would make too much sense
Bob equips RH = we lose...... again. another 40 mins of my life down the drain.
Thanks Pd! How about some kind of warning signal when retard BOB is going to PIT, in your next inevitable patch?

 

[Kwicko]

There IS a signal when Bob is going to pit - you'll notice the yellow "P" indicator just to the left of his hot/cool meter. Sometimes he'll insist on pitting, but you can order him not to.

 

[NaViTo]

hahaha, 1st place going into final my final lap and my retarded bob decides to pit completley unecessarily.
I click ok, thinking the intermediate's will be chosen by default. But that would make too much sense
Bob equips RH = we lose...... again. another 40 mins of my life down the drain.
Thanks Pd! How about some kind of warning signal when retard BOB is going to PIT, in your next inevitable patch?

There is a signal that he is goign to pit in, a P with yellow background that appears on the HUD next to your Bob Helmet.

Salu2

 

[BlueGT]

After many tries and fails I won both race easily with same amount of pit stop than the other racers. SPA: Arta NSX LaSarthe: Audi R8 TeamPlayStation '05. The 2J didn't work for me at all, was took over by everybody in straight lines.

 

[axl54]

There is a signal that he is goign to pit in, a P with yellow background that appears on the HUD next to your Bob Helmet.

Salu2

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it.
Some kind of vocal indicator like Bob saying 'Going to pit now'
and player (pressing command) responding ' Oh hell noes... drive on biatch ' would be better imo.

 

[KeithG]

RustyGunzz strategy works like a charm, thanks Rusty 👍

I used the Pescarolo Courage - Judd GV5 and two drivers a Lvl 33 and a Lvl 29. Changed divers on both stops and won going away. I was in third at the first stop and had the lead by lap 4 and only gave it up when I pitted at the end of lap 8, I fell to fourth place but passed the third place car before they all pitted on lap 9, passed the first two cars while the were in the pits, kept Bob in the middle of his bar and won the 6 million.

 

[SAVoxleitner]

Doing La Sarthe with the 2J. At first, I thought, "No way in hell this will work. Then as I soon as I got into first place, I said, "No 🤬 way."
Victory is within my grasp, by a rather large margin.

 

[themartlab]

Doing La Sarthe too, with the 2J, Bob lvl 38, on sport softs. I'm first since the end of lap 3 when they pitted. Currently at 2/3 of lap 8 and i have a good lead, half way gas tank, Bob just get in grass, good recovery.

Edit: crossing fingers. Lap 10. Colin McRae is driving my 2J. 3 times grass drifting, keeping control.