Pickup Truck challenge at Daytona
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- Droptop2001gt
You could try setting his brake balance to 0/0 to see if that will reduce his speed loss before you buy a whole new vehicle.
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- Nick_c_888
i had a fully maxed dodge ram for this (used it for my a-spec american champ) because i love it, mullered the first race but even with over 700bhp the tacoma was ahead untill the last lap on the oval, tacoma seems to be the way or fiddle with custom tranny setting and you might just do it.
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- turbogeit
I took a Chevy, which I put over 400 hp, but it couldn't win (tried at least 20 times). So I decided to do something else and completed the whole level and the next level. But the Tacuma still didn't show up in the used cars. My driver was at 5 or 6 (don't remember exactly) by the first series of attempts. After completing the complete third level, my driver was at 14, I believe. So I tried again and won easily by the first attempt. I read similar stories on the French planete-gt forum: for some races, if you don't have the right car, you need a driver with a level much higher than the required level.
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- iNiff
I tried that, doesn't change much.
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I went back to that one with a lv 23 Bob and maxed out my dodge truck and won with ease .
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- dougdoberman
I won this with my on-level Bob driving a Lightning.
Weight Reduction Stage 3
Window Weight Reduction
ECU
Engine Tuning Stage 2
Sports Air Filter
Catalytic Converter: Sports
Titanium Racing Exhaust
Supercharger
Single Plate Clutch
Sports Flywheel
Fixed Sports suspension
Sports: Hard tires
591 HP 625 after a desperately needed oil change. (It was at 591 for the race)
This is a somewhat motley crew of tuning parts but I believe that it's the first car that I actually needed to tune to win a race and the upgrades were dictated by the amount of credits I had.
I needed just a couple hundred XP for the next B-Spec level, so I just reran it with my lowest level driver. He's level 20, so admittedly a good bit higher than many folks will be running this race. He won going away, uncoached. The rest of the field pretty much stayed in a pack, finished 15 - 20 seconds behind. A pair of Toyota's and a pair of SSR's took the next 4 spots with the rest of the models pretty randomly spread.
I don't remember this race being overly difficult. I think I maya had to run it a time or two in order to gold it, but I think that just pretty standard coaching got Bob through when he was on-level.
Of course, I selected my first Bob to have the best braking skills as I could, so maybe that helped him a bit when he was on-level. Overbraking in these heavy beasts can kill any speed you've got and they're awful slow to gain that speed back.
Weight Reduction Stage 3
Window Weight Reduction
ECU
Engine Tuning Stage 2
Sports Air Filter
Catalytic Converter: Sports
Titanium Racing Exhaust
Supercharger
Single Plate Clutch
Sports Flywheel
Fixed Sports suspension
Sports: Hard tires
591 HP 625 after a desperately needed oil change. (It was at 591 for the race)
This is a somewhat motley crew of tuning parts but I believe that it's the first car that I actually needed to tune to win a race and the upgrades were dictated by the amount of credits I had.
I needed just a couple hundred XP for the next B-Spec level, so I just reran it with my lowest level driver. He's level 20, so admittedly a good bit higher than many folks will be running this race. He won going away, uncoached. The rest of the field pretty much stayed in a pack, finished 15 - 20 seconds behind. A pair of Toyota's and a pair of SSR's took the next 4 spots with the rest of the models pretty randomly spread.
I don't remember this race being overly difficult. I think I maya had to run it a time or two in order to gold it, but I think that just pretty standard coaching got Bob through when he was on-level.
Of course, I selected my first Bob to have the best braking skills as I could, so maybe that helped him a bit when he was on-level. Overbraking in these heavy beasts can kill any speed you've got and they're awful slow to gain that speed back.
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- Crash79
I struggled a lot for the earlier races but now my BOB's are more experienced they are now doing the races with ease that they couldn't do earlier? Annoying that it has took a lot of grinding in powerful cars to get there but I suppose thats the only way to get them better at driving?
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- spitfire143
I noticed with my Lightning, not fully modded, but pretty good, I had to tell Bob to pass and pick up the pace more to win that one. And I had to tune it better for him to win.
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- GTP_ScepTer_ / ScepTer_
I got Bob to win with a fully modded Ram...tires were still stock though, his level was only 1 or 2 above the entry requirement but he was able to get it done. I noticed the more I tried to speed him up using commands the slower he was, he would brake mid corner, get stuck behind other cars etc when I tried to get him to speed up. I ended up only giving him increase pace commands at the exits of turn 2 and 4 just as he was getting onto the straights and he was much faster overall and stopped braking mid corner. 2 Tacomas were drafting him hard out of the last corner on the last lap but he was smart enough to move over and block the run they had on him.
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- dougdoberman
People seem to think that all they need to do is keep telling him "Faster, FASTER!" and he'll zoom away.
There's actually some strategy involved with your coaching. You heat him up and make him agitated, he's gonna make more mistakes. Including getting too hard on the brakes.
There have been races where I was REQUIRED to continually tell him to slow his pace in order to win. If left alone or told to speed up at all, he'd ovedrive and get sloppy. Slowing him down kept him controlled through all the corners. Eventually the AI would bobble and I"d be able to tell him to "Overtake" and gain a spot. All the way to the front.
As I think I said above, I don't remember how I had to coach him here. I know it DID take some coaching when he was on-level. Turning his brakes down to 1-0 certainly helped as well.
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i used a chevy silverado SST that I happened to have from my a-spec race. It was incredibly hard to get bob to win with it - eventually i ended up buying every single mod i could (got it up to 902 HP). Tuned transmision top speed down to 155 mph, and per the helpful posts here the break balance to 1 (front) and 0 (rear) which finally did the trick.
In retrospect should have just bought the tacoma and saved 200K in tuning money but at least now I have a something that is almost as heavy and fast as the Jay Leno tank car :-)
In retrospect should have just bought the tacoma and saved 200K in tuning money but at least now I have a something that is almost as heavy and fast as the Jay Leno tank car :-)
