Serving Penalty in Pit

[shnooby2]

I don't know if this is well known, or needs to be tested, but it seems to me that you can serve penalties by taking more fuel than what is "recommended" while in pit road. I had never tried this before, but in my race just barely at brands, I received a ridiculous 10 second penalty on the first lap. I didn't get a chance to wear any of it off before it was time to pit on lap 8. I needed 7 laps of fuel to finish the race, but decided to let it go to 7.8 laps, which probably took an extra second or two approximately. When I exited the pits, my penalty had dropped from 10 seconds to 3.7 seconds! Has anybody else tried this out before?

 

[05XR8]

I don't know if this is well known, or needs to be tested, but it seems to me that you can serve penalties by taking more fuel than what is "recommended" while in pit road. I had never tried this before, but in my race just barely at brands, I received a ridiculous 10 second penalty on the first lap. I didn't get a chance to wear any of it off before it was time to pit on lap 8. I needed 7 laps of fuel to finish the race, but decided to let it go to 7.8 laps, which probably took an extra second or two approximately. When I exited the pits, my penalty had dropped from 10 seconds to 3.7 seconds! Has anybody else tried this out before?

My one an only Gr.2 race earlier, I did get a 1.2 second penalty for too much curb at BH. Being that I was a fee corners from the main straight and worn tyres, I pitted. I did fill up all the way and when I exited, penalty gone.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

You lose the penalty while entering the pit. It looks like the game has set the entry speed wrong and assumes you charge in there at full speed. The pit entrance has also been moved further back, before you could aim for the outside wall of the first corner and enter the pit at near full speed. Now you have to slow all the way down and make all the corners, yet as a bonus the penalty time counts down fast while navigating the turns. Even a 9 second penalty was pretty much gone before the pit accepted me in.

 

[Macboyilija]

Ooops

 

[Haitauer]

So.. One can basically cut few corners during pit-in lap and save time. Interesting..