Test Course 500KM (Single Race) [B-Spec]

[FranticFury]

Lenth: 300miles/500km= 47 Laps
Car: Nissan Pennzoil Nisimo GT-R (JGTC) '99

Starting Grid
1. Ford RS200 Rally Car '85 (426HP)
2. AMG Mercedies 190E EvoII Touring Car (382HP)
3. Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Evo2 Rally Car (455HP)
4. Lancia Deilta S4 Rally Car '85 (455HP)
5. Mitsubishi FTO Super Touring Car '97 (429HP)
6. Nissan Penzoil Nismo GT-R '99 (498HP)

Highlights:
Lap 1: Lancia Delta Jumps into lead. At the end of the first lap, Me and the FTO are 1st-2nd

Lap 3: Me and FTO pulls away from the rest of the cars

Lap 7: Leader, FTO Laps 4th,5th, and 6th place.

Lap 8: Takes the Lead, but FTO drafts by me.

Lap 10: AMG Mercadies +1:16 back

Lap 13: Puts the tail 3 cars 2 Laps back

Lap 14: Takes the lead, Gains 2 seconds over the FTO

Lap 15: FTO Takes the lead back

Lap 16: FTO Pits (102.88miles)

Lap 18: with a 36 second lead, I go into the pits.

Lap 19: FTO with a 5 Second Lead

Lap 22: I'm back 10 second behind the FTO. FTO Laps more cars

Lap 27: 20 Second Lead for the FTO

Lap 29: 1 Hour into the Race

Lap 31: FTO Pits for the Final Time

Lap 34: Makes my 2nd stop. Only had a 8 second lead.

Lap 37: AMG Mercadies is 2 Laps back in 3rd place. 4th to 6th is +5 Laps back

Lap 43: 1H 1/2 into the race

Lap 46: +44 seconds back to the FTO

Lap 47: +47 Seconds back

Finish: FTO Wins, +0'49.692 over Me.

Results
Pos-Car-Time
1. Misubishi FTO 1:39'05.658
2. Nissian GT-R +0'49.692
3. AMG Mercadies +2 Laps
4. Lancia Delta +6 Laps
5. Ford RS200 +6 Laps
6. Peugeot 206 +6 Laps

B-Spec Stats

 

[Emohawk]

The only suprise to me here is that the FTO beat you.
I assume you did no tuning for this track (reducing downforce, cranking up gear ratios). In my experience, they don't do these things either, so there's no way he would have won if you did.
Even stock-for-stock though, I'd have put my money on the Skyline. Maybe your Bspec guy just sucks that much. Too bad, it's such a dissapointment when they loose the race for you.
The rest of the field is totally predictable. Brick of a touring car, followed distantly by all three of the close gear ratioed, high downforce rally cars.
What was PD thinking selecting the AI lineup for this race? The test course is one for LMPs if I ever saw one. (and then you could have fun standing up to them in high-power, low-drag street car.)

 

[FranticFury]

The only suprise to me here is that the FTO beat you.
I assume you did no tuning for this track (reducing downforce, cranking up gear ratios). In my experience, they don't do these things either, so there's no way he would have won if you did.
Even stock-for-stock though, I'd have put my money on the Skyline. Maybe your Bspec guy just sucks that much. Too bad, it's such a dissapointment when they loose the race for you.
The rest of the field is totally predictable. Brick of a touring car, followed distantly by all three of the close gear ratioed, high downforce rally cars.
What was PD thinking selecting the AI lineup for this race? The test course is one for LMPs if I ever saw one. (and then you could have fun standing up to them in high-power, low-drag street car.)

I started using B-Spec just a few days ago, so yeah, my co-driver isnt the greatest. I was gonna go A-Spec on the final pit stop, but the FTO was too far ahead. If I was racing A-Spec at the start, It would of been a whole lot closer. I never really get into the tuning part. I'm more confortable with the defult setup, but i know that it can help majorly if i do adjust somethings.

 

[Fonce Diablo]

There's a B-Spec skill guide around here somewhere...

Anyway, I *knew* my favorite old FTO Super Touring was great...but...not that great... o.o

 

[Emohawk]

Tuning for the high speed ring is probably about the easiest tuning you can do.
Downforce: minimum
Transmission auto setting: way++
Tires: Super hard
Probably ride hight reduction helps too, but then you have to mess with damping and spring rates to compensate.

 

[Alfaholic]

Tuning for the high speed ring is probably about the easiest tuning you can do.
Downforce: minimum
Transmission auto setting: way++
Tires: Super hard
Probably ride hight reduction helps too, but then you have to mess with damping and spring rates to compensate.

Agreed. Put downforce down, put auto gears up. 200 a-spec points are then simple in something like a ZZ2 since the AI never seem to go much above 230mph on this circuit no matter what they are driving, and there are plenty of road cars in the game that have been touching the wild side of 300mph apparently.

Probably a decent race to get some experience into b-spec Bob though, since there aren't really any corners he can screw up.

 

[wing_0]

There's a B-Spec skill guide around here somewhere...

Anyway, I *knew* my favorite old FTO Super Touring was great...but...not that great... o.o

I would bet on the FTO, if that was the race car from the older GT's. That 600 BHP one, oh, pure love

But yeah, the B-Spec guy tends to be afraid of high speeds, not that good choice in that race...