Anything that is towards the top of the current online races will be ok - Supra, GTR, 911, R.S.01, etc.
I used the GTR 18. Like the previous poster, the timing of your pitting will determine your outcome. For myself I went in for wets well before the AI and caught everyone on the outlap during the downpour.
Grinding Le Mans vs racing RBR in a Gr.3 car against some of the hardest AI the game has are 2 very different things. I did this race back before the v1.31 physics change. At the time I ran the Mazda since it had the best fuel consumption, but there seems to have been changes in the BoP to the Gr.3 and Gr.4 cars, so there is likely a better "meta" car that you could take. That said, the Porsche, the GT-R, the Supra are probably all good cars that will perform well in the race. I doubt the strategy has changed in a post v1.31 world, but give it a shot and see how you do. If it gives you problems, come back and let us know what issues you had. Maybe we can help.
Red Bull Ring is definitly more about managing the tyre changes over anything else.
I played around with it a bit yesterday on tsukuba, it seemed like it was still a thing but it also kind of felt like it just made a difference exiting in and out of the mission and resorting the grid.
Yes I tested it today on Lake Maggiore
The GT-R is a perfect car for this race. I use it on FM6 and I only need 1 refuel at the end of the 4th lap. Easy win.
The default AI is not Sophy, Sophy would consistently do the best laps possible.Yes I tested it today on Lake Maggiore
On hard level, Yamanaka is on 2:01.01 at the end of the 1st lap.
On easy level, he is on 2:00.783.
In my futile attempt to convince you otherwise, I cant confirm this difficulty bug
The difficulty bug is very weak on that particular race. If you do your testing on Tsukuba it will give you a far clearer picture. I did testing previously on RBR too, and would stand by the assessment that Medium is harder than Hard.In my futile attempt to convince you otherwise, I cant confirm this difficulty bug
Well yes of course the more time you spent on the track, the higher the chance the AI will do a fast lap.
Usually you would lap fastest shortly after pitting, with less fuel and perfect tyres, so for the AI it would be after their last stop (1stop, 2stop, 3stop).
Though still, after waiting for hours I dont see any relation of AI difficulty to lap times or race total time. AI on average finishes at about 61minutes.
3 hours of easy -> 1:56,875
3 hours of medium -> 1:57:288
30+ hours of difficult -> 1:56,917
It is too random to quantify, the difference can easily be explained by different windstrength and direction.
And I dont see any 1 second faster time per lap like you said in the other thread
And then consider the AI isnt doing their fastest laps anywhere close to regularly.
In my old test of nearly all Gr.3 cars the fastest AI time I have seen would have beaten me in 26 races, yet the AI actually only won 2 races.
Giving up because the Supra is pulling away in its first 8 laps is wrong, because the Supra will lose more time in the pits than all other cars.
Giving up because of a single fast lap of the AI creates a wrong picture of the race in total, because it might just have been a fluke: AI with close to empty tank following other cars in a perfect drafting position at the perfect spot of the track and then overtake multiple times per lap - this is likely to happen after Medium Tyre AI has pitted and then catches up with Hard Tyre AI.
