Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[Akers]

Challenges for the week complete. With the changes in the update, several cars need tweaks to their previous configs to meet the PP limits. All completed on Hard, except the F3500 challenge. Honestly, with the AI cars behaving like it was stock car racing rather than Open-wheel, I decided to quit while ahead.
No wonder some drivers in Sport mode think dive-bombing is acceptable, when the AI cars do so regularly. 🙄

 

[DriveSpark]

Thought the F1 race was horrible.

Found that on softs right front gets a lot of wear if you do the last corner flat out, so on to mediums, which hardly wear at all.
On normal difficulty I got pitched in to spins/barriers by the AI who are all over the place.

Don't think much of the car to be honest, on the right-left before the tunnel it wallows about in understeer, don't even think about touching a kerb here, traction is awful. Numerous times I attempted a different line to pass cars, so for example, go in deep then get on throttle to pull the car out and get passed - doesn't work, nose pushes wide, you lose traction - next lap you use the AI line, yet they amange to go deep with no issue... eugh.

On the approach to the last corner the car is very snappy, found it up on the kerb/grass more than once, had to reduce controller sensitivity.

Having got bored of being taken out by AI I dropped to easy difficulty - in the lead on lap three, which then made for a boring 12 laps just circling to get to the end. Slip stream makes all the difference

I presume its a number of things adding up here, but I won't be rushing back to the car and its probably the worst weekly race I've done.

 

[Force-Feedback]

Sees all the posts above with people winning the F1 race by 0.5 seconds or less...

I think I had a bigger gap, Racing softs, minimum aero, increase top speed by 20/30. (I did have racing gearbox from the tuning shop along side racing exhaust, no real difference but just in case).

A cheeky wallride on turn 2 and flat out for the last corner and it should be ok.

I'm sure others ran the race differently but at least this worked for me.

 

[JDMKING13]

The F1 race is difficult..

No chance on the mediums as you lose too much time around the esses about half way through the lap.

Tried softs plus a new gearbox tuned to 360kph and 2 notches of traction control but could only manage 7th.

I was placed nicely in 4th at one point and just went a bit too aggressive on tyre management and lost the slipstream from the front pack. Then because my tyres were gone I lost a few positions by the end.

Definitely going to be a fine balance between pushing to get to the front pack but also leaving enough tyre to have an enough to fight at the end.

Beat it with medium tires … Caught P1 lap 11 and took it home completely stock.