I did the Le Mans PP700 30 min race in another stock Gr.4 car, this time the Toyota 86 Gr.4.
It was looking good for me as I took the lead after a bout of light rain, but I was left with a dilemma - pit for slicks, get some fuel and stay on FM1, or stay out on wearing IMs and finish the race on FM6?
Turns out I probably wouldn't have won either way... while deciding whether to come in at the end of Lap 6, two AI cars (on slicks) were catching me fast, but I figured they would have to pit, and so I could maybe beat them by staying out. However, there was also two other AI cars already on slicks, who didn't need to pit for fuel and stayed out, and I reckon there would have been no way for me to beat them had I stayed out.
I pitted, and ended up being overtaken by both cars that were chasing me, plus the two who stayed out. I got past one of them to finish a decent 4th, but I had to watch the replay to figure out what happened. Basically, all 4 cars that passed me stayed on slicks throughout the whole race, and these were the only ones that managed to navigate the rain without crashing.
To rub salt into the wound, the AI car that won was another Toyota 86
I'm not sure that my strategy could have been much better however, and I am a bit surprised at how easy it was for these AI cars to stay on slicks during a whole lap of IM weather, not to mention that they only needed one top up of fuel.
That said, it was a good race, and I still got over 300k for coming 4th, which was a decent pay out for a fun race.