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#Post#: 2995--------------------------------------------------
Pit Stops
DIR By: Stevo
Date: May 23, 2017, 11:17 am
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As you all know all my 4 races of this and my first season have
been ruined by my lack of knowledge on what is what when it
comes to making a bad or a successfull stop. and why they were
bad or good, also how the seconds get calculated etc. Ive sorta
been my own engineer on the fly and find it sooo damn
distracting.. I figured at Rouens i would be quicker overall if
a ran 2 half loads of fuel, 14 seconds for refuel and i was 20
seconds slower on full load for half a race... but all that got
complicated on the go lap 11 i think.. i should of just pitted
with chad but i wanted to try to do 2 more laps cause my car
felt good then i was thinkin ohh no gotta tell pit crew i dont
need 3 panels fixing and ive done more laps than i thought i was
gonna do so i could reduce my fuel load and maybe pit timer and
then while i was doing algebra in my head the sticky out bit on
the left side of the home straight jumped out without doing the
Stop Look Listen and stopped me instantly for some
reason = 960 second pit stop.. and i was worrying about a spare
5 litre of fuel overfuel,, but i still finished the algebratic
equation in my head tho while i waited for about 200 seconds
hoping that if i drive out now i hope my pitcrew fixed the right
thing cause when i drove in i was full left lock and good job
pit was on the right cause thats where i was going still, hit my
box at a perfect 45 degree angle too.
So if anyone has any kind of information on it, or maybe they
have a plugin that helps, or do people use touch screens or
keyboards etc.
Now i know pit stops are a part of being quick in a race as i
said above, but all my races? Im a Noob I know but im a fast one
:P
Trying to find things out by googling it is like trying to buy a
Unicorn shit ice cream cone when Chads not about
Im going to make another topic Plugins. So if you got one for
this, please post it there
Thanks in advance
Stevo
#Post#: 2999--------------------------------------------------
Re: Pit Stops
DIR By: Chad Brown
Date: May 23, 2017, 11:31 am
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Trackmap was my go to for figuring out fuels and such. But with
DX11 it is not available. So in the Setup section simply reduce
pit stop to only have 2 stops. Then make sure the second stop
lists 0 fuel. On the first stop put in as much fuel as the car
will take. Go out and do a few laps at speed(4-5) and see how
much fuel you have left. Subtract what fuel you have left from
what you started with and then divide that by how many laps you
did to get a general idea of how much fuel per lap you will use.
Then you need to figure out how many laps you will do in the
race. Add a few just to be sure. Then multiply that number by
the fuel per lap. Put that much fuel in your car at the
beginning.
Simple right?
Fuel mixture will effect the fuel usage per lap. The leaner the
mixture the less fuel you will use. The richer the mixture the
more fuel you will use.
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