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Author Topic: Pit Stops  (Read 65 times)

Offline Stevo

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Pit Stops
« on: May 23, 2017, 04:17:04 pm »
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 **** 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

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Offline Chad Brown

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Re: Pit Stops
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2017, 04:31:12 pm »
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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