Alin Costrasuc medal 5000 12 years 342 days ago
OK, I noticed that several times, but this time it hit me hard. On my last race, at Kyalami, one of my drivers had 4.6 liters left in the tank with one to go and dived into the pits. At full push, car uses 3.9 liters per fuel. I had a safe 3rd at the time with possible 2nd and because of this I finished 7th. OK, you can say I can put an extra liter on a safe note, but I thought 0.7 - 0.8 was enough.
Andrew Wiseman medal 5000 12 years 342 days ago
Yeah that is a fairly paranoid pit stop. I\'ll improve the driver\'s intelligence here too.
Marco Schnieders medal 5000 12 years 325 days ago
until now it seems you didn\'t change anything in that, huh?
It happens again and again and again and again to many drivers...
When my driver will have 0,2 litres of fuel left when he crosses the S/F line and I tell him \"it will work\" THEN IN FACT HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO DECIDE TO DO ANOTHER UNPLANNED PITSTOP IN THE LAST LAP !
I just want him to do what i tell him, like in every serious racing team!
FIX IT
I will stop playing this game actively (2D) until it gets fixed...
Alin Costrasuc medal 5000 12 years 325 days ago (edited 12 years 325 days ago)
Not to defend the game developers, but this time I think it was our own fault, Marco and Jamie. All of us pitted in the penultimate lap, but all admitted we were running terminal on fuel. This isn\'t a precise mathematical science, and mind you, we were pushing more on the last stint and the track had more grip. As times were getting lower and lower, fuel consumption increased. We were careless and we paid the price. I was lucky to retain positions but next time I will use an extra liter per stint. Common, how much harm can do ?
Later: Hmmmmm.... I checked. If not pitted, my driver would have had 0.5 liters to spare. A bit too much to pit though...
Jesus Brea medal 5000 12 years 325 days ago
Hi last race i noticed this problem that you guys are talking about,my strategy was 2 pits and i did each pit with 7l left in my car so i entered in pits one or two laps before that i was expecting,this problem caused that i had to do a extra pit and i lost very important points ....just i´m reporting this problem because maybe someone can check it and fix the problem because if not will be a bit scary make a strategy thinking that this problem can occur again
Mihai Bogdan medal 5000 12 years 325 days ago
Okay guys next race when you are at the penultimate lap pay atention at the pit strategy box. You will se an green button with the word PITTING you just have to click on it to cancel the pitting action the driver will race normaly. and finish with what fuel you have.
Jamie Franklin medal 5000 12 years 325 days ago
We do know Mihai, but in the midst of fighting hard for position, it\'s hard to look at the technical screen, especially when assuming that you have enough fuel to finish the race anyway. I think I would have finished with 0.3L in both of my cars each. Meaning that I would have secured a 3rd and 4th, and considering I\'m in the Elite league, and every point desperate counts, finishing I think 4th and 7th it was in the end, is a bitter pill to swallow.
ESPECIALLY with every fuel bug that has happened to me in the course of the last 3 races.