Dean Michael medal 5000 4 years 228 days ago
Pit stops are ruining this game. It’s a great game. You can be having a great race. Go in a split second behind another racer then come out seconds behind completely ruining the race. What is the point? Why can’t a simple and fair pits be implemented on here?
james porritt medal 5000 4 years 228 days ago
That is just how much experience you have you see you need to stragise your pits as a good pit will get you the win and a bad pit the loss
Nick Nichols medal 5000 4 years 228 days ago
Yes Dean, but there are times when you can pit right behind someone and come out ahead so there are different factors playing into pit stop times where we know that sometimes less than a second can make a huge difference.
Dean Michael medal 5000 4 years 228 days ago
None of it makes sense to me how it all works. How some races I can gain from the pit stop and others I can lose so much. I haven’t worked out any pattern to it to understand what I can do to make it better
Chris Py medal 5000 4 years 227 days ago
I thought there was a random factor in play? Just as in real life pit stops, two stops are never as fast. I also read something about "pitrapes" Where a lower car number gets priority (or it could be a higher number that gets prio, not sure) if two cars pit too close together.
That being said, I'm generally not a huge fan of randomness. But in this case I think I approve of it. It would feel a bit strange if everyone had the exact same pit stop time, always. Then we can also remove the randomness on tyre wear, fuel consumption and lap times in practice and also remove the random factor to qualifying times. That would be a tad boring I think :S
Kevin Bissell medal 5001 Super Mod 4 years 227 days ago
As I've said a few times before in other threads, personally I would like to see pit stop times proportional to the quantity of fuel taken on board. So you can run a very light stint and gain a speed advantage but the downside is your pit stop would be longer.
A bit off topic but... Even better would be to combine the above with qualifying on first stint fuel load and we have some real strategy decisions to think about.
Just my thoughts but I doubt it will happen.
Vance Sim medal 5000 4 years 227 days ago
Cars can get held up in the pits by other cars either braking in front of them to go to their pit stalls, or just coming out of their stalls, both cases making the race simulation cause the trailing car to brake. That's the most I can observe affecting pit times other than the pit crew's own swiftness with pit stops and other not-easily observable things.
Spectating a race earlier in the week I saw a car pit from the front, only to come out behind a few other racers that all still had to go to their stalls, each slowing that car down when they pulled in to their boxes. The car was held up even further when other cars that pit after it came out in front, slowing the car down again as it had to brake for those coming out of their stalls. That car ended up coming out numerous positions behind their original position.
This is just the latest I can remember, seen lots of this over the year. I'm sure other managers have their own stories about pit nightmares too.
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