Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27109924-20161129030305/@comment-27897271-20170209200156

Practice, practice, and more practice. Without assists. The FXXK should make it easy.

I've been trying to work out what I'm doing to succeed here, and I think the answer is 42.

I've only got the Audi to do this race with at the moment, so adjust your judgement of what I'm saying accordingly.

A very clean run will have passing the 42nd bot at the end of lap 10, preferably before the bus stop. As you join the start/finish straight you should see 4 bots ahead. I think this is the equivalent of 'catching the line' in the P1GTR race as Indy. Look at the top of the hill and count backwards. Cut both the corners from the start, don't time manage, and perfect your line over the hill.

In the Audi you need 4 bots per lap to get the timer climbing. Sometimes only 2 or 3 are available. That pattern seems to vary every ten miles, 5 miles with 4 or more, 5 miles with three. On one run I seemed to have only three for 50 miles. It wasn't easy.

Don't make a mistake. No hitting scenery, spinning off, being spun off, rear-ending the bot in front. In the Audi, you can get away with a mistake only if the pattern ahead of you is in a 'fat' zone, as you will need all the help you can get. In the Ferrari you can get away with all sorts of disasters.

Take the odd risk, and this is where practice matters. You can overtake turning right up the hill, but you need to hold your line to the left of the track before the corner at the top. You can get a very clean pass going downhill, but stay on the racing line to avoid the bot smacking you. You can pass a bot going into the bus stop, but that is risky. Risky but necessary sometimes. You don't want to spend any time off track having been hit.

Another point that may be relevent is to use 'chase' mode for the camera. I don't think the other options give you the peripheral vision you need to react to the bots that you have over-taken. The purists will hate that.

My best run in the LMS has been 200 laps, but I've had lots of 100 lappers, and been timed out twice, at 90 miles and 166 miles, so no disgrace.

As an aside, perhaps another option for 'endlessness', I've just stopped at 50 miles at the Dubai hill circuit with 73 seconds on the clock. It pays a little less fame than Leipzig, but it's a bit less stressful, and has only one danger point.