Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27991067-20160531111319/@comment-26829117-20160531161422

I assume that the lead car is crossing the start finish line at the beginning of the rolling start. I'm about a third of a lap back so that's about 4.5km (about what Mr_Procrastinator suggested). So you need to close on the lead car by at least 0.5km per lap to catch him before the end. If you slow the bots down then you can easily catch the leader by more than 2km per lap and be in front before the start of the third lap. I do this so that I can race with all three cars and even unserviced ones if required.

In a standing start, he's about 100m ahead of you and acceleration / cornering is more important than speed. The bots tend to accelerate and corner slower than you and so you can usully pass them in the first few corners.

If I had my time again, RR3xyz, I probably wouldn't bother upgrading the 2015 LMP's so early as the reward isn't that much more than the 2014 cars. I'd stick with the easier race and save the gold until they were the only ones left but oddly, I won the 2015 cars before upgrading any of the 2014 and assumed they would be a better bet.