Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27170954-20161109200558/@comment-26388545-20161110160106

RandyMc wrote: I'll have to try that, although my car is a few upgrades short of full. I did see someone else mention that event once, but I never spent the time to look for it. What is your best distance recently?

Before posting a long response I made sure I was on topic. Topic is "Maximizing Endurance Distance" so I am right on point! Some of these tips are exclusive to the Indy Speedway race in the McLaren P1 GTR, but a lot of this will transfer to all other races.

Recently I have trouble getting over 100 km when at the Indy Speedwat Endurance (in P1 GTR). You have to race VERY close to bots later on to pass them. We are talking corner overtakes while going 387-389 km. Any sudden moves and you are into the bot or into the wall!

The handling changes became VERY noticable to me in this race. I had a hard enough time staying off the wall without bots. Racing in a pack of 5 aggresive bots WITH bad handling... not good. I have to rethink how I pass. I suppose inside passes would be better, but harder to achieve full throttle. The bots can't turn down in the corners because such a movement will make you lose grip and slide up the track though. Outside passes work on the corners for the same reason. If the bots suddenly change their line, they will crash. It's the exit of the corners and the straights were they get really nasty!

I used to race flat out from the start, but then you will get some batches of cars around 25 km. Now I wait until the clock hits 40 before I even move. Then I am full on the throttle, only lifting to avoid a crash. This delays the batches until about 65 km. I one made it to 38 km without lifting off the throttle once.

Batches are good, but also bad. They are good because your clock can go from 7 to 90 in 10 seconds. They are bad because you need bots to crash in order to do that! So it is all about anticipating a crash and getting around it without losing much momentum. If you slow down too much, you will not see any more cars. So you have to be very aggressive WHILE being very careful.

You also can't afford any damage. HOWEVER... I have found an insteresting trick. If I hit someone medium to hard while on the gas I almost always get damaged. If I lift off the gas even 1 second before impact, I often do not get any damage. I can get away with some bigger tangle-ups, as long as I am not in the gas at time of impact. It doesn't always work, but I get away with a lot more this way then when I am full throttle! This includes getting fully pitted by a bot and hitting the wall at 370+ km/h.