>I really have to lash out at ICR. I was driving a 33 lap (40% of the
> distance) race at Laguna Seca, and it seems that none of the AI cars
>ever bothered to make a pit stop during the race to refuel. My turbocharger
>was set at 9 throughout the race and I had to stop at the end of the 25th
>lap to get 13 gallons (so I used ~53 gallons to complete the race)
>The AI car immediately behind me (it never was more than 10s behind me)
>took advantage of my bungled pitstop and won the race at an average of
>>~111 mph. Is this really possible? Or could I have driven more
>conservatively, maintain the same average speed and win the race?
They do stop, but they do it much later than most of us humans. The AI
cars run at 1.8 mph, we usually don't. In IICC we regularly pit much
more often than the AI does - but we just put the boost at 9 and leave
it there, and the majority of the drivers leave the AI totally in the dust.
I'm running dead middle of the pack in the *LITES* crowd and I've beaten
the AI at all but one track, often by a huge margin. (I beat the 2nd place
car at Michigan by very nearly 4 laps in a 35% race!) IICC rules crank
up the AI speeds, too. Lites run at 98% of the jacked up speed. I averaged
112+mph and finished 5th at Laguna Seca.
The one track I didn't beat the AI was Laguna Seca,
and I had three or four spins and other mistakes to cause that. As I
recall, in both there and Toronto our 35% races the AI never pitted, but
basically everyone lapped so fast that we pulled away from pole in the
first lap or two and were so far ahead by the time we needed fuel that
we stayed in the lead.
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Brian Wong Product Marketing Engineering
