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2 hours and 40 minutes leaves enough time for a real life pit stop.
Here is the entry list of the real 24 hours on the Bohemeth this weekend , wouls be awesome if we must use 1 of these cars !!
ALFREDOS NL,
I appreciate your input. I will accept the event will be on the Nordschleife+GP. I don’t follow this type of racing so I’ll believe what you say.
Given the numbers you mentioned, you would do about 290 miles. I am not sure you did this with or without drivatars. I find that the drivatars are easier to pass than inexperienced real drivers. The drivatars are predictable. There are going to be the inexperienced drivers out there during the event.
You are clearly an experienced driver with a well tuned car for the event. There are drivers with less experience that don’t know how to tune a car and don’t know how to pick a good tuning set up for the course. I have downloaded tuning set ups designed for a course that I thought were horrible even though they had 5 star ratings.
Drivers with some experience should expect to earn the badge for putting in the time. I’d hate to go 249 miles and not get the badge. I would probably enter the event again. I can see this happening a lot if the requirements are a little too strict. This would also lead to some ill will toward Turn 10.
I would feel better if the requirement for this race was 225 miles. You would complete that in about 2 hours. I did the 250 miles at Le Mans in just under two hours. That seems like a reasonable time for experienced drivers to meet the distance requirement.
Thanks JimB3 for the kind words .
Its hard these days to find the good tunes on the ShareFront , I tryed many tunes and if I like it then I follow that person . So his/her tunes show upfront the next time .
If I know which car to pick and when I have tuned it , I will sent you PM , or just post my upgrades and settings in this thread !!
Greets Alf
ALFREDOS NL,
Thank you.
I was practicing again last night. I think I found a GT car I like, the #92 Rahal Letterman Racing BMW. I haven’t raced the GT cars a lot. I started tuning it and found I can tune it to my style of driving somewhat easily. I still need to do some work on it. I know I need to work on the gearing.
I’m working on consistent laps and not fast laps. Hopefully speed will come with consistency. I’m beginning to drive the track from memory. I just seem to know what turn is coming.
The event will require 15 and half laps on Nordschleife+GP. If someone averages 10 minutes laps, he will drive 16 laps or 257 miles in 2 hours and 40 minutes. If someone uses a stock GT car without tuning this could be tough. I’m afraid some less experienced drivers may do this. If someone can do 9:30 laps, he will do almost 17 laps or 272 miles in the time allotted. Doing 9 minute laps would increase this to 17 and 3/4 laps and 284 miles.
As I tune my car, I’m turning 9:30 laps and hope to get it down to around 9 minutes through tuning and practice. I’m hoping to do 270 and 280 miles. This is above the minimum for the challenge but nowhere near as much as I beat the requirements on the Indy and Le Mans tracks. I also hope that damage is off. If an accident happens in the first couple of corners, it is a long way back to the pits. I think I’d drive backwards to get to them.
This does not look like it is going to be as easy as the other endurance hoppers.
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I just did a 9:10 standing start with the BMW, though I was really slow and with my poor eyes and the rescanned and more accurate track I just don’t have the confidence I use to to take some of the corners as fast any more. I feel like this track will be a real change but should be a lot of fun. My plan is to just stay on the track, keep a consistent lap time, move over for faster traffic and try to minimize the amount of passing I need to do on the Nordschleife
But it’s likely to go by a lot faster as you won’t need to endure the monotony of driving the same piece of road too many times. I really look forward to this challenge, just like I did with the Le Mans endurance race.
Maybe I need to try that Rahal Letterman BMW. Life is bad for me in the Viper: I’ve tried 3 different tunes and an hour tinkering my own, still no better than 12 minutes a lap.
I might have to use autobrake for this one. Hate to do it, I know it’s backsliding on my learning curve. But it’ll probably be more polite to the real racers out there, for me to do better at staying on the track.
I ran a easy 8:50’s in the Viper and the Aston GT cars I don’t have the tunes up quite yet, only did one lap in each(backed up at the start line to sim a 2nd lap time). But I will be messing with the tunes a little later today to get down to the 8:40’s. Oh and I’m running auto trans, trac, and ABS.
Also you may find yourself brake checking people using the auto brake in the straights or slight curves that you don’t have to slow down for but show as red on the braking line.
Trust me it wont, in fact its more tha likely going to make it worse, Autobrake slows the car an insane amount of time before it needs to be, plus on this track all the kinks that are pretty much flat, maybe a tiny lift it will be braking you, someone behind you will not be expecting that …
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looks like i will be missing out on this event too 
as not sure if im going wanna sit down and race for 2.4hrs virtually after driving home for 7hours on sunday after Rock Fest in Montebello Quebec!!
Appreciate the tips from you guys. Gonna run some practice laps here very shortly. I ran 343 miles at Le Mans this past weekend and hardly ever saw another car and was never passed on the track. (This was in a Class P car though.) Is it not likely that something similar could happen at the Ring where half the field drops out after the first few laps?
NM … double post.
bob qoq,
Don’t turn autobraking on. It hurts your times a lot. It sounds like your having trouble learning the course. In my opinion this course is the hardest to learn. I knew the course from previous Forza editions but it has changed a little. It took me some time to learn it again. Here are a couple of things I did to relearn the course.
Turn on the driving line and do 2 or 3 laps and then turn it to brake only. You don’t want to become dependent upon it.
Practice in the transit van on Nordschleife. I did 10 laps in it. This took almost 2 hours. The first few laps were horrible. I then started learning the corners and where to slow down.
Tune your car on the Grand Prix course first. Use free play. Select 1 drivatar as competition and 2 laps. Select a level for the drivatar so that your chasing him the entire race. Watch his line. Follow him. After the race, go back to tuning the car. Figure out what your car isn’t doing right for the way you drive. Adjust it. Race again. Repeat this until you can consistently beat an experienced drivatar. The tuning should be good but not perfect for the entire Nordschleife+GP course.
Start practicing on the Nordschliefe+GP course. You should find you will get under 10 minutes after a couple of laps.
I use the same settings as DAT trashman, auto trans, traction control and ABS. You may consider using stability management. I wouldn’t go to the manual transmission. I don’t think my thumb could handle 2 hours and 40 minutes of shifting at the Nurburgring.
I like the Rahal Letterman Racing BMW. The default tuning was reasonable for how I drive. I then started tweaking things to make it better. The Viper’s default tuning wasn’t good at all for how I drive. I’m sure I could tune it to match my driving style but I’d rather start with something close.
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Im so excited about this hopper!! its not gonna be about being fast but about being consistent and staying on the track… ive done thousands of laps on the ring prolly in my forza career, so im pretty excited lol
hmm ok thanks for the tip. guess I’ll stick with the current plan
JimB3 thanks for the detailed advice. Working on it now, starting on GP and then out to GP+Nordschliefe. Still trouble in R class and got frustrated, dropped to D, then C, then B now up to A. Should be back up to R by Thursday, with more familiarity and more practice at staying on the pavement 
Not sure why I’ve got fewer “happy tunes” in R than any other class, but your comments about BMW vs Viper lead me to think a closer starting point will help.
maybe we should follow the unwritten rule and pull to the right to let faster drivers through as i can see the tightness of this track causing issues
it would have been nice for t10 to let us know what to use as we could do some testing and tuning in advance
Test and practice in GT cars ie R class GT cars.
Ive had a quick scan, and cant find an answer so hopefully someone here can help me:
on the LeMans 2.4 challenge, some in the lobby were in GT cars, others in LMP. How is this determined?
i ask because i would hazard a guess that it will be the same car choices this time round, and i love driving the R18. Last time, the only way i managed to select that car, was to join in a race through a friends GT. When i searched, it would only ever let me choose GT class.