I’m trying to simply record and store the fastest lap time on each track for each individual car. Is there a way to do this?
I tried on Rivals but it seems to only store the best time for each class on each track, and once I beat another car’s time, it will only show me my best time in my fastest car.
For example, on Suzuka I set a time in a stock AMG GT, but then I beat that time in a Jesko and now I can’t find the recorded time for my AMG at all. Nor can I find its ghost to race.
So two questions:
1: In rivals and/OR free play, can the game store the best lap times for each car?
2: Can I choose the ghost of a specific car I set a lap for, to race against another car? For example, can I find a lap time from a slower AMG GT to set as a rival for me to chase if I want to use a Jesko? Or am I stuck only racing my own Jesko since it set the fastest lap time?
Thanks. For #2 I figure that means while I can select from the list on the leaderboard, I can’t actually select any car I’ve raced on a specific track, I’m stuck only selecting the fastest time/car I’ve raced?
I wish the game recorded fastest times set with each specific car. So I could essentially choose which cars of mine I want to race against other cars of mine.
1: Can I clear/delete my own personal leaderboard time? That would allow the ability for me to race specific cars of mine against each other through my own lap times.
2: Can you race in Rivals without having a visible ghost to race against?
No you cant clear LB times. It will only keep your best time for the track/class combo.
In the Gameplay and hud settings you can turn rivals ghosts off.
I don’t think that the game stores fastest lap times for each car, but you could use the Data Out feature to get and store this information yourself.
But you would need a program that does this and I don’t know if any of the existing ones have this feature.
We used to have this feature in older Forza titles, certainly FM2 had it. If you ever hear people say they miss local leaderboards, this is what they mean.
Was a grest way of testing different cars in a given class. Only way to track it now is via Excel
Yeah, it’s a real shame this isn’t available in this game. Even if it was just in the career races, it would add an extra layer to have your own lap record for each race and be able to see the times you’d done in various cars. I have an Excel sheet but it feels like something that could be built into the game, rather than requiring manual data storage by the player.
Turn 10 somehow don’t think metrics are important in motorsport lol.
I want my fastest laps in each GT car available. Nope.
How about podium records in multiplayer? Nope.
Same as you with Rivals - nope.
Hours or distance driven in any car? Nope.
There is nothing to help us race ourselves. The BIGGEST part of racing.
Man that sucks. This game is in desperate need of more individual car stats like that. I really figured a next gen console game would have like a list under each of my cars documenting my fastest lap time on each track, allowing me to race against any car’s ghost, etc. It’s lame to only have the fastest car of each class recorded.
Does any game do that? Shame that FM itself used to.
It might be possible using simhub and some extra tools for telemetry gathering/storing for you to create an overlay or tweak an existing overlay that does exactly that.
I started fiddling with the telemetry but most of the data is missing / null so it’s pretty useless - however I reckon what you are asking for could be cobbled together with a lot of effort.
+1 - RIP FM2 and local leaderboards. I find it shocking that it’s been 16 years since we last had this feature in a Motorsport title. Ever since “Rivals” became a thing, T10 seems to think that’s all anyone should care about, and local boards are redundant and irrelevant. Like you said, this was a great way to test and tune various cars for a given class, and I used to spend hours seeing if I could make a corvette build that would beat my GT-R, etc. [sigh] memories…
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the PC version of Assetto Corsa, when used in conjunction with Content Manager. I’ve spent countless hours logging lap times at the Nordschleife, pitting similar cars’ times against each other. Great fun.
Good to see some older players have pointed out this use to be a feature in FM2, and never seen again. That game even had career LB and a thing call ed Exibition LB where you had to put together 3 best laps in a row. It also had many more ways to sort your garage, by power, weight, handling etc. It’s mind boggling how lacking the game has become in QOL features that make the game enjoyable for dedicated players.
This is seriously such a simple feature. And is what true Motorsport is about. Testing various cars and documenting stats for them.
But with the reliance on online comp all games care about is “what’s your best meta time and see how that stacks up against someone else’s.” That’s where it stops being about the CARS and starts being about the “game” aspect.
On another note at least I discovered that you can choose specific cars to race against in free play racing. I used to think it was only that you can choose what class of car to race against. So either I didn’t see the option for choosing an actual car or it’s a new feature this update?
So if I want to race against a LaFerrari, 919, WRX, I can specifically choose those cars. That’s extremely cool.
T10 could easily add this feature that people have been asking for but they won’t. They say they listen to the fans but the reality is that they don’t. Surely they can hear the complaints about how broken the game is yet when was the last time we heard from Dan or Chris? Pre-launch is when. They don’t care.