I’m currently doing the V12 Power series, in the 2016 Aventador at Road America. (Though I’ve noticed this behavior several times previously with other car/track/series combos as well).
AI difficulty of 6, I conclude practice in P1 with a fastest lap of 2:13.066, with P2 some 0.2 or 0.3s behind. Immediately following practice and just prior to the race, I check the Driver List, and it suddenly shows there are no fewer than 3 cars that have somehow magically finished in front of me:
- a Ferrari 812 with a time of 2:11.6
- a McLaren F1 with a time of 2:12.6, and
- a Ferrari F12 with a time of 2:12.9
I guess I could buy this as cars finishing flying laps once the checkered flag has fallen, but if that’s the case, then let players finish their flying laps as well, especially since I was about 0.6 up on my best time when the timer ended and I got yoinked back to the pits.
Whatever place we finish practice in, should be the same place shown on the Driver List pre-race. Otherwise, what’s the point?
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Practice is not the same as qualifying. However, I think if you do enough practice laps it will move you to a qualifying run. But still, I recommend you leave practise at some point – while there is still time – and participate in qualifying laps.
Huh? I was talking about Builder’s Cup in career mode, where there is no qualifying. You finish your practice laps, and for the race, cars generally are placed on the grid using the order of their best laps from practice.
Only, the times that the AI are shown to have set prior to the beginning of the race are often quite a bit faster than the times shown at the end of practice, which really shouldn’t be.
Many not know/aware of this but career mode practice has dynamic track grip. During the last 5 minutes of practice you will see your times are getting better and better. Because thats when you get the best laptimes.
Meanwhile race even has fixed grip. One of the reason why your practice lap times are slower than race times is because of Dynamic track rubber.
Sure, but that’s not what I’m referring to here. I’m talking about finishing the practice session (running until the time expires)… and making note of the AI’s lap times.
Then, once the race is set to begin, the times that the AI are shown to have posted (when looking at the driver list pre-race)… THOSE times are significantly quicker, which makes no sense.