Okay, I’ve just forced myself to complete one of those endurance races (with vintage Le Mans sportscars at Nordschleife on difficulty level 5)… and what an awful, terrible experience that was.
Tire wear clearly doesn’t apply to AI. When I was struggling with steering and grip at lap 3, they were just as agile in corners as before, sitting on my tail all the time with only exception being straights. Then we all made a pit stop (it was very funny to watch my pit crew changing wheels in my stock Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe '65 in just 2.5 seconds), but with fresh set of tires I wasn’t any faster than AI. Rubberbanding clearly was at play when top 5 cars improved their lap times by 10+ seconds all of a sudden and on the last lap stopped falling behind even on straights.
And I’m supposed to repeat that 45-minute farse seven more times just to get some “exclusive” car? You can keep it, T10, my FOMO isn’t strong enough.
At this point I wish Forza Motorsport stopped pretending it’s a proper sim racing title when it clearly isn’t. How much better this game would be if T10 simply opted for remaking the career mode from FM4, even with fraction of the content at launch and the rest being added with updates…