45 miles on one tank?? Really?? Even tanking it round a track, is that realistic?
PS: It sounds like crap!
I’m not an expert, but that should like about 3 to 4 miles per gallon. I think, even for a high displacement car from that age and racing around a track that seems low to me. I would expect (again no expert), that car in that kind of situation to be getting more like 8 miles to the gallon. That’s a rough estimate/guess on my part having owned a 1968 Firebird for a while.
There’s a great Top Gear UK video on YouTube with Jeremy Clarkson driving the GT 500 across France and complaining about the ‘thimble’ Ford used for the gas tank. I think it’s 11 or 12 gallons and at full throttle you’d never get 45 minutes. The Veyron in real life runs out of fuel in 15 minutes at full throttle, and that’s 18 to 20 gallons.
Well simply turn off fuel consumption…there no penalty for anything anymore
No way! I’m not complaining about having to stop, I love it as part of the race, just wasn’t expecting to pit so soon.
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It’s only 29 miles on Forza 6! Jeez…
IRL the car has a 16 gallon tank, so 45 miles gets you 2.8mpg. Top Gear did the 1 gallon fuel crisis race, and I think super cars were getting somewhere around 4 or 5 mpg racing around the top gear test track. Nascar get between 2mpg and 5mpg at race speeds. So while the in game result is a little on the low side it is not completely unreasonable.
For another data point in real life a 1994 Miata on a race track should get between 8mpg and 10mpg, with a 12.7 gallon tank that gets you about 115 miles.
Thing to keep in mind is unless T10 has reworked the fuel system since FM3, all of the cars have the exact same size fuel tank and get the same MPG. Back in FM3 I ran a SRT10 Viper, the 90’s Civic SI, and a Bugatti Veyron around the old Test Track (big oval) and the Viper and Civic ran out of fuel at the exact same spot of the track on the exact same lap. The Bugatti ran out of fuel about half a lap later but that was because I had to lift off the throttle a little for each turn where for the Viper and Civic I could stay full throttle the whole time. So driving with part throttle and coasting into corners will extend your fuel mileage.