If I buy a 2 hour boost but the race is longer then that do I still get the boost
If you buy a 2 hour boost it lasts for 2 hours. Simples!
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So how does it behave if you’re in a 2.4 hours endurance race?
Do you get double XP for the laps you did within the 2 hours?
Does it apply for the whole race or not at all because it took too long?
Race must be completed within the 2 hours.
Although I cannot prove it, I’d have to say this is the appropriate answer. The boost is applied at the post-race winnings screen and if the countdown for the boost has expired, I imagine it is not pro rated for something like a 2.4 hour race.
2.4hr is not the time to use Boost anyway: you want to maximize your XP with it. Nord+GP in a fast car is 9-11 minutes a lap for most of us and pays 10,000 XP. 2.4 hr is 18-21 laps and pays just 60,000XP. With a 2-hr boost you could do multiplayer with friends, or free-play, and hit 100,000 to 130,000 XP plus the boost.
Test it and see. Run a 50 lap Indy with an hour boost. Immediately after you finish re-run it again with the boost still active and compare your rewards at the end.
why would you waste money like that? 2.4 hours of lemans took 2 hours 40 mineutes. its was over 300 miles. there is a 60k xp cap that doubled would put you at 120k. it was 10k xp a lap so you hit the cap in 6 laps, about 88 miles. the rest was wasted, you raced over teice as long not getting any xp. you could get the same xp buy doing two 6lap races less than 180 miles without a xp boost, then race another 6 laps and get 3X experience for less racing. the 60k limit means on the ring+gp means 6 laps pays as much as 600 laps would. if you are going for xp boost on the ring+gp always end the race at 6 laps. for any race stop racing when you hit 60k, you wont get any farther xp points. then start a new race.
even the indy oval which is only 2.5 miles pays 1000 xp per lap. do a 1 lap race and see what the xp per lap is, then divide 60,000 by what ever the single lap number is and that will tell you how many laps max you can go before wasting your effort. 2 hour endurance races are never an efficient means to gain xp due to the cap. do multiple shorter races. in freeplay you could set up a 50 lap race on the ring+gp, it would take you 7 minuets per lap so 350 minuets or about 6 hours. it would give you the same xp as a 6 lap race that would take you 42 minuets. you could fit in eight 6 laps races in less time and get 8 times the xp, 480,000 xp vs only 60k for the 50 lap race. and if an emregency came up and you could only do 49 of the 50 laps you wouldn’t even get a single xp point for the 50 lap race while all eight 6 lap races would already be over. you could easily waste over 5 hours of racing. doing 6 laps at a time would lock in the xp after each race. can you imagine if you worked 5.5 hours toward completing 50 laps and the power goes out for a minuet? almost as mad as finishing the 50 laps and seeing the 60k pay out when you were expecting half a million.
I use double XP in GT or any class racing lobby. Those seem like they give you the most bang for the buck in multiplayer hoppers. I know some will disagree, but that’s how I do it.