Losing Time in Pits

[PhilP01]

New to ACC and having a blast in the career mode. However, I'm scratching my head at the mandatory pit window. After reviewing lap times, it seems the AI are consistently 5-6 seconds faster in the pits than I am, which means I'm losing places. I'm careful to only swap driver and tires. I'll be leading the race by 5 or 6 seconds, only to come out of the pits in 5th or 6th. Am I missing something?

[Wolke]

hit the mark (why are there two is far beyond my understandng ;) ) and turn off engine by hand may save some seconds

[(ง︡'-'︠)ง Hor Hay J]

The AI magicly snap into place.

[Maddin Quick]

has also struck me to my annoyance - it would be easy to implement randomly 1-4 extra seconds for the AI ​​instead of the super snap style every time.

[SoulMaTriX]

Originally posted by Wolke:

hit the mark (why are there two is far beyond my understandng ;) ) and turn off engine by hand may save some seconds

He is right. You will want to shut off the engine yourself. I don't have this mapped myself and end up falling from 1st to 5th or worse a lot of the time. There is a video on youtube that talks about this. I tried this one time, but then couldn't get the car started! Takes practice.

[PhilP01]

ok thanks for the help - I'll give that a try!

[goblueteam]

the pit stops are one of the worst things in ACC if you dont pull in absolutely perfect they will move your car taking a few seconds at least.

i change to the the hood cam to pull into the pit box now it seems to be more consistent and turn the engine off and on manual not automatic and if you really want to save a couple more tenths manually use the pit limiter too --but still even if you use the chase cam and your perfectly in the orange pit box area it will move you they really need to make this area bigger

ive seen some bigger races with nice prizes on the line that people have lost because they were 1 mm off in the pits and lost 3-5 seconds because of it

[goblueteam]

also there is a ignition and a starter to turn the car off use ignition but you have to turn the ignition back on for the starter to work i just use the menu(the one with your brake bias and lights and everything ignition/starter is at the bottom) personally even though i have the buttons bound

[Ernie]

Originally posted by goblueteam:

the pit stops are one of the worst things in ACC if you dont pull in absolutely perfect they will move your car taking a few seconds at least.

I disagree. Precision on pitstops is also important in real races, which drivers have to master. If you don't stopp at optimal position, your pitcrew have to move and this costs time as well. Maybe it's not that important in GT racing, but look at F1 races.

I think it's very well done in ACC, even if it is a little bit picky.

[lich0]

Originally posted by Ernie:

I disagree. Precision on pitstops is also important in real races, which drivers have to master. If you don't stopp at optimal position, your pitcrew have to move and this costs time as well. Maybe it's not that important in GT racing, but look at F1 races.

I think it's very well done in ACC, even if it is a little bit picky.

Have you seen actual pit stops in real GT3 races? These aren’t 2s pit sptops people know from F1 and drivers are nowhere near as perfect as you have to be in ACC. Mechanics usually easily adjust to where the car stops. Kunos definitely went overboard in this aspect.

[Maddin Quick]

Originally posted by lich0:

Originally posted by Ernie:

I disagree. Precision on pitstops is also important in real races, which drivers have to master. If you don't stopp at optimal position, your pitcrew have to move and this costs time as well. Maybe it's not that important in GT racing, but look at F1 races.

I think it's very well done in ACC, even if it is a little bit picky.

Have you seen actual pit stops in real GT3 races? These aren’t 2s pit sptops people know from F1 and drivers are nowhere near as perfect as you have to be in ACC. Mechanics usually easily adjust to where the car stops. Kunos definitely went overboard in this aspect.

THIS is what I´m also thinking! And some random good and not so good pit stops from the AI would also be interesting and would bring some dynamism and tension into this matter ....

[Wolke]

Originally posted by goblueteam:

also there is a ignition and a starter to turn the car off use ignition but you have to turn the ignition back on for the starter to work i just use the menu(the one with your brake bias and lights and everything ignition/starter is at the bottom) personally even though i have the buttons bound

you can map both on one button

[JPL083]

Turn engine off close to the pit spot, and just roll to the box (easier to concentrate for the braking) and try to get so the board in front is middle of the bonnet and you can see, if i now remember right.. four arrows. Depends from the car also this, but overall its that. If you go off a bit where you should be like this, the pit crew will move and not the car up down up etc, and saves a lot of time. But if you go too far of, they will move the car. But the thing is really that you have to do manual engine off/on. And you can keep your spot, even overtake AI's. I have done this now manually already a long time and only couple times lost places, because me myself messed up the stopping to the pit box. Earlier, always lose time in the pits with automatic things.

[AzzurF]

The area where you must stop is too small. On online races, everyone may lose that extra 1 to 6 seconds at the pits.
But against AI, you are always the only one who loses time, and always have to gain it back.

If the area was bigger, you'd know when you've messed up.

Now it's like:
"I think I hit the right spot ... NOOOOOO!!!! I missed it by a half of an inch!
Now my crew thinks I'm a fool, and have to lift the car, move it an inch, then put it down, and then lift the car again to change the tires!".

This can't be "realistic".