Season 5 discussion

i jumped on and did a full length, single player race at Bugatti last night, and had no penalties for coming out of the pits at the chicane either. im curious if anyone else has had the issue, as someone mentioned it earlier in the week

Do you reenter the track immediately after the chicane over the blue tarmac section or further down the road toward the link?

i followed the fence line, then sharp left into the middle of the chicane, cant remember what colour the tarmac was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_la_Sarthe#/media/File:Bugatti_Circuit.svg

where the gray pitline comes onto track,

Received a cut penalty doing that last night during a testing sesh...

hmm, i think we may have to use the exit straight after pitlane then, if some people are getting cuts, then we cant do it. for reference, the AI pull out of the pits following the black line on the track map, not the gray line.

will have to see what @stucar17 says

I keep getting penalties regardless of what I try and personally the MotoGP pit exit doesn't feel any safer than the proper exit. Something about being perpendicular to the track and coming across over the racing line to rejoin at the right handed part of the chicane at the biggest braking point on the circuit doesn't sit right with me. If an LMP1 can see a GTE car coming out of the car pitlane at night without issue at the Le Mans 24 hour I don't know why we can't in GT3 cars in what will be during the day when pitstops take place.

Using the direct exit lane rather than the exit lane that runs along the wall is a better option and shouldn't cause any dramas as long as people show a little common sense.

Either way, I'll be using the proper le-mans pit lane exit. If that results in a 30s penalty then so be it, but I'd rather have that then ruin someones race as I already found out how tricky it was to rejoin from the motorcycle pit lane when @SPL Racing was coming at me at 240kmh and I didn't know whether to floor it or wait, if I had of floored it we would have hit each other and probably both ended up in the tires.
Also what Beau said about being perpendicular to the track on exit was what i was trying to say on Sunday @stucar17

I'm assuming the 'motorcycle pit lane' is the exit that runs along wall and enters the track at 90 degrees to the braking zone?

just confirming, the Lemans one is the one that comes out at the start of Dunlop Curve on the little track map i posted? sorry, im a little confused

The proper Le-Mans pit exit is the one where you go where your meant to . (and where the AI go)

4 out 5 times using the pit wall exit I got a penalty. The last one even gave a penalty on the straight before I had actually turned back into the track.
I'll be using pit straight exit.

@Ad2mny @Nathancarhead @garyw61 I was speaking with @stucar17 and he was flat out with work but asked me to post this (he will update regs tonight) sundays race will be x15 time progression. use the correct pit exit not motor bike one ( people keep getting penalties using the bike one running along fence line) pit stop is compulsory but tires are optional for the first round if you think you can make the distance on one set go for it. You will have to make the decision before the race as you can't change it during the race so a tune practice session may be set up before race starts. This will be reviewed after first round.
Ant

if in doubt... flat out

Didn't work well for Jaques Villenueve at Spa in '99 though, did it?