Generic Working out what fuel is needed ?

How do you Endurance guys work out what fuel is needed ?

Not sure how the pc set up is but us console guys just have an orange fuel line , no lt marker so I can't work out what fuel to allow per lap .

And setup just shows 5-100 , is that meant to show how many laps , Lts , gallons what ?

Any help please guys .

 

Cant you see how much fuel you have on the dash screen?

 

You can indeed the fuel guage is a great thing!!

Best to put in 10litres and see how many laps that will go when you're practicing before the race...well that's how I do it.
I usually do full and empty test runs in practice to get a good setup/compromise for the race..

Would be nice to have full working motec like pcars had..average fuel consumption, tyre/brake heat etc... but we have what we have and it does the job.

 

No not in litres or gallons just an orange line , you can hardly be precise using that.

 

So ok I'll max the tank do one lap now how do I work out how many litres Im using per lap to inable me to ascertain how much I need to last for 40 lap with one pit stop allowed ?

Bearing in mind this is all standard stuff in racing game .

 

The PC version (can I call it the "full version" without getting slammed?) shows how much fuel you use per lap after two complete laps in practice or qualy and an estimate of how far you'll get on whatever you put in. On console you have to figure it out yourself.

And, remember to change fuel load before the end of qualifying or you'll start a 10 lap race with 5 (litres\gallons\whatevers) of fuel and have to pit (happened on my first online race).

I think this missing feature is reflective of inate limitations on console which is why we have sod all telemetry including tyre temps. Might be wrong but I can't believe it's missing for any other reason.

 

No put in 10 litres and drive until you run out. For example if you can do 3 laps before you run out you know that 10 litres will do 3 laps, so therefore 100 litres will do roughly 30 laps. So for your 40 lap race it would depend on when you wanted to pit.

I'd personally go as far as I could on first stint so full tank to start with and tyres to match the fuel distance pit around lap 28 or so and take about 40 litres of fuel depending on what's left in the tank when I pit..

Pcars is the only game I've played that's had fuel consumption readout on it,haven't played any f1 games so don't know about them but in granturismo games you barely even had working fuel gauges in most cars.

I agree 100% that these things would be nice but it's useable as it is too..

 

Yeah thats basically what im doing at the moment, would be nice though for a simple gauge that shows litres, or average laps per quantity in the pit menu. For a sim there's a lot of basic stuff missing imho.

 

I can see how that would come in handy if for instance your driving say oh I don't know maybe that particular car , but what about all the cars that do not have that information panel?

 

I thought u were talking about race cars when you used the word endurance

 

Not sure if your being serious or not ?
You realise any car can be involved in an endurance event right ?

Myself and a friend did a 6hr N/A event in Sweden driving a Alfa 156 , endurance is in relation to the lenth of the event not the class of car .