I get a pit lane speed penalty every time in Lausitz. Pit speed limiter is engaged and I get the penalty almost immediately after I restart the race after the pit stop. It has ruined 2 long endurance races. I do not have a problem going in the pits, only when I leave them. Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug?
Could you explain what you mean by that? You don't disable the speed limiter too soon? (I have that problem a lot )
No. I do not. Even if you have the speed limiter on most of the time you get little spikes over the speed limit if you push the pedal. I guess there is a problem with this course that the speed limit is too narrow. Even if you get over the limit just a little bit you get the drive through.
Yes, I don not drive all courses but so far I only experienced this in Lausitz. The DTM Short Course to be exact.
Actually you can avoid the penalty when you scrupulously take care that you do not exceed 60 even for a milisecond. You cannot rely on the pit speed limiter at all.
Î guess I'm probably going to yield some antagonism for saying this, but a pit lane speed limiter is not a fail-safe device in the real world. http://www.longroadracing.com/images/TSB_February_28_2017C_Pit_lane_speed_limiter.pdf https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=627437250618419 I know this is a game and that there are certain aspects that make it more difficult than doing the real thing. What these quotes from real world engineers should highlight is that a ECU limiter is a driving aid and not meant or able to completely replace the driver and his decisions. Nevertheless, there is a built in leeway in RR which should compensate for those rev spikes. So if it doesn't in this case it should probably be looked into.
Well, it works quite well and exact in my real life BMW. But as you said somehow the leeway is missing on this track's pit lane. Or it is a problem with BMW M235i. It is not that you have to push the pedal to the metal to make it happen. Hitting the limiter is enough to make it happen.
In that case it might actually be connected to the car, because the 235 (from my pov) has always had an issue with its drivetrain elasticity in RR. To me it just feels way too pronounced for my liking and I'd guess that could be part of the problem here. Out of curiosity, do you drive the 235 in real life and if so, would you say the drivetrain oscillations in RR are too strong or accurate compared to the real car?
No, alas I am driving a 5 series with a Diesel engine . I had he opportunity to drive a M240i performance recently but only on regular roads and was not able to push it enough to make this kind of observation. What you are saying seems to make a lot of sense though as these rev spikes a pretty extreme. However I am asking myself if it is a problem of the M235i alone it should be on every track or shouldn't it?
I think I found the culprit but still have to reproduce it. It seems that the speed limiter is actually set to 80kmh while the pit speed limit is 60 kmh.