Let me share this brilliantly silly way to keep enjoying WEC without breaking immersion: Crank every realism setting to the max, synchronize everything with official race conditions, delete those annoying AI drivers, and take on Le Mans completely alone. Drive a few laps, save your progress, then pause to watch a segment of the actual WEC broadcast. Imagining I was right there racing alongside them just moments ago.Compare everything — your pit stops, lap times, tire choices, all measurable metrics. Then vividly imagine you're actually battling those real-world drivers on the same track. Why is the circuit empty except for you? Well, obviously everyone else exists in another dimension.
Coincidentally, I'm also doing my own solo Le Mans run — been at it for a week now. Those tedious AI tests wasted so much of my time, so now I'm racing purely for myself. The results aren't exactly impressive, but compared to the real-world Ford and AMG cars that retired after just dozens of laps, at least my virtual car can still keep going for hundreds more laps.
If the 11 issues I raised are too difficult to fix... Well, I doubt the developers can't be bothered to put in the effort. I don't even need them to fix any AI at all, because I don't necessarily require actual cars on the track. Just like starting a practice session in private mode, all I want is for the top-left UI during the actual race to display their lap times, energy levels, tire conditions, and other information. As long as they strictly follow the official WEC results and pit strategies to run this virtual simulation, that's all I ask. Let me chase their times in the competition—let's call it the "Private Le Mans Mode." It would be great to include a save-anytime feature. As for difficulty settings, use the 100% difficulty as the benchmark for official results and scale performance accordingly. I remember there were 56 tires in total, including several qualifying sessions and the main race. Disable tire warming and set all other configurations to "real." Let's start like this.Actually, during a race, all we can really focus on are our own tires, grip, fuel levels, oil temperatures, and the movements of the few cars closest to us—that's about it. We're not omniscient—it's absolutely impossible to drive while simultaneously checking each individual car to see whether their wear rates are high or low. When it comes down to it, the purpose of most other cars boils down to just one thing: time. A reference that pushes us forward, motivates us to chase, and immerses us in the authentic competitive atmosphere of WEC racing.
The reason I'm saying this is that I don't think they can resolve those 11 issues. So, I'm willing to pay extra for this Private Le Mans DLC that fully replicates the official results—on the condition that the timings, results, and strategies must exactly match what I see in the official videos. Recently, I’ve watched onboard footage from at least eight cars. Most of the time, they were struggling with their own cars, fuel, and tires. There was very little actual wheel-to-wheel combat; most of the time, it was just following other cars. If you think chasing times alone is too lonely, you could ask them to render the cars closest to your time as "ghosts," creating shadows to keep you company as you form a train... Well, from our perspective, that would look almost identical to the official onboard footage. There would be no need to force them to develop complex and frustrating AI programs anymore. They could just use the DLC revenue to buy some coffee, take a sip, and copy-paste the data. Oh, and by the way, this way even my crappy computer could finally handle a full Le Mans experience. Why not go for it?
You have no idea how absurd my current setup is—I'm running a solo Le Mans race in-game while simultaneously streaming an actual Le Mans event on my phone. The moment the flag drops on my phone screen, I start the formation lap in the game. We set off together, pit together, I save the game progress while pausing the video... So please, just release that DLC already and liberate my poor phone from this double duty!
Exactly! I'm using that same video you shared – racing while listening to the commentary. It's absolutely fantastic! I was thinking, how amazing would it be if we could embed this video directly into the game's UI, occupying a small corner of the screen...
