Is there any point to press the sprint button if you have no red bar left and just a little bit of yellow? Or is it better to just go on 99 dot effort. Or no difference?
tadzhiks wrote:
Is there any point to press the sprint button if you have no red bar left and just a little bit of yellow? Or is it better to just go on 99 dot effort. Or no difference?
With no red bar, forget it.
It's impossible to win or make a good place with no red bar.
Thanks for the answer, but what i was asking, for example, I'm on a breakaway with other 5 riders and no red bar is left and just a bit of yellow. Which way would be better to finish - sprinting or 99 effort dot?
This is a good question. I have had the same dilemma myself on hard mountain stages, where my lead rider and evidently his competitors all burned their red bar before the sprint. When we reached the final sprint, they started sprinting and I decided to do the same. It turned out that I wasn't going slower or faster than they were, which made me believe that my competitors also burned their red bar.
I guess the real question is what the sprint action and the stat do exactly.
I won a mountain stage once doing dot. All the favorites start sprinting, but I had no red bar left. I kept dot, and actually passed them and won the stage.
However, I don't know how this strategy works on the flat. I'm thinking dot if wind is high, sprint if wind is low. But again, for flats, I 've got no idea.
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If all riders are sprinting and you can overtake them with the dot, then that would be a bug in the game. So I would recommend not to think about it that much and just do what the AI riders do. I mean, do you really want to win because the AI riders sprinted although they would have been faster without it?
