>>Sounds to me like you were clipped from behind and sent for a spin.
>After looking at the replays from the 4 cars that were near by and
>from all possible angles, I concluded that I was not nearly close enough
>to be cliped, plus I was the only car on turn 3 to spin.
>>Did you look at the replay?????? I would love to have seen this. The
>>replay would have showed it all. As for you being 53 seconds behind,
>>that's probably because you never crossed the start/finish line, fell
>>way behind in all your spinning, then the track got blocked from
>>all the wrecks so the lead cars couldn't cross the finish line either.
>>I don't think this is a bug but it sounds like an incredible wreck.
>Nope. I only crashed out 3 cars, and they were no where close to the
>front. The situation is this, I spun through the concrete walls and came
>out on the other side of the track. I did not just sit there and spin.
>My car spun over 40 times, which is impossible, knowing how slow you must
>go at Bristol.
> started spinning here!
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> ( )
> \===========================/
> came out from the concrete here!
>I don't think anyone touched me, even if they did, I should have gone
>through the concrete like that. Maybe it has to do with the fact that
>damage is off.
apparently NASCAR has the same bug as IndyCar. I call it the "teleport" bug.
It's been biting us in IndyCar for years. One time I was racing at Vancouver,
a full lap ahead of the field when I went into the tunnel and I heard a *BLIP*
in the headphones, and I was suddenly spinning slowly - UNDER the stadium!
Another time I was leading a race at Australia when I heard that *BLIP* and
I ended up *IN* the wall right past the S/F line. I don't mean INTO the wall,
as in I _hit_ the wall, I mean I was __INSIDE__ the wall! The front wheels
were in pit lane, the rear wheels were out on hte front straight, and I was
at least a hundred meters from the pit exit. I didn't touch anything in either
case - the replay shows me crusing along in the middle of the road both
times, then the next frame shows me off in never-never land. another time
I was practicing at Australia and I hit the wall in T6; I was teleported
all the way down the course and I ended up crashing into the wall at T12.
Even after I collected the car from the spin I still managed a 1:21 lap,
which is about 5 seconds faster than the Internet record :-)
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Brian Wong Product Marketing Engineering
