Of course Marcus, to achieve this all you have to do is park the
car on the grass and then use all the views to see the race.
Similarly, if you think it should take your 'team' 30 seconds to
change a nose or 5 minutes to replace a rear wing ... then just
sit in the pits.
If you think 10 second penalty flag should force you to come in for a
10 second pit penalty .... drive into your pit and wait 10 seconds.
If you think the gravel trap should bog the card down as in real-life,
then stop trying to get out and start using the camera views to
watch the rest of the race. If you'd like to have a level of
randomness - through a dice and let a six let you out.
Unhappy that hitting the armco at 80mph shuld damage the car
and make it undrivable ? Well stop driving and watch the race.
Whilst it would be nice for the sim to have all these options.
It's more to get wrong and will make it later.
There are a number of gripes on what this package does and doesn't
do where their are simple actions the 'driver' can take to make
them mirror real life.
Maybe we should create a set of additional 'rules' that we should
all adhere to to make the 'sim' more 'realistic'.
Personally, if I'm driving seriously, I stop driving if I think
I would have been wiped-out ( was pushed into the barrier at
Eau-Rouge while trying a suicidal overtaking move - I considered
myself flown to the hospital ! )
But, if I'm having 'fun' or trying to improve, I take every
advantage the 'sim' has to make up for my poor driving !!
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