Simple... some guy chats something and inadvertantly leaves a gap, which he
makes up in a burst of accelleration. This starts an accordeon effect in the
pacing line and at some point someone ends up having to slow from 95mph to
30mph very sharply, the guy behind just about manages to avoid an accident,
but gets rear-ended by the next guy down and this starts an accident.
Keeping the pacing speed reasonably constant is much harder than keeping
draft going.
Jan.
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By practice/ lerarning the track - i do ofcourse mean that one must be able
to keep the car on track and be able to drive **within oneselfs limits**.
There's no point practicing for hours on end, if you end up seeing red by
turn 2 - and then***it all up by trying to do the impossible!
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> >Some leagues have a minimum speed. If you cannot achieve the minimum
speed
> >in practice, you should not qual and race. The minimum can be posted
prior
> >to the event. The F2 screen will show during practice who has learned
the
> >track and can run the minimum speed. Minimum can be whatever you decide.
> >Would 37.xxx seconds have been a good minimum for Homestead at 70
degrees?
> >On the other hand, to keep the "fun level" up, maybe everyone should be
> >allowed to race everywhere regardless of proficiency.
> That's the problem. If someone can't keep the car on the track, it ruins
the
> races for OTHERS. I'm still trying to understand the crashes under the
yellow
> flags. Barring a hardware error with your computer, that's ***ing
STUPID...
> How the hell do you crash on a PACE lap?!?
> Eldred
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I normally don't participate in the chitchat all that much, but now I was
one of the big offenders. Why? Because I was doing three laps under yellow
for every two laps under green.
I took the blame at one point for the change in pace, I was on the head of
the field for a large part of the race and at one point apologized for the
changing pace. But later on, I noticed it wasn't my fault. When I got back
from my pitstop in 11th place, some where leaving huge gaps and closing them
every now and then to leave to open up the next corner.
So I wasn't responsible in my view for the changing pace, it could have been
a bit better but not much. Next time I'll withold of any chitchat, although
I had quite some good laughs.
> > > >I'm still trying to understand the crashes under the yellow
> > > > flags. Barring a hardware error with your computer, that's ***ing
> > > STUPID...
> > > > How the hell do you crash on a PACE lap?!?
> > > > Eldred
> Because people are too busy holding a ***in tea-party and chatting it
> up instead of concentrating on what they're doing.
> That's why I kept telling people to stop talking. Sure, everyone can say
> "just ignore the text flying across the top of the screen, but it's
> DISTRACTING to see it.
> Another problem is the guy at the head of the line somehow not knowing
> what the word "PACE" means. It means proceed forward at a steady speed
> with little or no diviation in that speed.
> Now, if you put the "steady speed" together with "no chat", it stands to
> reason there won't be any problems under yellow flag conditions.
> Here's a little tidbit for anyone that didn't know - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO
> BE RIGHT ON THE PACE CAR'S ASS. You could be half a lap behind and it
> DOESN'T MATTER. As long as you're proceeding at a steady PACE (there's
> that word again), nobody should be having a problem.
> If you need practice pacing the field, set the AI to 80% using no
> damage, and run offline. Practice yellows in the middle of the pack and
> at the front.
> It's not ***in rocket science guys.
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> > > Actually, you passed everyone<G> Even when going to the pits, you
can't
> > > pass those that stay on the track, and vice versa. You needed to stay
> > > "behind"(via F2 screen since he couldn't be seen) Tony in this case.
> > I considered that was the case, but it's such a stupid way to pit I
didn't
> > think it could be true. :-)
> If I could only type and drive, David, I would have warned you!
David G Fisher
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> It has always been like that, since the days of the NROS (it was 8 back
then
> and 3 in the mirror). There is a limit of cars you actually see on
screen,
> it's a complicated thing really. That setting you have inside NR2002
serves
> mostly for AI offline racing. The server only gives you an X number of
cars
> around you, only the ones closer to you. IIRC it can now since N4 be
> changed in the core.ini (similar to GPL).
Don Burnette
