rec.autos.simulators

  WOW!   I was just trying to run a short 20 lap race at C***te with no
opponents and experienced a bug I'd heard about before but had never
actually seen.  I was coming out of turn 2 still on the pace lap and BAM!
I was out of the track on the grass that SURROUNDS it spinning like a top
doing what appeared to be about 250 - 300 miles per hour.  After I finally
managed to get the car to stop I drove BACK to the track.  I could actually
see the stands from behind as I approached them.  When i started my journey
back to the track I could easily see all of the stands with empty space on
either side.  I was a long ways away.  I drove back at about 90 mph and
spend about 15 - 20 seconds to reach the stands outside the track itself.
as I drove over the wall to get back on the track I heard another LOUD bang
and once again was spinning like a top a very high rate of speed (was doing
approx 30 when I crossed/hit the wall).  On the replay it showed that when
it began I spent one frame at the start/finish line facing backwards, then
was back to normal for a frame or two, then was against the wall and thru
and outside the track.  On the return journey as I crossed the wall, All
four tires were knocked off, the motor was destroyed and all body paneling
that can come off did so.  The debris was flying thru the air, by all
appearances, about 10 - 20 feet above the track.  I saved the re-play and
will try and post it to the new binaries newsgroup if I can find it.  I
viewed the replay after I was ejected from the track and then resumed
driving.  Didn't watch to see if this lost the start of the "crash" or not
so the begining might not be there.

   File under: Totally Weird.       :-)

       Steve

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Yeah, I'm afraid that bug is fairly common and not just under certain
conditions.  It's happened to me while I was leading a race at Michigan at
100% length.  At around lap 115 I turned into turn 1 and as I reached the
apex of turn 1 there was a brief flash of the finish line and then I was
back at the spot I originally was but I was completly demolished.  4
damaged tires, I had torn off all of the metal and blew my engine.  I was so
unbelievably pissed but I suppose if I look at the positive I set an
unstoppable record of 479.231 MPH(beat that all you T1 drivers:)).
A similar thing happened at Dover as well but I was struggling majorly so I
wasn't too angry.

Alexander Dimson