Is there a file you can edit to set your start postion in a quick race? I
don't see that as an in game option anywhere.
David G Fisher
Maybe they need to add that little phrase you sometimes see in side mirors on
cars -- "Objects are closer than they appear"......
Can't help you on the question about editing your Quick race start position.
Sorry.
Bert
> Is there a file you can edit to set your start postion in a quick race? I
> don't see that as an in game option anywhere.
> David G Fisher
Cars in the Mirror? When the leaders whiz by I don't have TIME to look at
the stinkin' mirror!!!
dave henrie
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1907 - Daytona Beach Florida
Glenn H. Curtiss rode a V8 powered motorcycle
to a 136.30 mph record in the measured mile.
The Chicago Daily News headline reads:
"Fastest Mile On Earth, Bullets Are The Only Rivals Of Glenn Curtiss"
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Chris G.
yeah, cannonball rally was burt reynolds' cast of tens with cool redneck
humor. i know, i laughed....;)
rob
It's there to give you better sensory input to help with the loss of
peripheral vision you get on a 2D monitor. I like it.
> > You're correct about the mirror. It does and it shouldn't. I've never
> seen
> > a convex mirror used as a rearview or drivers side mirror on a race
> > car.....specially a WC car.
> > Naz"T"
> It's there to give you better sensory input to help with the loss of
> peripheral vision you get on a 2D monitor. I like it.
Yea, you are right, now that I think about it. There were two types of
mirrors, the concave one as we have now and the one you mention above. I
guess Papy decided it was too much work doing both or the other type caused
too much of a perfrormance hit.
Don't know about your second question, but you can turn on the roll cage in
the rear view and that also puts the rear spoiler in the view. Then the cars
will 'appear' the proper distance behind you. If you run without the roll
cage and spoiler activated, the cars behind you will look further away than
they actually are.
I didn't invent this technique...it was hammered into me at the first
Piterressi Racing School I took back in my rookie year in racing. The
instructors would pull you into the pits for a stop. They would ask you,
"What's the color and car number of the three cars that were behind you on
that last lap?" If you couldn't tell them....they'd make you sit in the
pits until the session was over.....loosing track time at a racing school
was not fun....nor was the fact that everyone could see you sitting in the
pits "the penalty pits"...lol....!!! It was a good way to teach you to
develop the "eye sweep" habit. They'd also ask you questions about your
gauges....you never knew exactly what they'd ask....so you learned pretty
quickly by "day two" of the school to be ready to answer the questions. I
lost some valuable track time at that school....as did all the
rookies.....but I gained a very good "racing tool" very early in my racing
career because of it.
All you rookie sim drivers out there should at least give this a try. You
will be amazed at how much more "situationally aware" you become during a
race or practice session. It does work.
Just a helpful hint.....
Tom
> > How come the mirror gives the impression that the car behind you is
about
> 4
> > car lengths back when it actually is only half a car length? I've gotten
> > used to it, but it seems too far off especially since you drive bumper
to
> > bumper so much in NASCAR.
> > Is there a file you can edit to set your start postion in a quick race?
I
> > don't see that as an in game option anywhere.
> > David G Fisher
> Cars in the Mirror? When the leaders whiz by I don't have TIME to look
at
> the stinkin' mirror!!!
> dave henrie
That's what I loved about driving sprints on dirt....in every corner you
could glance over your left shoulder and see what's happening behind you:-)
Naz"T"
