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Anyone care to share the secret of converting the records.txt data to
mph?

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Chuck Stuart - Mesquite TX USA  
RaceTime utility program for Nascar1/Indycar2.  
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~cstuart/

Track Length * 3600000 / record.txt time = MPH

example

Track Length 1.5 miles
record.txt time 30000  which represents 30.000 seconds

1.5 * 60 * 60 * 1000 / 30000 = 180.000

in N1 and ICR2 it varies for each track.

Mike

You can download the program from my homepage which is in my signature
below.

Also like to mention that Michael Carver helped me out with the ICR
info...

Larry Abels
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:16:20 -0600, Chuck Stuart

1.522 miles  *  3600 sec/hr  /  29.476 seconds  =  185.887 mph

   The problem is determining the exact length of the tracks.  You can
not necessarily trust the lengths quoted in the manual (as I did above
for the example).  NASCAR1 was as much as 5% off in track lengths. :(
I haven't checked NASCAR2 yet.  The best way to get the length of each
Papyrus track is to multiply a lap time (in seconds) by the matching
(ie: provided by the game) lap speed (in mph) and divide by 3600.

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