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FASTRACE for NASCAR 2

After the first week of FASTRACE 97  here is an exceptional time turned
in by
Mike Grandy.  The track is dega and he averaged 195.604 from a dead stop

start.  Whew!!!  195.604.  Just when I thought the SUPER TEAM SMOKKINU
was gonna smoke us.  Ole Grandy shows up.  Mike Has been very fast at
dega from day 1.  No Surrpise..

Race Final   1/1/96         Race No. 1     Talladega Superspeedway
                       Season: FASTRACE       2.660 miles    42 laps
Current after 0 events

                      Fin Str      Driver                     Laps
Led   Pts  Qual  Reason Out

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       1   5  #96  Mike Grandy                 42   10
180 195.608   Running
                   Race time - 34:16.165 Average speed - 195.604mph
Margin of victory - 0.261sec
                       1   1   #1  Jim Butts                   42   42
185 196.157   Running
                  Race time - 34:24.457 Average speed - 194.820mph
Margin of victory - 13.283sec
                       1  19  #96  Jim Webb                    42   42
185 194.879   Running
                   Race time - 34:26.808 Average speed - 194.598mph
Margin of victory - 0.166sec
                       1   6  #65  Joe B. Farr                 42   42
185 195.588   Running
                   Race time - 34:28.850 Average speed - 194.404mph
Margin of victory - 8.491sec
                       1  11  #27  DonWilsheIVGA               42   42
185 195.257   Running
                   Race time - 34:30.297 Average speed - 194.270mph
Margin of victory - 0.453sec
                       1  15  #96  John Montes Jr.             42   42
185 195.312   Running
                  Race time - 34:30.936 Average speed - 194.207mph
Margin of victory - 12.090sec

The FASTRACE 97 is run year around and is a full tank off-line sprint
race.  Come by
and check out FASTRACE as it can be used on all the tracks...

Don Wilshe, IVGA

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

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The problem I see with Fastrace is the "random" abilities that are
applied to the AI.

I'm adjusting my setup to work well in traffic, but the traffic is
inconsistant.

With the exact same setup, but a different pass thru Fastrace I can turn
laps upto 197.750, other times I have a hard time reaching 196.500.

It's all based on the "random" abilities the lead AI car has.

To reach 197.750 *I* have to draft behind an AI (Bumping when
reasonable).

But sometimes even that isn't enough to get the leader going fast
enough.

I could conceivably reach 197.750 if the AI were to draft close behind
me, but that doesn't happen.

So at this point, it's a craps shoot.  If you show up strong, and the AI
shows up strong, those records will fall.

I've been ahead of the pace to break to previous record only to slip and
lose the draft with about 10 laps left.  That costs about 2 mph per lap.

The other thing that is real frustrating is when both you and an AI are
going good only to have another AI somewhere back in the pack have
problems.  When you come back around to pass the slow car, your
"drafting buddy" gets hung up by the slow traffic.

mykey

Mykey:

And you can submit as many attempts at each track as you like...

That is because I assume you are getting lots of drafting help some
time...

Yes... That is the secret to off-line racing.. Darfting not passing..

That is a bumme.. Thats what GOD invented SHIFT R for <GGG>

Yes.. But its still better than RANDOM YELLOWS...   You can now
do the RACEBILL which is 35 laps of unrestricted racing at dega....

I will forward all this info to JOE FARR the designer of FASTRACE

Thanks for the input

Don

I dont see what the big deal is about a lowly 197 anyway. All the locals
I run modem with pop high/197,98s all day. I assume we are talking about
n2?

-Dave-

but after all that.. Even you didn't talk about anything but "Dega".

Atlanta.. I found that if you have a loose setup, you had better stay
away from the white line exiting turn 4.

Can you say hello pit wall?

mykey