rec.autos.simulators

I'm a bit new to racing sims (and racing in general) and I was wondering if
someone could shed some light on a few items in the patched version of CPR.
Are these bugs or features?

1.  Damage modeling.  Don't Formula 1 cars usually more or less disintegrate
if they crash into a wall (or head-on with another car) at 200+ mph.  Mine,
don't--and I can almost always drive away.

2.  Transmission 1.  I can drive around and around and around in first gear
revving at top speed without blowing the transmission.  Can real Indy cars
do this?

3.  Transmission 2.  I can pop the car into reverse at 200 mph grind to a
halt and start moving backwards with no ill effect.  Is this for real?

5.  Qualifying.  I don't understand how to qualify on the street tracks.  On
the ovals you must make two warm-up laps and two official laps.  On the
street tracks (like Australia) you must do 300!! laps.  Is this right or do
I not understand the rules?

Dave

I believe that the cars have rev limiters so you can't over rev them.  I'm
not sure if the engines are protected when down-shifting though.

Probably not, but who cares since it doesn't affect game play.

Not sure about this.

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Kevin
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I've noticed people saying that only the wings and wheels are damaged during
crashes on CPR but I have had the sides of my cars damaged too. It's all
gray where the body has come off. I rotated around the car over an over when
it was put in the pits to make sure.

Dave

In the realism menu, it is possible to make this time shorter.  30mins is
the time in real life.

Therefore it is only possible to do 300 laps in practice or test drive mode
:-)

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Glenn Beaumaris

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The things you mention, and some others, are why many people don't consider
CPR a sim at all, but rather an arcade game.

You do not understand the rules.  When you qualify on the road courses, take a
look at your pit board (the one telling you 300 laps), and you'll also notice
a timer.  Qualifying on non-ovals involves turning the fastest lap you can
within that time limit.  Other cars are on the track at the same time.  It
says 300 laps to inform you that there is no rules-based limit on how many
laps you can do -- just a logical limit (i.e. if you have 15 minutes and can
do a lap in 1 minute, you can do appx 15 laps).

There is a setting, I believe in REALISM, that allows you to set the amount of
time you have to qualify on non-ovals.

-- Mark

Thank-you all for the comments.

Dave