N2002-Bristol Help

Never really did much on the Bristol track while playing Nascar 4, but now I've got N2002 I'd love to learn how to race on this oval properly (off-line). My problem is that I find it so difficult to pass cars, and when I do it usually causes some type of accident! Any advice to increase my racing skills here would be appreciated. PJ

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:09:47 -0000, "Paul Jager" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Never really did much on the Bristol track while playing Nascar 4, but now >I've got N2002 I'd love to learn how to race on this oval properly >(off-line). My problem is that I find it so difficult to pass cars, and when >I do it usually causes some type of accident! This is normal I believe.. I don't have much Nascar experience either, but Bristol is one of the hardest tracks, if not THE hardest.. constant close racing (even if you're 3 laps down :) , hard on the tires and damn difficult to pass. Just stay on the inside, use every passing opportunity and don't be affraid to scrape some metal from your car :) Btw, amazing how well the AI behaves at Bristol so far.. Andre

One of the best ways to pass is to get on someone's bumper, CLOSE, into a turn, ride it through the turn, and blast pass them to the inside as you exit the turn. Be careful trying to outbrake going into a turn. Also, when there's room available per other cars, it's good to diamond the corners very slightly, and clip the apron on turn exit. Works for me anyway :) -John "Paul Jager" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ScNc8.2398$[email hidden]... > Never really did much on the Bristol track while playing Nascar 4, but now > I've got N2002 I'd love to learn how to race on this oval properly > (off-line). My problem is that I find it so difficult to pass cars, andwhen

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> I do it usually causes some type of accident! > > Any advice to increase my racing skills here would be appreciated. > > > PJ > >

John Pancoast <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > One of the best ways to pass is to get on someone's bumper, CLOSE, intoa > turn, ride it through the turn, and blast pass them to the inside as you > exit the turn. > > Be careful trying to outbrake going into a turn. Also, when there'sroom

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> available per other cars, it's good to diamond the corners very slightly, > and clip the apron on turn exit. > > Works for me anyway :) > > -John >

That's good advice John, if you watch the big boys, they dive in almost touching the apron, come up off the at the apex a little, then almost touch the apron exiting as well. This seems to keep the amount of 'brushing' the wall on exits to a minimum. Hard to do in traffic tho...

All posters offered good advice, did you watch the driving lesson by DW as well? Maybe for practice try turning on the driving line as well. -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Paul Jager <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ScNc8.2398$[email hidden]... > Never really did much on the Bristol track while playing Nascar 4, but now > I've got N2002 I'd love to learn how to race on this oval properly > (off-line). My problem is that I find it so difficult to pass cars, and when > I do it usually causes some type of accident! > > Any advice to increase my racing skills here would be appreciated. > > > PJ > >

Yep, exactly. Also, N2002 is more realistic in terms of corner exiting too; in the previous titles before N4, you could get back on the gas anywhere in the turn, no problem. In N2002 though, you need to exit as it's done in the actual races; roll through the corners, and don't get back on the gas literally until you're exiting the turn, car is more or less going straight again. If you're fully back on the gas at the apex, sooner or later, you're going to run into trouble :) -John "SimRacer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:_UPc8.21214$[email hidden]... > > John Pancoast <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > One of the best ways to pass is to get on someone's bumper, CLOSE,into

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> a > > turn, ride it through the turn, and blast pass them to the inside as you > > exit the turn. > > > > Be careful trying to outbrake going into a turn. Also, when there's > room > > available per other cars, it's good to diamond the corners very

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> > and clip the apron on turn exit. > > > > Works for me anyway :) > > > > -John > > > > That's good advice John, if you watch the big boys, they dive in almost > touching the apron, come up off the at the apex a little, then almost

touch > the apron exiting as well. This seems to keep the amount of 'brushing' the > wall on exits to a minimum. Hard to do in traffic tho... > >

John Pancoast <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Yep, exactly. Also, N2002 is more realistic in terms of corner exiting > too; in the previous titles before N4, you could get back on the gas > anywhere in the turn, no problem. > > In N2002 though, you need to exit as it's done in the actual races; roll > through the corners, and don't get back on the gas literally until you're > exiting the turn, car is more or less going straight again. > If you're fully back on the gas at the apex, sooner or later, you're

going > to run into trouble :) > > -John > Yup, trouble spelled c-o-n-c-r-e-t-e :) Not so bad in the play races with no damage, a couple o taps with real damage has yeilded some interesting hood shapes for me in 2002 thus far...The major concern in gassing at the apex (aside from wall bangin) is the RF will erode more quickly.

I agree. A slight diamond when possible let's you run a looser setup without loosing forward bite on the exit as bad. -Larry "John Pancoast" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > One of the best ways to pass is to get on someone's bumper, CLOSE, intoa > turn, ride it through the turn, and blast pass them to the inside as you > exit the turn. > > Be careful trying to outbrake going into a turn. Also, when there'sroom

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> available per other cars, it's good to diamond the corners very slightly, > and clip the apron on turn exit. > > Works for me anyway :) > > -John > > > "Paul Jager" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:ScNc8.2398$[email hidden]... > > Never really did much on the Bristol track while playing Nascar 4, but

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> > I've got N2002 I'd love to learn how to race on this oval properly > > (off-line). My problem is that I find it so difficult to pass cars, and > when > > I do it usually causes some type of accident! > > > > Any advice to increase my racing skills here would be appreciated. > > > > > > PJ > > > > > >