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Newbie IndyCar player has questions

4 posts by 4 people · 02 Jun 1995 - 06 Jun 1995

us002.. 02 Jun 1995#302011
This is COOL! When I start Indycar, sometimes it asks me to calibrate my wheel and sometimes it goes straight to the password section. What determines if I have to calibrate each time? When running with yellow flags on, how do I determine where I should be in the field when under yellow? How can I tell when we are 1 lap away from green? Is there somewhere where I can learn more about tuning my IndyCar for optimal performance? I have started working with wings, etc., but I need to get more information than came in the manual. Thanks, Ben Clark
Hell if I know. I have been playing IndyCar forever and the only answer I can come up with is it must have something to do with the current moon phase. The computer will keep track of where you should be in IndyCar. If you pass a car you shouldn't you will not be allowed to apply gas until the car passes you again. As for the one lap from green, there is no way to tell in IndyCar Racing. You just have to get guess. Most cautions last for 3-4 laps. You just have to play with your setup. Make an adjustment, check it's impact on the tires and lap speeds, change something else, etc. The easiest way to become competitive is to call the Papyrus BBS and download some average setups. Unfortunately this takes half of the fun out of the game. Jon
Also, before you try to get going too fast, make sure you can consistently hit the corners in the same way from lap to lap. Setup adjustments *really* depend on driving style, and if you're not consistent you can't properly judge what effect your setup adjustments are having. Simply hitting the line right (where "right" can vary quite a bit depending on your setup and speed) can make a couple mph difference easily. --
True enough, but check out ftp://didnt.doit.wisc.edu/icr/ for a lot of useful stuff on IndyCar. -- Terje Wold Johansen "I am your inferior superior." -- -- Dept. of Informatics -- -- University of Oslo, Norway --

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