There's a rumor that's been going around (don't recall if anyone posted it
here) that on Hawaii, your tire and chassis selection was based on your car
number. The suggested solution was to edit the DRIVERS.TXT/DRIVER2.TXT and
change all the drivers to use your selected car and chassis. I posed this
question to Papyrus and received the following response from Mike Lescault:
I hope this clears the air somewhat.
Dave "davids" Sparks
Sequoia Motorsports
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> There's a rumor that's been going around (don't recall if anyone posted it > here) that on Hawaii, your tire and chassis selection was based on your car > number. The suggested solution was to edit the DRIVERS.TXT/DRIVER2.TXT and > change all the drivers to use your selected car and chassis. I posed this > question to Papyrus and received the following response from Mike Lescault: > >The car chassis and tire set that you receive are determined by what you > >have selected in your Driver Info section of the game. So, in other > >words, we use your default settings for chassis and tires, not the > >settings for whatever car you may happen to end up in. Editing Driver.TXT > >or Driver2.TXT will not make any difference. > >Mike_L > I hope this clears the air somewhat. > Dave "davids" Sparks > Sequoia Motorsports Tho this does sound right it doesnt explain what happened yesterday when> Tho this does sound right it doesnt explain what happened yesterday when
> I tried a race at Talladega. Using the same Qual setup I use for MP (not
> the one for Nascar) I could only get my lap speed up to 191 instead of
> the usual high 193 to mid 194. Anyone have any ideas about whats going
> on?
Even if your chassis choice wasn't what you wanted, it would not make a 2-3
mph difference. Did you check the wind and temperature? These can
have a large impact on speeds.
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>Tho this does sound right it doesnt explain what happened yesterday when
>I tried a race at Talladega. Using the same Qual setup I use for MP (not
>the one for Nascar) I could only get my lap speed up to 191 instead of
>the usual high 193 to mid 194. Anyone have any ideas about whats going
>on?
That could be weather. Hawaii has two weather conditions, as far as I can
tell. If you set the conditions, you get 70 degrees, no wind. If you choose
random weather, you get 85 degrees, wind NW 7mph. Believe it or not, 15
degrees can make a huge difference. As an example, I pushed the temperature
up to 120 degrees once, and did a qual session in the high 197's.
Dave "davids" Sparks
Sequoia Motorsports
