GP2: Anyone blown a motor yet?

Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) JR

: Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the : car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential : failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. : I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to : keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) The only problem I've received is an "electrical failure" which locked up the display and stuck me in 5th gear. I saw someone else's engine blow up and huge flames were shooting out the back -Scott

. . > Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the . > car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential . > failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. . > . > I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to . > keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) . . I have gotten a blown engine, and also one time I had a transmission . problem, the car lost forward drive, much like Mika Hakkinen this weekend . at Hockenheim. I got a water leak the other day at Japan. Pit crew fixed it in 8 seconds! ken

> Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the > car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential > failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. > I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to > keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) I have gotten a blown engine, and also one time I had a transmission problem, the car lost forward drive, much like Mika Hakkinen this weekend at Hockenheim. Talk about realism. Oh both times it was while driving the Benneton. Not sure if you have to turn off Invincibility, since I don't use it. Cheers. --John -- ------------------- John (Joao) Silva http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jsilva Seattle, Washington USA.

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> > Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the > > car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential > > failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. > > I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to > > keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) > I have gotten a blown engine, and also one time I had a transmission > problem, the car lost forward drive, much like Mika Hakkinen this weekend > at Hockenheim. > Talk about realism. Oh both times it was while driving the Benneton. > Not sure if you have to turn off Invincibility, since I don't use it. > Cheers. > --John

I can agree. On my williams, I blew an engine (all of a sudden lots of smoke and even a fire and no drive anymore) and once my front suspension broke (just one wheel sticking up in the air and I wasn't in a Ferrari ). Cool! ManueL.

>Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the >car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential >failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. >I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to >keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) >JR My throttle stuck wide open (I think I was invincible). Frightening. Tried to feather the accelerator and get back to the pits, but couldn't make it! Simon

I was very 'lucky' in a way, that I had no mechanical problems with my car yet even with all the failures turned on :( And I was driving a McLaran as well for a few 66% races. I am also getting relatively few failures in CC cars as well (about 2-3 cars in the whole 66% of a race) which is suprising reliable for racing cars. I wonder how many CC cars failures that you guys got in a typical longish race? Half of the field down perhaps? Jeff Wong

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> On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:40:02 -0500, Jonathan Robinson > >Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the > >car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential > >failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. > At rookie level playing a Championship my engine blew within 5 laps at > Brazil, I was driving a McLaren with no aids turned on.

I've had throttle problems, the throttle suddenly increased as I was going round corner and took the front wheel and wing off, excellent!!!

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>> > Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the >> > car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential >> > failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. >> > I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to >> > keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) >> I have gotten a blown engine, and also one time I had a transmission >> problem, the car lost forward drive, much like Mika Hakkinen this weekend >> at Hockenheim. >> Talk about realism. Oh both times it was while driving the Benneton. >> Not sure if you have to turn off Invincibility, since I don't use it. >> Cheers. >> --John >I can agree. On my williams, I blew an engine (all of a sudden lots of >smoke and even a fire and no drive anymore) and once my front suspension >broke (just one wheel sticking up in the air and I wasn't in a >Ferrari ). Cool! >ManueL.

In the Simtek during a 100% Championship Season on Ace level, I lost my right front suspension on lap 16 at Monaco and lost my transmission on lap 3 in Spain. The average DNF over the first five races has been 7.5 with a high of 9 falling out of the Spanish Grand Prix. Most are mechanicals. The AI seem to get out of the gravel traps as easily as the player. Maybe down the road a utility could be written to make the gravel a race ender if you come to a complete stop. eric

On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:40:02 -0500, Jonathan Robinson >Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the >car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential >failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. At rookie level playing a Championship my engine blew within 5 laps at Brazil, I was driving a McLaren with no aids turned on.

>I got a water leak the other day at Japan. Pit crew fixed it in 8 seconds! Yeah, shame it's so unrealistic isn't it? Oh well.... I got a puncture at Brazil, on my right-rear tyre, so I got instantly plunged off the track. Suspension failures act in the same way I believe, but you get a warning beforehand. Dave B. PS. I've also had oil leaks, an electrical failure and transmission probs.

I've blown an engine on the 27 Ferrari while braking for Tosa on lap 1. On the replay, all of a sudden white smoke out the back of the car. I didn't notice this during the race until I tried to accelerate up the hill. No power and very limited revs. Can say that I did anything weird setting prior to the breakdown other than the usual locking of tires going into the turn. Russ

>> I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to >> keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) don't worry, it happened to me ... I was forced to park on the side, and watch the end of the race... I was playing a nullmodem link race with a friend...

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> On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:40:02 -0500, Jonathan Robinson > >Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the > >car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential > >failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. > At rookie level playing a Championship my engine blew within 5 laps at > Brazil, I was driving a McLaren with no aids turned on.

On Hockenheim my car got stuck in 5th gear, so i fell back from 2nd to 5th place at the end of the race.

>> On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:40:02 -0500, Jonathan Robinson >> >Does anyone know if you need to have invincibility turned off before the >> >car realism settings take affect? I turned on all the potential >> >failures but haven't been able to get anything to fail yet. >> At rookie level playing a Championship my engine blew within 5 laps at >> Brazil, I was driving a McLaren with no aids turned on. >On Hockenheim my car got stuck in 5th gear, so i fell back from 2nd to >5th place at the end of the race. Haven't blown a motor yet, but at Brazil, just after I took the lead, I felt the car lucrch going through one of the corners. Looked at the dash display and it said "Suspension Failure".

I've had the following failures usually during practice and qualifying in championship mode, never had one in just practice by yourself. Throttle Problem - The Throttle got stuck, kinda cool driving around with the throtle stuck open until you hit a wall and can't stop the bastard thing. Brake Problem - Brakes were very innefective, they still worked, but very very slow, interesting fault to worked kinda neat I thought, although it happened on one of my best qualifying laps :) Transmission Failure, Couldn't changed into second, all the other gears worked ok, but 2nd wouldn't go so I was stuck with 1st basically till I got to the pits. Thats all I've experienced but all of them had a challenge and it wasn't like you were immediately kicked out of the race. I much prefer this than to ICRIi when you toouch a wall your tire would blow and your out of the race etc etc etc. And the other drivers in ICRII would always ram you up the arse etc, definately not as smart as in F1GP2. Cu Steve

: I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to : keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) I have had an engine failure. I only managed to practice for a couple of laps and then the engine starded to make strange noise. I also lost a lot of horsepower. My rear mirrors were filled with smoke from my engine. I drove almost half a lap, but then I crashed to the wall and didn't see what would have happened if I had just kept on driving. -Abntti -- URL http://www.iki.fi/ast/ "If it works, don't fix/touch it"

: : I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to : : keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) : I have had an engine failure. I only managed to practice for a couple : of laps and then the engine starded to make strange noise. I also lost : a lot of horsepower. My rear mirrors were filled with smoke from my : engine. I drove almost half a lap, but then I crashed to the wall and : didn't see what would have happened if I had just kept on driving. One cant' blow their engine by over reving.. Much with the mechanical failures one you can have Engine failure (among other things)... IN qualifiying, I finally was putting together a good lap after about 4 laps of spinning via accelerating too fast, when my transmission failed and I couldn't get past first gear. I have seen numerous engine failures by the computer cars (in one race about 6 cars went out with blown engines, 4 of which I managed to catch in replay). So far I have seen two types. One where white smoke billows out of the engine for a while (as long as 2 laps) when the car finally gives out and the driver pulls off. The other has been white smoke as above, but when he pulls off there are flames shooting out of the engine. My brother said he was behind a car when it's engine gave out, when it parked tothe side a bunch of black smoke came out then the engine burst into flames. ### ./\. ### JASON POTAPOFF. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ### \ / ### "You got any toilet paper over there?" ### >______< ### "No." ### / ### "You got five ones for a five?"

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>>> I would drive around with invincibility turned off but I can't seem to >>> keep the car together long enough to blow a motor. :) >don't worry, it happened to me ... I was forced to park on the side, >and watch the end of the race... I was playing a nullmodem link race >with a friend... I was doing a full distance race in Canada and my engine went on lap 32 whilst in second place. Even more galling, on an 83 lap race at Aida my throttle went on lap 78 ! I was over 10 seconds in the lead. Now I know how Gerhard Berger felt in Germany. Jochen.