Attn: Ed Martin ... Mystery crash at Michigan

Here's the scenario: League race at Michigan 90 laps. Running 4th rs tires fading lap 43. All but first four have pitted and are laps down. Praying for the yellow. It comes out great!! Make my pit stop come out still in 4th ready to finish race. Pace lap at 70 mph coming out of four and WHAM shoot into pit wall for no reason. Extensive damamge engine included. Race over for me. I had made chasis changes and could have pressed for the lead. Oh well. Has anyone ever had this happen to them???? Any explanations Ed? I saved the replay clip of the incident. Pretty frustrating to say the least he said with a :-). Thanks Mike Bruno JMB55

Mike Bruno, I saw this occur to you when I was coming out of turn four pretty far behind you. Seems as if there is some kind of a glitch at this track as I have also had this occur to me during practice. Always seems to happen just before the start of the pit wall. Another wierd thing that happened during that same race went like this: I was about 2 seconds behind a car going onto the backstretch when all of the sudden the car in front disappeared and reappeared spinning out right in front of me! It happened in about less than 2 seconds then all of the sudden it returned to its original position way up ahead of me. Man was my heart pumping! Oh well, guess it's just one of them racin deals. :) Ed or anyone else, Could anyone help give me a good ini. string for a Best Data 28.8 modem? I always have a poor connection when I connect to Hawaii. I use ATZ and have also tried lowering the connect speed. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Josh Carr Director of Public Relations and Head Channel Operator (#ivgacsnc, on undernet) International Video Gamers Association, Inc. Http://www.ivga.com IVGA Headquarters: International Video Gamers Association, Inc. (IVGA) 14100 Walsingham Avenue Suite 36 Largo, FL 34644 Voice: (813) 596-6661

After reviewing the replay frame by frame it seems that I warped up to the start/finish line past the pace car and then came back. In the interim it seems that I hit a phantom car that caused the sideways slide into the wall. Oh well :-). Mike Bruno JMB55

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>> Here's the scenario: >> League race at Michigan 90 laps. Running 4th rs tires fading lap 43. >> All but first four have pitted and are laps down. Praying for the >> yellow. It comes out great!! Make my pit stop come out still in 4th >> ready to finish race. Pace lap at 70 mph coming out of four and WHAM >> shoot into pit wall for no reason. Extensive damamge engine included. >> Race over for me. I had made chasis changes and could have pressed for >> the lead. Oh well. Has anyone ever had this happen to them???? Any >> explanations Ed? I saved the replay clip of the incident. Pretty >> frustrating to say the least he said with a :-). Thanks >> Mike Bruno >> JMB55 >After reviewing the replay frame by frame it seems that I warped up to >the start/finish line past the pace car and then came back. In the >interim it seems that I hit a phantom car that caused the sideways slide >into the wall. Oh well :-). >Mike Bruno >JMB55

I've had this happen to me modem racin and on Hawaii. Tought they fixed it, guess not. Pretty frustrating, eh?

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>Here's the scenario: > League race at Michigan 90 laps. Running 4th rs tires fading lap 43. >All but first four have pitted and are laps down. Praying for the >yellow. It comes out great!! Make my pit stop come out still in 4th >ready to finish race. Pace lap at 70 mph coming out of four and WHAM >shoot into pit wall for no reason. Extensive damamge engine included. >Race over for me. I had made chasis changes and could have pressed for >the lead. Oh well. Has anyone ever had this happen to them???? Any >explanations Ed? I saved the replay clip of the incident. Pretty >frustrating to say the least he said with a :-). Thanks >Mike Bruno >JMB55

You got HOGGED. There's a bug that teleports your car to another part of the track (usually the s/f line) for one frame and then back where it came from. At that point, you usually slam into a wall at several hundred miles per hour, your engine blows from over-revving and little bits of metal and fiberglass fly all over the place. However, you can get some awesome lap times that way, I've got a 200+ lap at Rockingham. <g> Dave "davids" Sparks Late Nite League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

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I find it interesting that when you s***the wall at Michigan in preseason testing using Multi.exe (1.36), it keeps a cloud of dust and smoke suspended in air at that point until you exit the track. I'm sure this is one of those random features. :-) BTW, I use a P133. I never experienced any problems with NCR1 before I upgraded to a P133 from 486. I imagine these warping problems are associated with the Pentium processors. If anyone can refute this by giving us an example of a similar problem using a 486, it might help Papyrus fix this. David Martin

>You got HOGGED. There's a bug that teleports your car to another part of >the track (usually the s/f line) for one frame and then back where it came >from. At that point, you usually slam into a wall at several hundred miles >per hour, your engine blows from over-revving and little bits of metal and >fiberglass fly all over the place. However, you can get some awesome lap >times that way, I've got a 200+ lap at Rockingham. <g> This happened to me once at Talladega while under the yellow in a single player race. Didn't blow my engine or wreck my car just threw me out of the track. I was about 2-4 (?) miles away from the track when I finally stopped spinning. I drove back to the track, between the stands, and attempted to drive over the wall (grass was level with top of wall) and as soon as my car was over the wall then I exploded. VERY WEIRD. Steve +-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | All the worlds a stage, | ("'-''-/").___..--''"'-._ | | and there's a comedy playing. | '6_ 6 ) '_. ( ).'-.__.') | | May as well enjoy the show. | (_Y_.) ._ ) '._ '. ''-..-' | | | _..'--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | +-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Go Dale Earnhardt #3 | Go Rusty Wallace #2 | +-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Split_S on IRC Steve_Sarlls on Hawaii sp-s on Warbirds | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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>I find it interesting that when you s***the wall at Michigan in >preseason testing using Multi.exe (1.36), it keeps a cloud of dust and >smoke suspended in air at that point until you exit the track. I'm sure >this is one of those random features. :-) >BTW, I use a P133. I never experienced any problems with NCR1 before I >upgraded to a P133 from 486. I imagine these warping problems are >associated with the Pentium processors. If anyone can refute this by >giving us an example of a similar problem using a 486, it might help >Papyrus fix this. >David Martin

I had a similar thing happen at 'dega. Smoke at several spots on the track for the entire race, right from the start line. Looked like someone had burnt *** for say...20ft or so. The strange part was their car must've had three rear wheels. ;-> There were three trails of smoke all equal length. Is this a glitch or just something I don't know about? Didn't seem to hurt anything. Just kinda shrugged my shoulders and went on. -- Dennis D'Avila 317-451-4707 *********(Succumbed to pear pressure and a four line sig. file.) ;->**********

BTW, I have a P100 with a Stealth64 Vid card. -- Dennis D'Avila 317-451-4707 *********(Succumbed to pear pressure and a four line sig. file.) ;->**********