GP2 car failure repairs

I have been playing GP2 for some time now, and have had numerous occasions of the car going out of race because of car problems. Yesterday I was unfortunate enough to have a transmission failure while in the lead. Because I was close to the pit, so I radioed in and slowly coasted in. Amazingly the crews were able to fix a transmission in 10 seconds! Although I didn't win because I lost a lot of time, but I finished the race! Not that I am complaining, but a real simulation shouldn't let this happen. Ok, a loose wheel or puncture is no big deal, but a transmission? I am wondering whether the super-crews will fix a smoking Yamaha engine in under 10 seconds... Any similar experiences or stories? --

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>I have been playing GP2 for some time now, and have had numerous occasions >of the car going out of race because of car problems. >Yesterday I was unfortunate enough to have a transmission failure while >in the lead. Because I was close to the pit, so I radioed in and slowly >coasted in. Amazingly the crews were able to fix a transmission in 10 >seconds! Although I didn't win because I lost a lot of time, but I finished >the race! >Not that I am complaining, but a real simulation shouldn't let this happen. >Ok, a loose wheel or puncture is no big deal, but a transmission? I am >wondering whether the super-crews will fix a smoking Yamaha engine in under >10 seconds... >Any similar experiences or stories? >--

Yes, I've had this happen a number of times to me, even when the engine is smoking - if it's not too far from the pits, they'll have it fixed in <10 sec - magic those mechanics are :) I've also seen it happen to the computer cars lots of times. In my current season (modified with a 97 car set), out of the 3 races so far, the 2 Williams cars have had 6 problems, 4 of which were fixed in the pits and in one case a car went on to win the race. Jamie ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ __ __ _ __ . __ Opinions expressed here are my own and not those of... (__)|-</-\(__ |__ -_

I'm pretty sure if you make it to the pit for *any* kind of failure in gp2, the pit crew will *fix* it in pretty rapid time? If you wanted to make it more realistic you could have sat in the pit lane for another 10.....15........20.......30 minutes? The most impressive failures are the oil leaks or engine failures, which usually result in loss of power, smoke from the rear of the car, and ultimately flames bursting out of the car!!!!!! d:~)) **Peter**

>>I have been playing GP2 for some time now, and have had numerous occasions >>of the car going out of race because of car problems. <snip> >>Because I was close to the pit, so I radioed in and slowly >>coasted in. Amazingly the crews were able to fix a transmission in 10 >>seconds! <snip> >>I am wondering whether the super-crews will fix a smoking Yamaha engine in under >>10 seconds... >>Any similar experiences or stories? Had an engine BLOW! Smoke. Flames. The whole schmeel. Coasted into the pit, 10 sec. later, racing. Damn but those pit guys are good! :-)

No matter what the repair is engine, transmission whatever all repairs in GP2 take 10 seconds. Most unrealistic. Just think of it as a minor repair, for instance in you case you could think that your problem was a faulty gear change and all you needed was a change of steering wheel. <g>. Robert Yates looking for sizzlers

>>>Any similar experiences or stories? >Had an engine BLOW! Smoke. Flames. The whole schmeel. >Coasted into the pit, 10 sec. later, racing. Damn but those pit guys >are good! :-) It was qualifying on Imola. I was in my outlap and driving a Williams, I still quickly got closer and closer to a Lotus. Then, WHOOOOOOOM, it's engine blew right in front of the pit entry. But.... instead of entering the pit, the Lotus took a left turn and continued it course on the track. Intrigued I followed and had to step on it to keep up. Seems a blown engine only creates smoke, but no real problems on a Lotus. P.S. Lotus come back in 1999 to F-1!!!!!!! This message brought to you by the one, the only, the brilliant, the shiny, the great-hair-doo-ed one, the cool spectacled one, -=>>>>> ACE RIMMER <<<<=- "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!" "To confuse means: to make somebody unable to think clearly. Then how come China's greatest philosopher is called Confucius?" Herbert Ackermans. http://www1.tip.nl/~t666442/ http://www.robotech.org/trooper Remove no.spam.thank.you from my address when replying.

"Peter Gagg" wrote in article ... I've only had gearbox problems once on Hockenheim. And that's all the failures I've experienced. Even when driving the track in first gear flat, I couldn't blow my engine, or destroy the clutch or gearbox. Weird. This message brought to you by the one, the only, the brilliant, the shiny, the great-hair-doo-ed one, the cool spectacled one, -=>>>>> ACE RIMMER <<<<=- "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!" "To confuse means: to make somebody unable to think clearly. Then how come China's greatest philosopher is called Confucius?" Herbert Ackermans. http://www1.tip.nl/~t666442/ http://www.robotech.org/trooper Remove no.spam.thank.you from my address when replying.

But the most spectacular is a tire blow! I've seen a replay of one at high speed, resulting in a spin and the car actually bends over to the side of the flat tire!!! Talking about realism.... JoH Visit HOF2.5, the ultimate GP2 keyboard hotlap competition http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/9326 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= When everything else failed, we can still become im- mortal by making an enormous blunder.... John Kenneth Galbraith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Arrrrrr, but have you got the car realism menu (in the drive options screen) set so that all the car failure option are OFF? if they are ON then you will encounter more breakdowns? d:~)) **Peter**