My Comment on Crazy Lap Times

Here's something I don't get. If CPR is supposed to be the hyper-realistic sim that Microsoft claims, how the hell can people turn laps of 51 secs in Toronto, 1:01 in Laguna, 1:21 in Australia. Give me a break, there's no way that armchair Indy drivers ar 10 seconds better than the real thing per lap. !!!

Hi Clay, You bring up an interesting point. I believe the the lap times are achieved by: 1) Using RAIN tires on dry pavement. There is a flaw in the sim where this allows you to get better traction - this is wrong and is a fix is being investigated. 2) There isn't enough pain when going off the grass. In other words, if you go into the sand at Laguna or the grass at cleveland, it doesn't have a huge effect on your speed/control. A fix for this is also being investigated. Eric (CART Team) >Here's something I don't get. If CPR is supposed to be the >hyper-realistic sim that Microsoft claims, how the hell can people turn >laps of 51 secs in Toronto, 1:01 in Laguna, 1:21 in Australia. Give me a >break, there's no way that armchair Indy drivers ar 10 seconds better >than the real thing per lap. !!!

Hi Eric, I recently spoted another bug : lap times on pit board and in PI Ana. don't match. And I have some suggestions : It would be very nice if we could save PI data and replay for single hotlap. Sound in replay would be nice too. Is it possible to make replays (PI An.) from this version incompatibile with new version of CPR (after applying the patch) so we could avoid situations in hotlap competitions where some of the competitors would still use old version to achieve faster lap times with rain tyres. Djordje

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> Also, a sim has to be written to take into account that it is a > simulation, not the real thing. We aren't constrained by testing time, > risk of injury, etc. We can experiment going faster and faster until we > find ourselves crashing too often. CPR has a lot of good things going for > it, but it does seem almost a little "naive" (not the right word but I > can't think of a better one atm) in that it is written to match the > inputs of real life driving rather than sim driving. > Cheers, > Richard

This last paragraph hits the nail right on the head. Well put.