Nascar 2003 can't clear black flag

I was racing in an online league that just started up the other day. Relative novices mostly. One guy got a black flag for speeding on pit road and couldn't clear it. Finally he was DQ'd even though he kept coming in over and over again. Anyone know why that might be happening? Another guy said it was probably because he was stopping in the wrong place. He kept stopping in his pit and the guy said he had to stop right behind the line next to the pace car to clear the flag. Is that correct or does anyone else have any idea why it might happen? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There would be a lot more civility in this world if people didn't take that as an invitation to walk all over you" - (Calvin and Hobbes)

Was this Watkins Glen? I had the same thing happen to me, constant black flag for speeding even when I put it in first and slowed to about 10mph. Wayne Templin "EGK" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I was racing in an online league that just started up the other day. > Relative novices mostly. One guy got a black flag for speeding on pitroad > and couldn't clear it. Finally he was DQ'd even though he kept coming in > over and over again. Anyone know why that might be happening? Anotherguy > said it was probably because he was stopping in the wrong place. He kept > stopping in his pit and the guy said he had to stop right behind the line > next to the pace car to clear the flag. Is that correct or does anyoneelse > have any idea why it might happen? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "There would be a lot more civility in this world if people > didn't take that as an invitation to walk all over you" > - (Calvin and Hobbes)

not all penalties are stop and go's, he probably had to drive through the pits without stopping. Sean "EGK" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I was racing in an online league that just started up the other day. > Relative novices mostly. One guy got a black flag for speeding on pitroad > and couldn't clear it. Finally he was DQ'd even though he kept coming in > over and over again. Anyone know why that might be happening? Anotherguy > said it was probably because he was stopping in the wrong place. He kept > stopping in his pit and the guy said he had to stop right behind the line > next to the pace car to clear the flag. Is that correct or does anyoneelse > have any idea why it might happen? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "There would be a lot more civility in this world if people > didn't take that as an invitation to walk all over you" > - (Calvin and Hobbes)

No, it was at Rockingham. I've had it happen playing offline on various tracks so try to stay well under the speed limit online. The guy it happened to kept going around and round and stopping in the pit each time and it would still say he hadn't served the penalty. Finally DQ'd him. On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:00:47 GMT, "Wayne Templin" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Was this Watkins Glen? I had the same thing happen to me, constant black >flag for speeding even when I put it in first and slowed to about 10mph. > >Wayne Templin > >"EGK" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> I was racing in an online league that just started up the other day. >> Relative novices mostly. One guy got a black flag for speeding on pit >road >> and couldn't clear it. Finally he was DQ'd even though he kept coming in >> over and over again. Anyone know why that might be happening? Another >guy >> said it was probably because he was stopping in the wrong place. He kept >> stopping in his pit and the guy said he had to stop right behind the line >> next to the pace car to clear the flag. Is that correct or does anyone >else >> have any idea why it might happen? >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... > No, it was at Rockingham. I've had it happen playing offline on various > tracks so try to stay well under the speed limit online. The guy it > happened to kept going around and round and stopping in the pit each time > and it would still say he hadn't served the penalty. Finally DQ'd him. > > He has to listen to his spotter. The spotter will tell him exactly one time how to clear the black flag. It's either going to be a drive-through or a stop-n-go. If you don't do the one the sim told you to do, it won't clear. It also won't clear under caution. It also won't clear until AFTER you take the green on a restart (meaning, you have to make a lap under green before you can clear it).

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:39:28 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>In article <[email hidden]>, >[email hidden] says... >> No, it was at Rockingham. I've had it happen playing offline on various >> tracks so try to stay well under the speed limit online. The guy it >> happened to kept going around and round and stopping in the pit each time >> and it would still say he hadn't served the penalty. Finally DQ'd him. >> >> > >He has to listen to his spotter. The spotter will tell him exactly >one time how to clear the black flag. It's either going to be a >drive-through or a stop-n-go. If you don't do the one the sim told >you to do, it won't clear. > >It also won't clear under caution. > >It also won't clear until AFTER you take the green on a restart >(meaning, you have to make a lap under green before you can clear >it).

Yup, I think you're correct. I think he missed what the spotter was saying. Speeding is usually a drive through penalty and he kept stopping instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There would be a lot more civility in this world if people didn't take that as an invitation to walk all over you" - (Calvin and Hobbes)

He probably got a drive-through, not a stop & go. If you stop during a drive-through it will not count. Common mistake... -Larry "EGK" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I was racing in an online league that just started up the other day. > Relative novices mostly. One guy got a black flag for speeding on pitroad > and couldn't clear it. Finally he was DQ'd even though he kept coming in > over and over again. Anyone know why that might be happening? Anotherguy > said it was probably because he was stopping in the wrong place. He kept > stopping in his pit and the guy said he had to stop right behind the line > next to the pace car to clear the flag. Is that correct or does anyoneelse > have any idea why it might happen? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "There would be a lot more civility in this world if people > didn't take that as an invitation to walk all over you" > - (Calvin and Hobbes)

"John Simmons" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>, > [email hidden] says... > > No, it was at Rockingham. I've had it happen playing offline on various > > tracks so try to stay well under the speed limit online. The guy it > > happened to kept going around and round and stopping in the pit eachtime

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> > and it would still say he hadn't served the penalty. Finally DQ'd him. > > > > > > He has to listen to his spotter. The spotter will tell him exactly > one time how to clear the black flag. It's either going to be a > drive-through or a stop-n-go. If you don't do the one the sim told > you to do, it won't clear. > > It also won't clear under caution. > > It also won't clear until AFTER you take the green on a restart > (meaning, you have to make a lap under green before you can clear > it).

Amen. I got a BS BF for passing on a restart once at Darlington (guys in front of me wrecked out to the wall and I had to avoid to the inside) and we could not get a clean restart after several attempts. The game kept up with my lap count and since we couldn't get a good restart, all the yellow laps added up to me getting DQ'd, never having had the chance to take a green, and the field complete a entire lap UNDER green in which I could pit and clear the BF. Everytime I would get to T3 after a restart and start down to the apron, ANOTHER yellow would fly. That's one of the bugs I wish they could fix. Don't DQ a guy until he has had a legitmate chance to clear a BF. Didn't they put that command back in for admins this go round tho? I argued about them deleting the ability to clear BFs as an admin from N4 forward. I thought they had gotten that fixed, again, in 2003 back to like it was in N3 where admins could throw and clear BFs and YFs.

In article <8ir0b.2840$[email hidden]>, "SimRacer" <[email hidden]> writes: >That's one of the bugs I wish they could fix. Don't DQ a guy until he has >had a legitmate chance to clear a BF. Didn't they put that command back in >for admins this go round tho? I argued about them deleting the ability to >clear BFs as an admin from N4 forward. I thought they had gotten that fixed, >again, in 2003 back to like it was in N3 where admins could throw and clear >BFs and YFs. Yeah, the ability for the admin to clear a BF is available. I don't know the command offhand, though... -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.