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I also found this at the times it's for SS R 5 II----
If I'm correct it's that one just before the T2 line. If you come out of the uphill chicane and go far enough to the right, you will feel a bump. That is actually a wall, but it is not drawn there. When you properly hit it, you think you hit the wall but when you look at the replay you actually didn't. So if you have a very light tap, it is easy not to notice while driving and then not see it on the replay either (because the wall isn't actually visible, only some small curbs leading up to where the wall was supposed to have been drawn, annoyingly enough). Rudi had the exact same problem. In his case, the sound gave it away - a slight disturbance in the revving engine - as well as the car tilting to the right a fraction of a second at the exact same moment.
There were several warnings about invisible walls in the rules, otherwise I'm sure they would have said ok who cares it's PD's fault not yours. There are a few other spots like that around the track too, like on the inside of the hairpin curb and a really tiny one on the inside of the tunnel.
this is the post I was thinking of when I said I had heard of invisible walls before
If I'm correct it's that one just before the T2 line. If you come out of the uphill chicane and go far enough to the right, you will feel a bump. That is actually a wall, but it is not drawn there. When you properly hit it, you think you hit the wall but when you look at the replay you actually didn't. So if you have a very light tap, it is easy not to notice while driving and then not see it on the replay either (because the wall isn't actually visible, only some small curbs leading up to where the wall was supposed to have been drawn, annoyingly enough). Rudi had the exact same problem. In his case, the sound gave it away - a slight disturbance in the revving engine - as well as the car tilting to the right a fraction of a second at the exact same moment.
There were several warnings about invisible walls in the rules, otherwise I'm sure they would have said ok who cares it's PD's fault not yours. There are a few other spots like that around the track too, like on the inside of the hairpin curb and a really tiny one on the inside of the tunnel.
this is the post I was thinking of when I said I had heard of invisible walls before