has this ever happened to you?

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In an iLink game, using Toyota SuperAutoBacs MR-Ss for 2 laps around Complex String, daan beat me by 0.002s.
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I know this is a little off topic but where did you guys get the iLink hub for that race (I assume there was more than 2 of you) My freid and I found the cables but we could never find the hub and we really want to try 4 to 6 person races.

Sorry bout changing the topic a little guys.
 
Don't ask me. Ask Wastegate. T'was he who organised the 14-man (and one nonparticipating woman) iLink. :D
 
TwinTurboJay
also, weird, I spun around and went through the finish line exactly backwards, ( no angle ) and it finished me in 6th place, even though I lapped that bastards
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Can't say I've heard of this ever happening before. Got a replay of it or something? :crazy:
 
on the type r meeting. toyko, i span my NSX (type r) out for fun while going over the finish line. I prcatially parked on it, it came up with 6th place insed of first, pushed start and exited when the first times came up. But i should have still got first place, this has only happened once to me.
 
Time to resurrect this thread. I just had an AI Oreca Viper do a 1:28 at Grand Valley Speedway I (last race of GT world championship amateur), after it previously in the same race had been doing no faster than 1:49s. My fastest lap in my Pennzoil Nismo was 1:47. At the end of 3 of 5 laps, it was about 3 seconds behind me, and it pitted for tyres. 'Ah, that's this race in the bag.' Or so I thought! Exactly 1 lap later, the Viper had closed all of the 25 second gap, and it was breathing down my neck on fresh tyres! :nervous:

Fortunately, the boost stopped when it caught me, but it was still on fresh tyres, and my medium slicks were turning orange, literally. In the end I won, by taking the inside lines, and by ramming him into the pitlane entry :trouble: as he pulled alongside me down the main straight. But I was shaken :scared:

A 1:28, and at the same time, it lost about 5 seconds because it was driving down the pitlane as it started the lap. That's very close to F1 car speed, in a frickin Oreca Viper! All because of some weird boost the computer car gets when it's behind you?
 
I've beaten myself by 0.01 seconds on a Complex String I did in two different cars. But never lost a race by 0.000
 
ultrabeat
I've beaten myself
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Filthy animal.

On-topic, if you match your ghost time, to the thousandth, you're classed as beind behind it (+0.000) and the ghost isn't updated to the "new" equal time's ghost.
 
What about the 25-second per lap speed boost that AI cars get when they are behind you? I assume this is common knowledge? Nobody seems that surprised.
 
No, no-one's surprised.

Have a crack at my original "Worst Car Wins" race. It's never closed, so there's a topic in the OLR forum about it. It becomes staggeringly apparent with the very slow cars.

If you were to drive the Sunday Cup/Midfield race normally, you'd find the AI finished in about 3'30. If you went banzai with an F1 car, you'd see them finishing nearer to three minutes. Drive in the opposite direction for a lap, then go absolutely mental trying to catch them before they finish and you'll see times nearer to SIX minutes.

The AI gets a performance-related power boost. The further behind they are - to an unknown limit - the quicker they can go. The further ahead they are, the slower they go. Known, documented, laughed at, exploited. :D
 

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