Sudden loss of Power ????

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I am driving my FGT around the Indy track and now and then I seem to lose power for a few seconds then it returns, I dont take my finger off the accelarator button but go from 234 MPH down to 180 MPH . Has anyone else had this ????
 
Thats when its reaching its max speed...same thing happens to me at 235mph except it only does down to 221mph...not any lower...have you tried changing the oil? or overhauling your engine?
 
Its usually on a straight and just seems to die on me then starts up again, nothing to do with oil change etc as only happens now and then in a race
 
I have noticed this to, happens very rarely for me in the middle of a drift, throttle dies for a split second, sorta like right after you pull the handbrake where the engine stalls. Doesn't happen enough that I care, but I have noticed it.
 
I may be wrong but I think you're hitting max speed. Check your transmission settings in the Settings menu and review the max speed of your car. Because of aerodynamics, you usually get about 15-30 km/h slower than what the tranny is saying.

All cars have sightly different reactions to hitting the rev limiter. For example, the beginner Top Gear event in the Kubelwagen (sp?): you hit rev limiter then you get a slow descent in speed. Nascars just bounce of the rev limiter and you only lose 3-4 km/h.

If you're at max speed a good strategy to maintain it is to use about 80% throttle on the straights. You want to keep your speed stable to avoid the rev limiter reaction.
 
An oldish thread, I know - but since the last update (or so it seems), I've been noticing this happen to me a couple of times a day too.

The power-fade seems to come as I exit corners - the engine almost dies flat on me and even dropping a few gears does nothing much - it's like the car is getting indigestion...most odd.

An example is the Calsonic GT-R Super GT on the Nürburgring GT track after the Dunlop-Kehre corner. I'm on track, not overcooking it and then it just...dies. It didn't recover until after the Schumacher-S so I lost a good few seconds there.

I also had my Scuderia die out in a similar fashion on the Nürburgring proper - right before the finish line. Both of these cars haven't had an engine tuning in a while though, so maybe that's it.

Any more suggestions?
 
sounds like the pad is running out of battery, or some other bluetooth device is messing the pad connection up.. I never had it happen on gt5, but i have had the same kind of thing on cod4! And it was my phone bluetooth!
 

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