Yeah I'm a little pissed off having just DNF'd the E30 Vara race. But I had practiced earlier in the day online, nobody had joined so it was just myself for about 40 mins - 1 hour. All was good, no issues, no hickups, peachy.
So come time to actually do the qual and practice and I get CTD's (crash to desktop) with a nice C++ runtime error. I'm WTF? So I go back in and some folks look like they're in a chevy, but this is E30 only??
By my 3rd CTD someone mentioned something about a skins file for Race07. So the bulb goes on, hmmm...it was fine with just myself online (no other cars with skins joined) and then NOT fine when folks with skins start joining come practice/qual/race. So I head off to download the Race07 skins file, install to the directory per example, and all "appears" to be good as I get back in with 1 min to spare.
Put in a good qual lap, got [... more]
I've successfully blown up 3 times now while either leading the race or in 2nd place.
How can I prevent it? Reduce rev limit 100 or 200 RPM?
Engine temps are fine when I blow up so it's not a cooling issue -- I usually increase ducts for race.
Any hints are most welcome.
As of late, at every single "official" event I'm getting hit at least 3-5 times per event. Now I don't consider side to side contact as a big deal, that's racin'. And I don't consider someone that hit me who got hit by someone else as an issue. I also don't consider contact during a big multi-car pile up as an issue (so long as one didn't start the pile up). In other words, I'm pretty forgiving about contact. About the only contact issues I have is when someone hits you from behind or anywhere in the rear quater section.
But what I'm finding is that the faster drivers are the ones most likely to initiate this type of race ending contact. Sure there are cases where lappers might do the same, but those are far less frequent than the faster folks.
I can understand mistakes - stuff happens, it's not intentional. Even the shorter sprint racers where one needs to [... more]
