Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20180911114503/@comment-159.205.253.197-20180911192627

RandyMc wrote: 199.19.250.91 wrote: I think that the failure mode for off-track has and always will be "two tires on the same axle off the track simultaneously". That can't be it. I've done lots of slides and had the entire rear end of the car off, and wasn't DQ'd. I was using chase view for a while, and while trying to get used to it, did some very sloppy driving. I was amazed at how much of the car I could get off track without DQ. Yes, it's not about axes or even the number of wheels (unless it's all 4, obv). On-track is mostly consistent with tarmac and you need just a bit of one wheel on it to be ok in general. However, on some tracks the map doesn't square with the tarmac. On Nurburgring, the green/grey area on pretty much every turn is actually on-track, so you can leave the tarmac completely and be in the clear. The same happens (to a lesser extent) on other tracks, LM being the most notorious (on race days, that area is cordoned off with posts (like the first turn at NBR).

That's not to say there isn't some FM magic going on. In SEs, off-track can sometimes include the white edge of the tarmac, other times it doesn't register even when you cut a chicane.