Talk:Ride The Storm/@comment-27239273-20151220133218/@comment-26715739-20151221091328

Re time shown when you quit the race... It is only ever an "estimated time".

For cars that have not completed the race RR3 basically uses:

1/proportion of track completed * number of laps.

But this means that it is possible for it to show a quicker finishing time than they will actually get if you raced them, as well as a slower one.

This is most easily seen in NASCAR when you crash into (and wreck) the other cars.

So for example on Le Mans, think about the average speed if you quit when the fastest car is just entering the Porsche curves, versus when it has just reached the end of Mulsanne. These are going to be very different figures.

It also explains why you can just sneak over the line ahead of another car (a photo finish on the replay), and yet the final time says that they're way behind.

If the finish line is on a straight then their actual speed will be much higher than their average speed - but RR3 has used their average speed to extrapolate what it will take them to go those last few yards, not their actual speed.

So if you're managing the bots, you need to make sure you're quitting such that the lead car is at either the same spot on the track each time (or at exactly the same "elapsed time"), so that you get a real view on whether the times are going down or not. Very minor variations in track position or time can have a significant knock-on effect on the estimated time that is shown.