Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-170.52.87.61-20180524022124/@comment-106.202.64.255-20180524144958

Tombstone7 wrote:

It's important to differentiate between off-track and crashing as each has different immediate effects.The immediate effect of off-track is to increase the rate at which wear and tear occurs, so driving off-track for a lap will use more service bars than a clean lap. However, this does not take effect until after the race - when one sees the service bar count down screen. So it only affects the next race, and then only if the bars are in the red, or zero...

...I must say I've never noticed a performance downgrade following excessive off-track driving. Incorrect. Going off track affects performance on the same race itself. The most noticeable is the top speed. At Hockenheimring, I can hit 300kph before Turn 2 if I take a clean run through Nordkurve on Lap 1 but if go off track at every corner henceforth during the lap (no crashing) and the most I can take the same section in Lap 2 is around 280-285kph. I am not very sure what you are noticing. Try it out.

Tombstone7 wrote:

Crashing in such a way to cause body damage will slow the car during the race, i.e. it has an immediate effect on performance, and is repaired during the post-race R$ reward screen. It doesn't affect service bars per se, unless of course the crash is as a result of running off track in to a barrier, but it's the off track bit that relates to service bars. You sir, have no idea of what you're talking/typing about. I have encountered this a million times and just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating all the million times, I ran Hockeheimring (again) with the Testarossa (which is FU'd) and rammed behind the 16th place bot (who crashed into 15th & just stopped) just before approaching Nordkurve jamming myself between 17th & 18th place. All 4 of us (16th in front, one to the left, one to the right, me in the dead center) stopped in the middle of the corner hence there was no off track. I quit the race & lo and behold, 1 service bar gone. Poof!