Talk:'18 Season Camry Championship/@comment-27416413-20180223142036/@comment-27123099-20180223194757

Yeah, a while back they changed it so you could only disable about half the cars. When NASCAR was first released, you could crash and disable nearly all of them.

The other change they made is that now the disabled cars move off to the side of the track (as much as possible anyhow). Try to push one around after they start smoking, they are very adamant about going off-track lol. Previously, they'd just sit in the middle of the track or wherever and would cause all the other cars to either slam into them (this AI habit has also been reduced), or slow and go around them. On occasions, there'd be a few cars stuck on what we called "Zombie Mode" where they'd start driving again, but in reverse and at about 100mph. They'd slam into other bots and cause crashes too. All these things made it such that on longer races (mostly on Richmond, but on Indy and sometimes Daytona too), you could turn around at the start of the race, drive head on into the pack, disable several cars, repeat that a few times, then turn back around and drive the rest of the race, dodging crashes and passing bots and end up winning the race, even with a few laps in reverse at the beginning.

Sadly, the physics and AI have been changed quite a bit since then and the effect is much less pronounced and effective as it was initially.