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This has also bugged me (no pun intended) for quite a while, but in a different way. Personally I found 2 glitches, all by accident.

No. 1, at Müllenbaschleife endurance. This was due to the RSR laps TC challenge. If you travel beyond the barrier at the end of the straight, proceed very slowly and try to follow the asphalt path past it. You will see the distance go down slightly first and suddenly jump up by ~0.15 km. Very weird. Found it because usually the timer runs out around that section, so one time I decided to “explore” what’s beyond it.

No. 2, at Le Mans distance TC. I used the 4 laps High-Tech Legends a while back, and after getting a lead of over 2 km by the second lap, I started zigzagging on the straights, no off track at all, probably going at no faster than 100 km/h and curving side to side as much as I can. Partially because I was bored due to the huge lead, partially because I believe it would increase my in the same amount of time. Boy was I wrong.

At the end, it added 54.5 km to my score. 13.63 km * 4 = 54.52 km. Wtf? I thought it was a glitch, so a few hours later I tried the same thing again. Didn’t change. The next ones all followed the same pattern.

 My conclusion/hypothesis/theory : FM is just plain lousy and lazy at counting distance, not by how much the car actually travelled but by how many laps it ran. It all makes sense (to me) since at the Le Mans distance challenge nothing other than Cup races counts the distance towards my score, even though the Le Mans races all have the TC banner on the event… I believe this problem, although not very noticeable like some others, is way overdue and it angers/surprises/saddens me that FM can’t even implement a real distance counter…

However, I do not know how much this relates to the total distance travelled, though I expect it to be similar, if not the same as it would be hard to believe that FM has separate mechanics counting TC distance and personal distance… :/