How do race rejoins work?

Can anyone help me getting rejoins working during a race?

I set Race Rejoin="2" in multiplayer.ini and was able to rejoin without geting the "pending an open session" message, but my "race" button is still greyed out

Is there anything special to do as a client?

Here is how I tried to rejoin:

1. start the race
2. kill the rF2 process using task manager
3. restart rF2 and select the server in the lobby
4. select the same car as before
5. click join

 

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Maybe this is too specific

So is there anyone that ever had race rejoins working or is this feature not really implemented yet?

 

Never tried it, but heard about the greyed out race button from others, would like to know if this is server or client related.

Did you join without "spectate on" ?

 

Looks like it won't work at the moment as we can't set it to 0.

 

@WiZPER yes spectator was off (even tried it with on )

@Woodee That might be it - however "Closed Race Sessions" was set to "1" and the game still recognized (in the chat) that I wasn't "pending an open session" but rather did a rejoin

 

I have seen on the ISI servers and my own that while racing you can see the joiners that are allowed to spectate while the race is still going with the multiple "pending open session" messages.

I know a few people have successfully done driver swaps I am guessing even if we set it to 0 for completely open it would do nothing

 

Prior to Build 660, they worked. Not had any luck at all with Build 660 though.
http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/19490-Muliplayer-rejoin-capability-in-Build-660

Here's the reference we posted for our drivers (which did work before 660 for us).
http://simhqmotorsports.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3706687/

Driver swaps are a different function than race rejoin.
http://simhqmotorsports.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3693068/

And join as a spectator is a part of the function to do a driver swap,
but it can be used just to watch a race in progress too.