Silverstone Pit cheating

[DiggerHawk]

It is possible due to the way the pit lane works at Silverstone that a car can come in to the pits and gain positions or set a fastest lap.
This is caused by the pitlane short cutting the chicane at the end of the lap and the pitlane speed limit being too fast.
In this video you can see that the AI car was in fourth place before pitting on the last lap but ended up winning the race due to their pit box being after the finish line. Presumably this could happen in real life so the pit lane speed limit has to be set accordingly.

This example is using the International layout but I guess the same can be said for the GP layout.

 

[Rui Santos]

And some people say AI is bad in rf2

 

[ebeninca]

It reminds me the Donnington F1 GP from 1993, when Senna set the fastest lap on pit lane... ahahhaah... at that time there was no speed limit at the pit.

They changed the pit entrance after that.

I don't know if it's possible to change offline, but definitely in online servers is possible to define the pit speed limit as you wish.

 

[Deleted member 58016]

Hasn't Schumacher won a race in pit lane in Silverstone, I think back in the late 90ies because he got a penalty and got three rounds to serve it; last one he could come in was also the last one of the race and as his pit was behind the finishing line he won the race ... I think there were some rumors after that and so it was decided that you cannot serve a penalty in the races last round or so? ;-)

Seems Silverstone is always good for a surprise ;-)

 

[David O'Reilly]

Presumably this could happen in real life so the pit lane speed limit has to be set accordingly.

I cant speak for all levels of racing but in BRSCC races you only count as a finisher if you take the chequered flag on track. You can't finish in pit lane (I did it at Silverstone in May as I ran low on fuel and was shown as DNF)

 

[Deleted member 58016]

This is a link to a (german) article according the winning in pit lane ... https://www.sport.de/news/ne3706338...rioser-sieg-in-der-boxengasse-in-silverstone/

But as I said, I think the rules have been changed after that incident.

 

[DiggerHawk]

I checked the Log analyzer for the race and the car pitted because it was low on fuel, although it still had enough to finish in reality but you all know rF2's AI logic sometimes.

I remember the Schumacher incident and being rather annoyed by it at the time, not a Schumacher fan.

 

[Deleted member 58016]

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I remember the Schumacher incident and being rather annoyed by it at the time, not a Schumacher fan.

Same here ... both. But there were a lot of other situations Ross managed to get out of without loosing :-/