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Looks like some new issues post patch; complaints are popping up about the> pace car and stop/go penalties. Only had time for one online go so far at> Homestead, but had the latter happen. Full pace lap and flags were on in> the race I joined, and as usual, the bozo's were bumping each other on the> pace lap. Nothing big, but the guy in front of me pulls off heading out > of> T2 (with no visible damage), but doesn't exit the race; he just noodles> along slowly. Spotter yells at me to slow down and get behind him and I > try> to, although the rest of the pack is pulling away. Before I even get to > T3,> I get the call that I've gotten a stop/go penalty, followed a couple of> seconds later by the spotter telling me to catch up and get behind a> different car; the one who was in front of the guy who slowed up (who I> would have slotted in behind to begin with). So I catch back up, slot in> and the race goes green. We do 2 laps before a yellow comes out. I see a> bunch of guys pitting and wonder why. Too early for tires or fuel and > there> hadn't been that big a wreck. I'm guessing they got stop/go's too. > Anyway,> I stay out, we go green and the next lap I get DQ'ed for not obeying the> stop/go. Great; the only way I could have gotten behind the guy who > pulled> out of line on the pace lap was to put it in reverse. Forgot to look and> see what happened to him...>

I was going backwards anyway, being stuck with the default rookie setup.> Hadn't raced at Homestead before so I didn't have the correct race setup> loaded in a race session, was in the garage trying to load a decent setup > it> when I got dropped into the car to start the pace lap. That aspect of> choosing setups is very poor compared to NR2003, where you can lock in > your> Qual & Race setups from one screen.>

Speaking of setups, the supposed diff lock fix in the patch is simply the> change to the power side setting in the default setup files that everyone> was already doing, and not in the HDV file. So you can still override it> and run an open diff by manually editing the setup files.>

No doubt this patch solved some problems, but it's gonna take a few more > at> this rate.>

I guess we call this the "Rules" patch. Maybe there will be an acutal > "FIX" patch eventually.>

Hehe ­>

-Larry>

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Mitch>

"Larry" <none@none.com> wrote in message > news:BWR8e.16354$B9­3.11675@lakeread06..­.>> And what a FINE patch it is.>>