BTW, we talked about this in the Thursday's race thread, but for anyone who's not aware - there's apparently a bug regarding track boundaries at Mantorp in the long sweeping right hand corner at the end of the back straight that can cause your lap timer not reset when you start a new lap, effectively placing you a full lap behind everyone else.
What's going on is there's a sector split in that corner somewhere around where I've placed the yellow line in the picture above. But the thing is, the sector split does not extend too far on the grass on the inside of the corner - it actually ends quite close to the track there. And if you happen to end up on the grass there somewhere in the area I've marked red, you can simply drive around the split detection area and never trigger it. And the way the game apparently works is that until you trigger the split it expects you to, it simply ignores you triggering any other splits and just keeps the timer going, including if you start a new lap in the meantime. It is simply still waiting for you to drive through that split, even if you're now in a completely different section of the track.
I've spent some time testing it tonight to see how large the area of no split detection is and honestly, it's surprisingly large. The red area in the image above is only meant to illustrate the point, not serve as an exact map, but to be honest, it's not that far off. Also, there really is no other way to reset your lap timer but to drive through the split point you've missed there - I've been able to do several laps without the lap timer resetting just by driving on the inside grass of this corner.
The good news is that as soon as you drive through the missed split, you're fine. This basically means that if you happen to end up on the grass on the inside of this corner before triggering the sector split, you're better off just looping back and driving through the corner again, rather than continuing as you'd normally do and risking falling a lap behind everyone else. Yes, it will cost you time, but still much less than a full lap time's worth.
So bear that in mind during the race. I've found out about this bug the hard way on Thursday and it was not fun.
What's going on is there's a sector split in that corner somewhere around where I've placed the yellow line in the picture above. But the thing is, the sector split does not extend too far on the grass on the inside of the corner - it actually ends quite close to the track there. And if you happen to end up on the grass there somewhere in the area I've marked red, you can simply drive around the split detection area and never trigger it. And the way the game apparently works is that until you trigger the split it expects you to, it simply ignores you triggering any other splits and just keeps the timer going, including if you start a new lap in the meantime. It is simply still waiting for you to drive through that split, even if you're now in a completely different section of the track.
I've spent some time testing it tonight to see how large the area of no split detection is and honestly, it's surprisingly large. The red area in the image above is only meant to illustrate the point, not serve as an exact map, but to be honest, it's not that far off. Also, there really is no other way to reset your lap timer but to drive through the split point you've missed there - I've been able to do several laps without the lap timer resetting just by driving on the inside grass of this corner.
The good news is that as soon as you drive through the missed split, you're fine. This basically means that if you happen to end up on the grass on the inside of this corner before triggering the sector split, you're better off just looping back and driving through the corner again, rather than continuing as you'd normally do and risking falling a lap behind everyone else. Yes, it will cost you time, but still much less than a full lap time's worth.
So bear that in mind during the race. I've found out about this bug the hard way on Thursday and it was not fun.
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