Talladega Qualifying (v1.2) Am I nuts?

Ok, so I'm running NASCAR Racing v1.2 and I qualified at Talladega with the opponent strength set to 92%. My car is the #83 Pepsi Ford Thunderbird. Below is the starting grid. What is wrong with this picture? Anybody notice that I'm FASTER than Bill Elliott? Then why in the heck am I starting at the rear! I have posted this problem on Papyrus' BBS (Publicly). I'm no math Wizard, but shouldn't I have the pole? [Cut Here] Pos Car Driver Speed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 #94 Bill Elliott 176.919 2 #17 Darrell Waltrip 176.909 3 #21 Morgan Shepherd 176.838 4 #3 Dale Earnhardt 176.777 5 #6 Mark Martin 176.658 6 #24 Jeff Gordon 176.652 7 #2 Rusty Wallace 176.344 8 #42 Kyle Petty 176.089 9 #5 Terry Labonte 175.942 10 #10 Ricky Rudd 175.939 11 #8 Jeff Burton 175.831 12 #28 Dale Jarrett 175.571 13 #75 Todd Bodine 175.441 14 #18 Bobby Labonte 175.422 15 #37 John Andretti 175.419 16 #30 Michael Waltrip 175.343 17 #7 Geoff Bodine 175.334 18 #1 Rick Mast 175.292 19 #4 Sterling Marlin 174.980 20 #16 Ted Musgrave 174.980 21 #9 Lake Speed 174.977 22 #23 Jimmy Spencer 174.883 23 #25 Ken Schrader 174.883 24 #87 Joe Nemechek 174.513 25 #11 Brett Bodine 174.491 26 #12 Derrike Cope 174.406 27 #33 Robert Pressley 173.976 28 #15 Dick Trickle 173.882 29 #43 Bobby Hamilton 173.677 30 #40 Greg Sacks 173.646 31 #31 Ward Burton 173.458 32 #41 Ricky Craven 173.420 33 #26 Steve Kinser 173.173 34 #29 Steve Grissom 173.078 35 #98 Jeremy Mayfield 172.128 36 #27 Loy Allen, Jr. 171.688 37 #90 Mike Wallace 171.582 38 #71 Dave Marcis 171.552 39 #83 Pete Fanning 181.694 -- Pete Fanning WWW: [link lost in import: /~pfanning]

You are not completing the TWO qualifying laps that you get at Talledega. All the other tracks you only get one but because of Talledega's speed you need the extra lap. Just keep racing until you see the checkered flag. This also happened to me: drove me nuts!!!

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> Ok, so I'm running NASCAR Racing v1.2 and I qualified at Talladega > with the opponent strength set to 92%. My car is the #83 Pepsi Ford > Thunderbird. Below is the starting grid. What is wrong with this > picture? > Anybody notice that I'm FASTER than Bill Elliott? Then why in the > heck am I starting at the rear! > I have posted this problem on Papyrus' BBS (Publicly). > I'm no math Wizard, but shouldn't I have the pole?

Someone mentioned this "bug" before - If you speed in the pits on qualifying, you automatically get bumped to the back of the grid.

: > : > Anybody notice that I'm FASTER than Bill Elliott? Then why in the : > heck am I starting at the rear! : > : > I'm no math Wizard, but shouldn't I have the pole? : > : Someone mentioned this "bug" before - If you speed in the pits on : qualifying, you automatically get bumped to the back of the grid. Not in my copy. I do it all the time in order to heat the tires as fast as fast as possible. -- ************************************************************************* Kris Kolman University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering ************************************************************************* "Prepare Warp Speed ... Standby Transport Drive" Lt (jg) Anthony Brown CEO USS SARACEN NCC-1492 Lt (jg) Rick Marcus CEO STARBASE EPSILON Subcommander Talvis tr'Khevill Romulan Liason STARBASE DS12 ************************************************************************* "Any of you boys see an aircraft carrier around here?" Kris "Sabre" Kolman *************************************************************************

Same thing happened to me, I checked the standings after Qualifying and noticed I was last when I qualified way ahead of the first car. The standings didn' t change during warmup, BUT when I started the race I ended up in pole position. It all seemed to work out, only I had to wait until the race.

[snip] >> Anybody notice that I'm FASTER than Bill Elliott? Then why in the >> heck am I starting at the rear! >Someone mentioned this "bug" before - If you speed in the pits on >qualifying, you automatically get bumped to the back of the grid. Someone mentioned THIS before as well. I speed in the pits when I qualify all the time with no retribution. The magic word here is Talladega. Are you (Pete) making sure you run both laps in qualifying? Running 1 qual lap at Tal = Starting 42d. - Chris Lund

Betcha a dollar to a donut you didn't compete the entire qualifying run. You have to run the whole distance to get any credit, apparently.

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>Ok, so I'm running NASCAR Racing v1.2 and I qualified at Talladega >with the opponent strength set to 92%. My car is the #83 Pepsi Ford >Thunderbird. Below is the starting grid. What is wrong with this picture? >Anybody notice that I'm FASTER than Bill Elliott? Then why in the >heck am I starting at the rear! >I have posted this problem on Papyrus' BBS (Publicly). >I'm no math Wizard, but shouldn't I have the pole? >[Cut Here] > Pos Car Driver Speed >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 #94 Bill Elliott 176.919 >... > 39 #83 Pete Fanning 181.694

-- Brian Wong Product Marketing Engineering

I just bought the game and have been plaing it all weekend. I had the same problem, until I figured out that you need to run three laps for the qualifying round. Pat Mizell

>Subject: Re: Talladega Qualifying (v1.2) Am I nuts? >Date: 10 Apr 1995 00:46:00 GMT >Betcha a dollar to a donut you didn't compete the entire qualifying run. >You have to run the whole distance to get any credit, apparently. I second that bet. Ralf ____ __ ___ __ ____ __ _\ \ /(__)\ | ( /(__)\ )( /(__)\ http://www.webcom.com/~sabata/

Pete, 1) You have to run three laps around Talladega to complete a successful run (your warmup lap from the pits and 2 green laps). 2) I think(and I'm not TOTALLY sure about this) you have to complete the run on your first attempt. It might be just like real 'Cup qualifying. If you don't make the show on the first try, you don't get a shot at the front. Try running 3 good laps around the track on your first try and see if that helps. Julio C. Chacon, Jr. Officially Sanctioned Race Fanatic P.S. -- Anybody in this group race 1/10th scale electric or gas road cars? Then I'll see you in rec.models.rc!!