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First i would like to say thanks for posting the feature event video. I thought starting a Q+A would help myself and other NEWCOMERS to the racing format, and ins and outs for future races. I will start by asking questions on game settings when at a race. 1st, Back in the early days of dtr2 i thought most video , alpha, crowd noice, car tags where always best to be turned DOWN OR OFF, cause it would slow your connection speed, Thus, RAISE "PING". Is that NOT a factor anymore, with better connections nowdays? And what is a acceptable amount of "PING" befor being ask to reboot or leave? I seen crowd, which meens "ALPHA" was ON, Heard crowd noice, so it was ON, And CAR TAGS, which i knew from past that has always been on for "ID". 2nd Early in the race say lap 20 or so, B45 Was lapped, Wanted to here his version of WHY. 3rd, At the end of video 1 the leaders collect a lap car, happen so fast i could not tell if 1st and 2nd got into each other, or a lap car? Which was it? 4th, After that , There is a RESTART, Did the game DO THAT ? Or was it communicated thru VENTRILLO amongst the drivers TO RESTART? B 18 takes lead bout 30 or so laps in, and margin of victory is still very close between 1st and 2nd. I am asking them, Did " TIRE WEAR " play a factor in this race? TIRE WEAR is set "ON", right? And if i can ask them, did either of them go with anything other than "SOFTEST TIRES" ON ALL 4 CORNERS OF CAR? From what i seen it was a heck of a race by all, Only 3 cars did not finish on LEAD LAP, CONGRATS, Very tight field , FOR SURE. This i hope will start a conversation on here from FEATURE Drivers, TIRES and did they show wear, and how BAD, or NOT. TIRE COMPOUND? SOFT MED OR HARD, AND IF ONLY ON RIGHT SIDE. THX, ANY AND ALL COMENTS FROM YOU DRIVERS WILL BE GLADLY ACCEPTED. GREAT JOB GUYS !!!! oh, at end of race the last car shown is Shock, The whole right side looks like you touched nothing the whole race, DAMAGE IS ON SIMULATION, RIGHT??

1. It's not a factor. And we make some beautiful tracks, so we want Alpha and Video settings maxed out so people can see them when they race because we take pride in the tracks . Doesn't seem to raise ping at all, if anything if you have a really old computer it might make your frame rate choppy.

2. It doesn't matter if you saw the crowd or heard the crowd noise. That just means in your game settings you have both those turned on. The guy's replay (BLS_18) may not have had either of those on, but his replay would match your computers settings when you watched it.

3. He was lapped because he was waiting up to wreck two guys apparently who didn't really do anything to him. Therefore he has been banned from VLR for AT LEAST the rest of this season for trying to interfere with the race.

4. I'm not sure what happened up front, but there was a restart because a car froze (Doit 67) on lap 29 or so. It was communicated on Ventrilo and also communicated by me driving my car backwards and crashing everyone lol.

5. Tire wear didn't, or shouldn't have played a factor in this race. This is because of the chassis being Gen 5, and the wetness being 47 wet. Tire wear is set to on because it is faster than turning it off. I believe all ten cars likely had soft tires on. So yeah, the rest of the questions probably don't matter since tire wear didn't play a role. I did catch Superman a lot at the end (S) but not sure why, I was on soft tires so his wouldn't have been faded more.

6. Dammit, I didn't touch anything, Lol. Na I slid up into Superman once not realizing he was coming that fast up high but I don't think I had any contact other than that. I was basically the only guy on the bottom. Damage was not on simulation, but visual damage was. If I didn't have any damage it's because I didn't hit someone hard enough or Wheel's replay on here didn't show other cars damage or something.

Hope this helps you and maybe some others will post as well.

THX Shock, ............