AWESOME Glitch! B-Spec In An A-Spec Race!

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I wish this happened to me sooner, but...I was at 3:15 of the 4 hour Roadster Endurance race in A-Spec. I was 20 laps ahead, so I was wasting time (read: curing monotony) by ramming other cars, rearranging the order, and my long-time GT series favorite: forcing other cars into the pit stops.

I was attempting the latter, when the nose of my car slipped too far into Tsukuba's long wrap-around pit lane. The computer took over the controls and the tires/fuel menu popped up, but my car still had enough momentum that it went out of the pit lane and was carried onto the other side of the pit wall and past the finish lane, all while under the computer's command. I hit "OK" on the pit menu, hoping it would fizzle and let me take over. Instead, the car did a 90 degree turn and rammed the pit wall, as if it were still trying to get in. It backed up, turned the wheels, and rammed the wall again, this time about 10 feet further forward. It did this over and over, slowly inching its way forward, and after about 30-45 seconds of this, finally got to the front of the wall, where instead of running into the wall, it drove into the pit lane runoff, then veered towards turn 1...

STILL in control, the computer proceeded to run the lap, the FULL lap, not at pit lane speed, but at the same pace that Bob would! I thought it was attempting to get back into the pits, but it drove right past them and kept running. At the time of posting this, the car has been driving by itself, running lap times about 1-4 seconds behind mine, or some 15-20 laps. The race only has 24 minutes left, so I'll keep the thread updated on how it handles fuel, tires, and finishing the race.

Exploiters rejoice!
 
Not sure I'm going to run out of tire or fuel before the end of the race. That would really help.... :( Just to be thorough, I am updated through 1.05. I got a video, with a crappy cell phone, but I'm sure there are going to be plenty of people coming up with different ways that the video could be a fake. I'm pretty sure the race is too long to save the replay on...

My next step for sure will be trying this for the Suzuka 1000 race, but I don't think any tracks have a pit lane that's as easily to blow through as Tsukuba.

Edit: I think the Nurburgring GP course has the same sort of entrance as Tsukuba, I'll bet that one is doable, but the Nordschleife's is probably impossible... :(
 
I, too, can confirm this works.

Was knocked into the pits on Daytona, but my car flew into the grass with the menu pop up, clicked ok, computer started driving around the track.

Interesting glitch though. It's the question of will he pit later or not.
 
Well the race finished. His tires were quite low, low enough that I'm pretty sure Bob would have pitted. He was feathering the throttle a lot, so he was definitely having trouble with them. His fuel was still at 1/4, but I'm guessing he would have continued driving at 50 MPH if he ran out of fuel. Inconclusive, perhaps, but I'm still going to experiment with this. :)
 
This type of thing happens since the first game release date. It will depend on track if the "b-spec" driver will ever make it around the circuit. It Monaco when it happened to me because of the tight corners he just got half way around then permanently got stuck in a barrier.
 
Whoa! This was in the video comments:

Here's whats interesting - my tyres were so shot that I was eventually passed in the last few minutes and dropped to 4th, yet when I crossed the line I was shown as the winner and got all the prize money, car, exp etc as normal. I don't know if it was a seperate glitch or what, but I'm not exactly complaining! 
 
Just had this happen in the 9 hour race at Tsukuba Circuit.

6 hours and 500 laps into the 9 hour endurance race, I cut the final corner at the track and rammed another car and it thinks I want to go into the pit. But I am travelling way too fast and it goes way past the pit and spins.

It then somehow goes into B-Spec mode and the car is automatically racing around the circuit with no assistance. But it doesn't pit, so has no tyres, runs out of fuel, but is somehow driving itself around on fumes at 49 mph.

Then I had to hope it didn't stop for almost 2.5 hours and can could complete enough laps going 49 mph to win the race.

Luckily, managed to complete the race and win. But it is a strange glitch.
 
Man you ever heard of losing by a little is better than winning by a lot? 35 laps ahead! I guess monotony! Boredom! LOL. At least you got something out of it though , great find!
 
I had the exact same thing happen to me at Daytona Road course last week. The computer took over the driving just as described above.

The strange thing was, the car was being driven a lot quicker than my B-Spec Bob can. The back end was sliding and drifting, and the computer set a time only one second off my best lap!
 
Hipwell
Just had this happen in the 9 hour race at Tsukuba Circuit.

6 hours and 500 laps into the 9 hour endurance race, I cut the final corner at the track and rammed another car and it thinks I want to go into the pit. But I am travelling way too fast and it goes way past the pit and spins.

It then somehow goes into B-Spec mode and the car is automatically racing around the circuit with no assistance. But it doesn't pit, so has no tyres, runs out of fuel, but is somehow driving itself around on fumes at 49 mph.

Then I had to hope it didn't stop for almost 2.5 hours and can could complete enough laps going 49 mph to win the race.

Luckily, managed to complete the race and win. But it is a strange glitch.
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Did you watch the rest of the race? Are you sure you staed in first the whole time? One person so far has reported that he fell back to 4th by the time the race ended, but was still awarded first, as if his position was recorded at the time the computer took over.

As the video comment says, this is extremely hard to reproduce. i'm trying to find the "trick," as this will make for some great leveling, especially on the 9 hour race.
 
Forcing other cars to pit. I laughed so hard at this. I never thought actually thought of this, it's going to make those enduro's so much funner.
 
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Forcing other cars to pit. I laughed so hard at this. I never thought actually thought of this, it's going to make those enduro's so much funner.
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Do you know what is way more funner (fun)? Using a car that doesn't murder the whole field and actually forces you to race for the whole length of the race. "But I don't want to risk losing the race and having to do it all over again." To each their own handgun... fecking amateurs, Christian Bale style.
 
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Do you know what is way more funner (fun)? Using a car that doesn't murder the whole field and actually forces you to race for the whole length of the race. "But I don't want to risk losing the race and having to do it all over again." To each their own handgun... fecking amateurs, Christian Bale style.
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Someone's a bit cranky :)
 
Troux
Did you watch the rest of the race? Are you sure you staed in first the whole time? One person so far has reported that he fell back to 4th by the time the race ended, but was still awarded first, as if his position was recorded at the time the computer took over.

As the video comment says, this is extremely hard to reproduce. i'm trying to find the "trick," as this will make for some great leveling, especially on the 9 hour race.
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Yes watched some of it, stayed in first as I was so far ahead.
 
I'm trying to do this myself and I'm finding it immpossible to do.
Can anyone help?
At which bit of the pit lane do you need to blow past?

Any help would be massively appreciated.
 
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Just popping in with an update to say I JUST activate this glitch again. This time it's the 9 hr race on Tsukuba in the X1, and I'm only an hour and 45 minutes in. Once again, this was a result of trying to pit other cars (with a lot of success!). Now that I've done this twice, I can update you with a bit of help.

Both times, I 'engaged' the pit sequence near the actual pit entrance, and both times, with the aid of another car. It seems like what happened was my nose entered the pit, then I selected "OK" on the pit menu, and was pushed out just slightly by the Lexus. The computer took over and reversed out of the pit at about the same time. It reversed way out of the pit, into the middle of the track, and then with the pit entrance in sight, it actually went straight on the circuit, and again tried to turn into the pit about halfway through the wall.

Since my nose touched the wall while the Lexus was pushing me, it MIGHT be possible that you can activate this by hitting the right portion of the wall dead on, selecting OK in the pit options, then letting the computer reverse too far out of the pit. What may have helped is the fact that the X1 is so fast, touching the reverse for just a half second sent it pretty far.

With 7 hours left, I'm certain I'll run out of fuel and tires and be left in last place. A Youtube comment said one guy started the glitch in first, finished the race in fourth, and was awarded first. I'll be able to share my results at the end.

Good luck!
 
nice is it possible to do this without having a computer car near you?

will be nice to try especially for the roadstar event as its boring as hell, i got 45mins into it and ended up quiting figuring i was never going to do it again lol.

if i can let b-spec bob drive around instead will give it a go.
 

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