Blue Brake Light

[Superhero Wally]

I tried a search and couldn't find anything, and i was wondering if anyone else noticed that the Audi TT-R has a blue brake light(the one that is located centrally inside the rear window). And wether or not it is a glitch or is significant in the real life Touring Car series. You can see it light up between the airfoils on the rear wing in third person view.

 

[AOS-]

TT-R? The abt Audi Touring one with the giant black spoiler that sits on a platform under the car? I only used it once to the TT event and that was it. Well I cant see these things becasue I never run replays and i drive in-car view.

 

[GT40 MKII]

ive noticed it too.... ill try and dig up a vid of the real one and see if it is true or not.

 

[Dougboy]

Has anyone caught this on photomode?

 

[Loon]

I do, I do, and he speaks the truth.

 

[kart racer]

This is cool.I will have to check this out.My quess is that this is a glitch.Someone forgot to change a code to make it red.( but don't stop looking for real vid to see if this is correct)

 

[Loon]

Turns out it was on purpose.



At about 13-14 seconds the camera zooms out and you'll see the blue light flicker a bit.

 

[GT40 MKII]

wow, that thing has some SERIOUS horsepower

 

[Gonz013]

Turns out it was on purpose.

At about 13-14 seconds the camera zooms out and you'll see the blue light flicker a bit.

Nice work, Loon!

 

[azevedojose]

I think that's the traction control warning to the race marshalls. Think they were only allowed to use the traction control in pits or something... it was prohibited during race.

Can someone verify this?

 

[Beerz]

Even if that's true ( I really don't know for sure), that's a street demo, so it's plausible that he had it on when he started to move forward after the burnout.

And yes, that brake light is blue (to my knowledge), at least I remember seeing it during the 2002 races.

 

[Loon]

Nice work, Loon!

Thanks Gonz.👍 I actually wasted alot of time on google looking for pics of the car but I eventually gave up and checked out youtube, that was the first vid I checked, some luck huh.

 

[AOS-]

I liek drivers who can do road tricks with racing cars , they put quite soem effort into donig that kind of stuff.

 

[Dracwolley]

I either say:
My theory:

It's the light for the emergency brake.

When he swung the car around, and when the camera zoomed out near the end, you didn't see the red brake lights go on, the main brake lights. But you did see the blue one. He could've used the emergency brake for those.

When the light flickered, he was probably tapping the emergency brake trying to keep the car stable.

or:
I think azevedojose is right.

Why would brake lights be blue?

And, it went two times. One where the driver swung the car around and another when he took off from the burnout. Those are both spots where the traction control would've kicked in.

 

[Jim Prower]

Huh. I never noticed a blue light on the car. I'll drive it with TCS on and off to see what it does.

 

[Superhero Wally]

Thanks guys. Nice work

 

[-Cheezman-]

I think that light actually indicates a top speed limiter. I know some race cars used to use a flashing tail light to indicate that a top speed limiter was active. I'm not sure but I think DTM still uses this.

That, or it simply is, just a blue brake light. I don't think there is any written law in racing that says brake lights have to be red..... maybe there is.

 

[Tulok]

either way, its cool that this was discovered, nice vid korbert

 

[kart racer]

That throughs my idea out the window.Good work.👍

 

[Beerz]

I think speed limiter warning lights (mainly for pit-in use) do have to be red, but I'm not completely sure.

 

[hardtofind]

GT4 is serios about lights.i like the details like that.in bmw1 also has original brake lighting.if you brake little just two lights on but if you brake heavy the lights on all four of them.also in night back lights extra glows for braking like the real bmws
i remember how i wanted these in gt3:tup:

 

[TuneRVisioN]

Cool find, hardtofind...

 

[ken2903]

havent watched the video because my internet connection is slow today but from what people have posted it sounds alot like a 'pit lane' speed limiter light. in our V8 touring car championship here (australia) i think its a red light, that gets turned on in bad weather and/or flashes when they turn the speed limiter on.

 

[Loon]

Well what happens in the vid is...

The Audi is slowly coming towards the camera, then it whips around in a 180, stops and procedes to do a burn out, as he's peeling out the light flickers on and off. It's only like 18 seconds anyway.