It's obvious to me that the people who operate this game don't actually play it. Nor do they pay any attention to their customers who play it. Race C, Watkins Glen. Getting into the pits and back out again without 3 or 6 seconds of penalties is nearly impossible. 6 seconds worth of penalties on my first try. What a complete waste of my time. So, I spend some qualifying laps to figure it out. Apparently, there is a barely visible yellow lane line that just kind of starts a ways back from the last turn. It's damn near impossible to see due to the sun glare on the windshield. No commitment cone. No white horizontal line. No markings of any kind other than a barely visible dull yellow line that just ends on the pavement. Where it ends is the magic spot. You cannot roll over that magic spot, You have to be to the right of that spot. You are now entering a very narrow lane that follows the corner around. So narrow that you better be considerably slowed down. But, for those who aren't pitting, it is still the apex of the corner. That's right, the pit commit lane is still an active part of the race track. But you have to slow down enough to keep your car in this very narrow lane as it curves around. Who came up with this stuff? So I practice it a few times and finally got it down. First time I try it live in a race, some dumbass blasts into me from behind and knocks me out of the lane. Imagine that! 3 second penalty crossing the pit line for me. Nothing for him. Then, just for the sake of keeping their incompetence consistent, as I'm leaving the pit, autodrive drops me over the line on exit just as it hands control back to me. Nothing I could do... that's where it put me. Now, I've got 6 seconds of penalties. What the hell are you gonna do with 6 second of penalties in a 10 lap race. Your done. So rather than rage quit, or even rage ruin the race for everyone else, I decided to use the remainder of the race pitting every lap to see if i could do it. Not once was I able to get in and out cleanly. Either I barely, briefly touched the grubby yellow line on the way in, or someone would punt me over it, or the autodrive would dump me over the line on exit. Or both. The exit autodrive thing seems to be randomly slightly different each time. Sometimes it dumps you over the line, sometimes it doesn't. I was driving my DBR9. When I was driving my Z4 it seemed to work better with the autodrive exit thing, but I like driving the DBR9. It's way too frustrating to even think about entering more races, knowing so much of it is completely out of my control, and completely due to the incompetence of people who obviously don't even use their own product. If they did, they would fix it.
