Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-69.249.158.179-20131025012610

Hello all, I'm hoping to find if anyone else has experienced a strange phenomenon I experienced in GT4 a short while ago. While I know physical damage isn't part of the game I'm curious as to whether or not there is any possibility of mechanical failure, as I think I've experienced it.

Recently, I was making my third attempt at one of the endurance races, the short 100 laps of the Super Speedway. I know, eight hours of the Nurburgring no problem, make a few left turns and I walk away with a silver medal twice. Guess I'm not in NASCAR's demographic...

Anyway, for my third and thankfully charmed attempt, I used my recently acquired Minolta Toyota race car with stage four turbo. I handed things over to the B-spec driver, set him to a comfy "2" and switched overtake on.

He proceeded to leave the others, including the second place Sauber Merc behind and soon enough he was eighty laps deep and way ahead. Then all of a sudden, the lapped Merc was in first place. It went into the pits and gave back first, but then chased the Minolta down in a hearbeat as it was capping at about 160mph on the straights with plenty of fuel and green tires.

I took over quickl and found out why; the car was driving like it had a broken tie rod or control arm. On the straights it was all over the place, absolutely mad. It still had the speed but the car was tramming all over the road and needing constant corrections to keep it in an even remotely straight line.

Thankfull I managed to chase the Sauber down with plenty of turbo power and held the Toyota through a really frightening lap 98 slide to keep first and take the win, but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this sudden onset of instability in a car. It's been the only time it's happened to me and I can't figure out what it was or why it happened. 