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Nov 11, 2010

SUNDAY NIGHTS RACE RICK AND I TIED FOR THE POLE I BELIEVE I POSTED MY TIME FIRST
I STARTED ON THE POLE BUT RICK GOT THE POINTS ??? I HAD THE SAME THING HAPPEN AWHILE BACK
WITH RAY! I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS HAPPENING??
I DON'T WANT TO CHANGE ANY POINTS AND I AM NOT MAD OR ANYTHING
I AM JUST LOOKING FOR SOME ANSWERS Confused

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IF YOU VALUE LIFE DON'T WASTE TIME BECAUSE THAT ALL THAT LIFE IS MADE OF

Oct 11, 2010

Bob, here's your answer. Since you aren't mad, I hope this doesn't make you mad... :wink:

I use ReplayAnalyzer to process the replay after the race. That creates a report and it is that report that I use for processing the points. Whatever is in the report from ReplayAnalyzer is considered official.

Here's the output from the CupSpeedway report:
Generated with NASCAR2003 Replay Analyzer

Track: Dover_sbp Sun Aug 16 22:15:17 2020

QUALIFYING TIMES

Pos No Driver Time Diff Speed Diff Laps
1 49 Rick Turcic 22.338s 161.161 2
2 30 Bob Dillon 22.338s 00.000s 161.161 1.e-0 2
3 89 Vince Kramer 22.363s 00.025s 160.980 0.181 2
4 75 R Merritts Sr 22.365s 00.027s 160.966 0.195 2
5 79 Crabby 22.435s 00.097s 160.464 0.697 2
6 43 Larry Cole 22.543s 00.205s 159.695 1.466 2
7 5 Corvette-fan 22.660s 00.322s 158.871 2.291 2
8 230 Paint4life 22.688s 00.350s 158.674 2.487 2
9 98 Greg Artlip 22.810s 00.472s 157.826 3.335 2
10 -1 Pace Car No Time No Time No Time No Time 0
11 48 Dennis Turner No Time No Time No Time No Time 0
12 77 Jeff Perry No Time No Time No Time No Time 0
13 6 Brett Carter No Time No Time No Time No Time 0
14 40 Gary Moran No Time No Time No Time No Time 0
15 41 Michael Grimmett No Time No Time No Time No Time 0
16 999 AOR CupSpeedway No Time No Time No Time No Time 0

All times are official

So, when I processed the points for the website, Rick was in position 1 and received credit for the pole.

Now, for as why you started on the pole instead of Rick, I don't have a definitive answer for that. I can speculate that the game sorts by the time then the driver name so since Bob comes before Rick you ended up starting on the pole. BUT, that's just a guess on my part.

... And so it goes ...

Nov 11, 2010

OK THANKS JEFF I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE TO USE THE REPLAY ANALYZER AND IT IS WHAT IT IS
I JUST KNEW IN BOTH CASES I POSTED MY TIME BEFORE THEM
THANKS AGAIN NO PROBLEM HERE
BOB

Nov 11, 2010

I'm not sure that I agree with the fact that a secondary program overrides the primary game decision.
But so it goes...

Nov 07, 2010

The replay clearly showed the 30 car started from the pole.

Nov 11, 2010

And the game clearly did not show you starting from the pole, but the secondary program overrode a game penalty and gave it to you.

Irony.

Nov 07, 2010

No I won the pole. And a penalty started me in the back....just like it does in the real world. Nice try

Dec 04, 2010

Gary this question was about Sunday Aug 16
According to the Replay Analyzer
On that night it shows you qualified 14 with NO TIME posted.

Nov 07, 2010

I know it is about Bob

Nov 11, 2010

No Gary, N2003 DQ'd you. RA gave you the pole. My point still stands.

Nov 07, 2010

I think you need to read NASCAR rule book

Nov 11, 2010

No, I don't. NASCAR's rulebook has nothing to do with this. Why don't you just read what was written rather than imposing your own righteousness. Had we not been using RA, you would NOT have been given the pole. That is as simple as I can put it.