Disallowing Bad Laps

Being still relatively new at this I am hotlapping one car on five tracks. When I set a new personal record I go on to the next track. The problem is bad laps. To my way of thinking, if you get four wheels off the lap shouldn't count but AC counts it. It may be forever inshrined as your best lap unless you delete it and start over. I tried to figure out how to manually revise the lap record data but nobody has come up with a way to do that, at least not a method that worked for me. Is there any way to disallow bad laps so they are not considered for best lap?

 

Do you have penalties enabled?

 

Not that I am aware of. All that solve this problem? How do I do it?

 

It's in the same place you adjust track temps and stuff like that, it's on the right hand side where you can enable/disable the ghost car(hotlap mode).

 

I know where that is. However, will it apply to Hotlaps? I'm pretty sure it is off right now but lap records still get recorded. It says achievements will not be recorded if it is off but does that mean non-achievements will not be recorded if it is on?

I'll give you a for instance where this got me. I don't know the names of the turns but at Spa, coming off the hill, there is a long double apex turn with a huge amount of runoff. I ran off slightly because I was going too fast but because I was going too fast I ended up setting a personal best. I only discovered what happened when I replayed the lap. By then it had already been saved. It should not have been.

 

With penalties off track limits aren't enforced in any session, with penalties on they will enforce the AC default track limits of 2 tyres allowed out. This seems strict on paper but the official tracks usually have curbs and astro as valid track so its still often a bit softer then allowing 3 tyres out which is the more accepted rule for many race classes. 3 tyres out is also often from the white line meaning curbs would not be valid but some series and particular tracks seem to have different standards so there is no one blanket rule and understanding for all.

 

I get that but I'm trying to find out how it affects personal lap records. Unfortunately I am out of town so can't test it myself. If nobody says anything, when I get home I will try it on a fresh track.

 

If penalties are on then outside track limit laps arent valid or saved anywhere, also obviously if penalties are off every lap is counted and considered valid.

 

Thanks. Can't wait to get home to try it.

 

Thanks. Worked like a charm. I took a car I hadn't driven before and did a slow lap. Then I did a faster lap and purposely got all four wheels outside the line. The system said my personal best was the slow lap, which is exactly what I wanted.

This leads to a new question, which I can test myself but might not need to. This is under session settings. Does that mean it has to be reset each time or does it remember?

 

It sticks!! I was able to give it a try before anybody replied.

This is great! Now if I set a new personal I know it all be legal.

 

There is an "official" laptime leaderboard, RSR Live Timing. You can subscribe and install the app, then you can compare your lap times with those of other people, too. If installing the app is too much of a headache, you can still just go to the website and check the times to have an idea of where you stand.
Here is the link: http://www.radiators-champ.com/RSRLiveTiming/

 

Yes and RSR even has its own lap invalidation wbich is slightly stricter then ingame default penalties as generally astro turf is not considered valid track but it is in most official tracks.

 

I understand they are shutting down in a couple of months.

However, at this point I am not far enough along to worry about what other people are doing. I'm just trying to improve my own times but I wanted to be sure to exclude the bad laps.