Once a yellow is triggered, the AI lines up single-file and slows to about 100 km/h (roughly 60 mph) for the duration of the caution, with the occasional acceleration moments – be sure to keep a bit of distance in order to avoid collisions. Getting the yellow flag warning and seeing a battlefield of broken race car parts moments later feels appropriate when racing, however, the first are with room for improvement shows immediately in the length of the FCY phases: In every single instance we have encountered, they only lasted for two full laps after the lap they were triggered – which is less invasive to the flow of a race, but not exactly realistic in most cases.

So, how well does it work? Full-course yellows, if switched on, get triggered reliably by incidents that would warrant a caution period from what SRU has encountered when trying the new feature. The implementation of full-course yellows was so important to developer Reiza Studios that problems with the system caused the planned July update to be pushed back and merged with the August update. A few hotfixes followed to iron out small issues quickly.Īpart from the “roval” at Jacarepagua where CART held the Rio 400 (later Rio 200) from 1996 to 2000, which was already in the sim before the update, World Wide Technology Raceway (aka Gateway), Auto Club Speedway (aka Fontana) and the oval version of Daytona (the road course had been introduced with the first part of Racin’ USA) are now available for oval fans to race at in AMS2. With the update to v1.4, AMS2 has joined iRacing and rF2 in the lineup of contemporary sims that support the discipline. While RaceRoom and Assetto Corsa (via mods) have oval tracks available, neither officially supports them, with AC not supporting flying starts or full-course yellows. Most sims focus on road racing, with iRacing and rFactor 2 being the only outliers in that they implemented ovals properly as well.

As a central element, full-course yellows have been implemented, but how well does the left-turn spectacle hold up in its current form? Version 1.4 of Automobilista 2 is here, and the update has brought numerous improvements to the sim – as well as an entirely new discipline in oval racing.

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