#Ev3 drag racing mod drivers

When your front tyre breaks the pre-stage beam, the topmost set of light bulbs illuminate on the Tree. The first one is called the “pre-stage” beam, and is represented by a white line on the OSD.

The start line involves two “light beams” that cross the track a few inches from the ground.

In this example, the player is racing alone in the left-hand lane. We’ve added a special OSD indicator to help you see the Tree lights and your proximity to the start line.

Each lane has its own set of starting lights, located on a pole known as a “Sportsman Tree”.

In GRID Autosport, we’ve limited the throttle input during this phase to make positioning the vehicle easier. All you need to do is press the accelerator to slowly move towards the start line.

First of all, your vehicle will start in one of the two lanes of the dragstrip.

This process is called “staging”, and it can be tricky to get right, so here’s a handy guide to explain how it works.

#Ev3 drag racing mod drivers

Finally, no matter how good your car is the key to success hinges around how good your reaction times are.īefore a drag race can begin, the drivers have a limited amount of time to get in position. These cars are beasts waiting to be tamed, where a small over-correction could send them careening into a wall, or a late gear change could result in engine damage.Įven with slower cars, there are different strategies to consider, and a psychological stakeout between you and your opponent. At four seconds in, the car is travelling at nearly five hundred feet per second (over three hundred miles per hour), and the extreme duress on the engine finally comes to an end – most of the spark plugs will have been incinerated, so the cylinders either stop firing, or the fuel spontaneously flash-combusts!Īt first glance, it might look easy to drive fast in a straight line but in reality there is more to drag racing than meets the eye.

At two seconds into the run, the car easily surpasses two hundred miles per hour and is still accelerating at five g’s – the engine power is ramped up to maximum, and it’s consuming roughly one and a half gallons of fuel every second.Īfter three seconds, the clutch plates are experiencing such incredible temperatures that they begin to weld themselves together. With a bellow of fire and smoke, zero to one hundred miles per hour is dealt with in less than a second, during a stage when the engine is artificially restricted to prevent the driveshaft from shattering, and the tyres from being shredded. Let’s take a moment to consider how monstrously powerful these cars are. That’s fast enough to cover a quarter-mile in less than 4 seconds.

The experience of driving one is like an all-out assault on the senses, as drivers try to wrestle eight thousand horsepower into submission as they are propelled at speeds in excess of three hundred miles per hour. The stifling heat, the shuddering vibrations, the smell of burnt rubber, the deafening roar of the engines and of course, the earth-shattering acceleration.Īt the pinnacle of GRID Autosport’s drag racing are the mighty “Funny Cars”, so-called because there is nothing normal about them.