Engine always breakes

[AtrolinK]

Why does it happens all the times to me?
I'm a decent driver(4% worldwide in f1 2012 multiplayer), i only use automatic gears(and that collides with the "decent driver" statement xD ) and 1 of 3 races i do i have my engine that starts smoking till the end of the race and lower very much my max speed
it doesn't only happen with the marussia i'm driving in single player championship, but very often also with top cars like ferrari or mclaren
is that a bug? or should i just change something in my drivestyle?

[Rusty Monk]

its the flashback's, it's caused by the game thinking your revs are higher when you revert back to a certain part. Only way to HELP prevent it (note not eliminate it) is when you start a flashback, do it when the engine rev's are low and as the game starts again dont put your throttle on at all until its back in, should reduce the amount of times it damages the engine.

[Funnylove]

There is a fix for the flashback issue... but i think i know the problem in your case Atrolink. Yu may not read this post again but well i still hope that it can help others :)

so ppl driving a manual gearbox have the habit from F1 2011 to downgrade before breaking, in F1 2012 basically you have to brake then downgrade... codemasters made this change because some ppl took adventage of the situation because the engine failure was a very rare thing.

It s common sense, in F1 you ll never see a turn in in 6th or 7th gear and radical downgear... so i hope you ll change the approach :)

Hope I helped :)

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Funnylove

[Rusty Monk]

that is true funny, however for people like me on auto gearboxes you still get the engine damage even when you dont override the gearbox, making it very frustrating for people like myself xD

[Funnylove]

how ? because i play automatic gearbox and never had engine issues, that s crazy

[Funnylove]

i think you re putting mix3 just after the lights go off, that s why you get some damage (not critical damage)

[Rusty Monk]

no no no, it only damages my engine when i use flashback's, during races it will never blow, but the damage report shows nothing and my engineer says nothing, but huge plumes of smoke come out from behind and a lose of power is very obvious. Only happens when you use flashbacks and restart with high revs holding the trigger down before it lets you drive again.

[Ricbot]

listen for low revs just after a gear change before using the flashback then, or dont be full throttle when it first starts

If you blow your gearbox there are no warning's it just goes BOOM!!!

Not sure why it blows on auto gears, maybe be more smooth on the brakes to prevent to quick a drop down the gears.

Gear changes have to be smooth to prevent a blow up, no hitting the limiter on way up the gears (7th gear seems ok to max out) on the way down the gears is a massive NO NO. whatever you do... dont over-rev the gears when slowing down, BRAKE FIRST....THEN DROP YOUR GEARS.

this method has worked for me, no more smoking engine/gearbox and full power (mostly Mix 3) for the whole of P1/Q1/Q2/Q3 & Race

[pennarguy]

Codemasters have got it wrong again...you cannot blow an engine in an F1 car when changing down rapidly; the computer software prevents this on a real F1 car, it will accept the gear change but will not make the change until the rpm are safe.
Maybe Codies think we are all driving Lotus 49's lol

[AtrolinK]

thank you very much to all af you! and as to solve this i've just turned off flashbacks eventually xD more the risk, more the fun. and the engine seems to survive the race.

[GUR]

I do al the things u guys say but its still smoking /./