Instant Replay Function
IndyCar Racing moved on significantly from the innovative but limited instant replay feature in Indianapolis 500: The Simulation. Whereas the latter offered a re-run of only the last 20 seconds of on-track action, and only from the perspective of either the player's own car or the leader, IndyCar Racing stores around an hour of footage from several different camera angles and for each of the active cars on the track. (Retired or crashed cars can no longer be selected for viewing after they are removed from the track.) Unlimited numbers of replays could be saved as well. There was no replay-editing function within the game; a third-party program, Editrpy, was subsequently written to perform functions such as copying and pasting individual laps into new replay files, exporting data from a replay into reports or spreadsheets, and producing files of speed and acceleration data for each car. This utility can still be downloaded from fansites.
The available camera angles are:
- TV 1
- A series of standard television-style cameras in fixed positions around the track
- TV 2
- Available on some ovals; lower and with a wider range than the "TV 1" cameras
- IN CAR
- A view from beside the driver's helmet, looking out over the right front wheel
- GEARBOX
- A rear-facing camera mounted to the underside of the car, again on the right-hand side
- CHASE
- A camera locked on to the rear of the car, just above track level
- SKY
- Above and slightly behind the car; locked on to it, as with the Chase camera
- BLIMP
- A very high-level camera which locks on to the car as far as possible
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