On LFSW now, you can only view the details of a race for any user, but would it be possible for LFSW to also have a replay of the race you want to see the details of?

Don't know what you other guys would think of it, I just like watching other peoples' races. Maybe would also be good for some people who forget to save race replays that they want.

Unworkable due to the sheer amount of information that would need to be stored.

It would be nice, but a big task. It would cost a lot of money to store replays that very, very few people will watch.

Not in the near future.

EDIT: Beaten!

even though it might be possible i guess, you would need at least a yottabyte or so in order to store all the replays and cover a decent amount of time (like 10 years? just guessing here...) (demo servers excluded that is)

Pretty much what I thought, those small replays add up. Then there are the people who do the enduro races and that will add up more. Oh well.

It would be nice if it stored replays for a certain amount of time, say 24-48 hours. If you don't get a chance, or forget to save the replay, you could go back and get it. Or, if you weren't in the race, but it was a race you wanted to watch, you could grab it later. I'm sure that would still use quite a bit of disk space and bandwidth though

As has been said before the amount of disk space and bandwidth used by this system would make it impractical. The idea of short term storage (up to a week) is more practical and still appealing though. It would be interesting to hear from someone from CTRA who could provide us with some numbers for disk space and bandwidth demands they get for the replays they have stored. AFAIK they auto save all replays on all of their servers, but I don't know for what period of time.

What you could do is make a program that collects at all the sector times etc, and allows you to watch the race in 2D like with LFSremote. However, it would be pretty useless I think!

Quote from 510N3D :

even though it might be possible i guess, you would need at least a yottabyte or so in order to store all the replays and cover a decent amount of time (like 10 years? just guessing here...) (demo servers excluded that is)

You just wanted an excuse to use the word 'yottabyte' didn't you ?

*cough* FINALLY...