only noticeable with external programs like pitspotter and CSR - it's quite evident that lfs is still spectating someone but just has the pits graphical overlay.

a screenie maybe? I've never seen that

Screenie won't help, because what you see is the pit menu/background.

What he is saying is that BEHIND the background (i.e. not visible) the camera goes to spectate mode, and watches a car. If you use pitspotter or CSR (which works on the viewed car) it'll continue to do as the car your spectating (but can't see) is doing.

If he could post a fraps recording that might help, but I don't think it really matters. It strikes me as a fairly elegant way of keeping someone on a server, yet allowing them to pit. LFS wasn't designed to work 100% buglessly with CSR and that sort of thing.

Sure - Scawen seems to have gone to reasonable lengths lately to allow some external fancyness, if he chooses to ignore this that's fine obviously, but figured it was worth a mention