The 58 CSR2 Cars Nobody Has Recorded a Time For
58 cars on the CSR Racing 2 record sheet have a dyno figure and no real time. Here is what they are, why the gap exists, and what to do if you own one.
Search a car in our database and you will occasionally find it there with everything filled in except the thing you came for: no recorded time. It is not a bug and it is not laziness. There are 58 of them, and the gap tells you something.
This article is about the blank cells, because a dataset is only honest if it explains its own holes.
What is actually missing
Of the 1,309 cars on the sheet, 1,251 have a recorded elapsed time and 58 do not. That is 4.4% of the database.
Crucially, almost all of them are not empty rows:
| What the row contains | Cars |
|---|---|
| A dyno figure but no real time | 56 |
| Neither a dyno nor a real time | 2 |
| A full tune recorded | 31 |
| Purple stars | 22 |
So 56 of the 58 have been built and measured in the game — somebody got far enough to read a dyno figure off the tuning screen. What is missing is a recorded run, which takes a driver, a race and somebody bothering to write the result down.
31 of them even have a full tune recorded. Those cars have been set up properly and nobody has posted a time for them.
They cluster where you would expect
| Tier 5 | 41 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 4 | 10 | |
| Tier 3 | 4 | |
| Tier 2 | 3 | |
| Tier 1 | 0 |
Not one Tier 1 car is missing a time. 41 of the 58 are Tier 5.
Tier 5 holds 71% of the sheet and 71% of the gaps, so proportionally the tiers are not very different. What is notable is Tier 1: sixteen cars, every one of them timed. A tier that small gets covered completely.
By manufacturer the gaps follow the size of each range — Ford 9, Porsche 7, Chevrolet 6, then Bentley, BMW and Dodge on 3 each. There is no brand being systematically ignored; the brands with the most cars simply have the most untested ones.
Why a car ends up with no time
We cannot know for certain in any individual case, but the sheet points at three likely explanations.
The first and most common is that the car is new. A record only exists once somebody has owned the car, finished the build and run it properly. A car added in a recent update simply has not had time to accumulate one.
The second is that nobody cares enough. Several of the untimed cars are mid-table Tier 5 saloons and SUVs — a Bentley Continental GT Speed, a BMW M3 CS Touring, an Aston Martin DBX S. Their dyno figures suggest they are unremarkable, and nobody spends a weekend chasing a record on a car that will finish 400th.
The third is that the car is hard to get. A limited-event car owned by very few players has a correspondingly small pool of people who could set a time with it.
What a dyno-only row is worth
More than you might think, because of what we know about the relationship between the two numbers.
Across the 1,246 cars with both figures, the real recorded time beats the dyno 98.7% of the time, by a median of 0.115 seconds. So a dyno figure is a reliable upper bound: the car will almost certainly be at least that quick, and probably about a tenth quicker.
Take the Bentley Continental Supersports, listed at a dyno of 7.519 with no recorded time. The sheet median says a real run would land somewhere near 7.40. That is enough to tell you roughly where the car sits — around the Tier 5 median of 7.352 — without anybody having driven it for a record.
Treat it as an estimate with error bars, not a time. The spread around that median is wide: a quarter of cars find more than 0.2 seconds and a few find over a second.
One more thing the dyno-only rows give you is a sanity check on the car before you commit to it. If the listed dyno is already well off the pace for its tier, no amount of driving will rescue it — the median car only finds 0.115 seconds over the prediction, and three quarters find less than two tenths.
If you own one of the 58
- You are in genuinely uncharted territory, which is rarer than it sounds — 95.6% of the game has been measured by somebody.
- Use the dyno as your floor. The car will very likely run quicker than it, by roughly a tenth at the median.
- Your own run is worth recording. These are the rows where a single player can add something the community does not have.
- Do not read the blank as a verdict. It means untested, not slow. Several untimed cars have dyno figures that would place them comfortably mid-field.
It is also worth checking whether the car appears elsewhere on the sheet under a slightly different name. Several models are listed separately at different Elite Customs levels or star ratings, so a blank row is sometimes just the one variant nobody has run.
Why we leave the blanks visible
It would be easy to hide these rows and present a tidy database of 1,251 fully populated cars. We show them for the same reason we flag the rows that look wrong.
A player searching for their car wants to know whether a time exists. An empty result tells them the car is missing from the sheet; a row with a dyno and a blank time tells them the car is known, measured and simply unrecorded. Those are different answers and the second one is more useful.
It also keeps us honest about coverage. 95.6% of the sheet has a recorded time, and saying so plainly is better than quietly presenting the covered part as though it were everything.
All 58 are in the record database with whatever is known about them. Sort by time and they collect at the bottom, where the blank is the honest answer rather than a hidden one.