rec.autos.simulators

And on the sixth day (of April) Papyrus released the
GPL Demo!  Everything else before this was just a
game :)

Here are my records after a few hours (spent mostly
on the G3), just to get the ball rolling:

Eagle
                  GP          G2          G3

Watkins Glen    1:12.91     1:16.62     1:26.23

In the mid-1500s, Nostradamus predicted that on 06-Apr-98 15:41:57, Pat Dotson
would write:

Nice lap time (GP) Pat ... so far I've manage to do a 1:16:78
in an Eagle GP (no helps).  Did it somewhere amongst a three and
a half lapper before I spun out --- but man, those three laps were
ugly: hitting guard rails, locking up the brakes, fish-tailing all over
the track  :^(  ... at least I didn't get caught in a burning car like I
did a couple of sessions before.

Well, back to practicing ...

elf

Dammm, what is your secret?

Vamp

:                   GP          G2          G3

: Watkins Glen    1:12.91     1:16.62     1:26.23

        Hee hee!  1:11.63 with a Lotus GP for me!  Of course, the guy who
runs the Apex claims a 1:09.xx so I've still got some work to do...

        Finally!  A serious driving sim that rewards flamboyance!

Martin
Nigel Mansell RIP!

Is anyone getting close to the 1:06's the real GP racers used to do,
yet?

yeah!:) except the spectators probably think i take my flamboyance a
little
too far when i go flying into the crowd a couple of times a lap:)

On 06 Apr 98 23:16:11 -0800, "Pat R. Empleo"

On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 22:58:53 +1200, Grant Reeve

I've done 1:07s, but Doug Arnao (one of the other testers) has run
some 1:06s. I think one of the Papy guys has gone faster yet.

Cheers!
John

--
Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports

 Of course you did get a demo of that lap didn't you? I mean if out of the
blue you do a lap that is 3 seconds faster than your best you couldn't help
but save the replay for the many fast lap comps that are starting up.

--
Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports

Mine is 1:09:95 with the Lotus

Thomas (Scocco)
:) dont you just love this sim?!

Outlap
Lap 1 - Spun
Lap 2 - Spun (Yike this car is tail happy!)
Lap 3 - 1:10.16
Lap 4 - 1:09.48
Lap 5 - 1:09.39
Lap 6 - 1:09.01

My best time in the allotted laps was a 1:09.39, but my sixth was a
1:09.01. My seventh was in the mid 1:08s I'd guess, but I downshifted
to first too soon braking for the last corner, locked the rears and
spun out :-(  I'd say a low 1:08 / high 1:07 shouldn't be too
difficult, so I'll watch the time with interest :-)

BTW, I saved a replay of the 1:09.01 if anyone wants it, and will
upload to alt.binaries.simulators.auto or to the GPL Forum. There'll
be faster ones around before long, but it may give people some
pointers. Fast and loose _ain't_ the way to go, in fact I think I only
hung the tail out once in all those laps and that was accidental.
Powerdrifting is important, but not so much that*** the tail out
is obvious - you'll hear the drift in the car, but you can't see it
from and external view.

Cheers!
John

Cheers!
John

Nope, didn't save it (didn't know I could), so I've got no proof. It
was an UGLY lap anyway--sliding all over the place, barely staying on
the track. I'm not much for fast lap comps anyway, so I don't usually
save laps. Should have though!

Like I said, it was pure luck: I have a Voodoo Rush card, so I'm
playing in D3D, and so have had to turn all the details off, which
makes it next to impossible to pick up my braking points. I'll wait
until the real non-alpha game comes out, and see if I can run a lap
worthy of competition.