rec.autos.simulators

by **Bart Brow** » Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:50:08

But speaking of Speedvision and Car & Driver... I imagine everyone here
knows that Fox has bought SPV (and will be changing its name to 'The
Speed Channel"); what's more worrisome, as revealed in the latest Car &
Driver's article on the sad clown show that CART has become, is that Fox
may well turn Speedvision/The Speed Channel into NASCARTV, devoting more
and more of its programming time to every possible aspect of NASCAR,
which means less and less available air time for WRC, Touring Cars,
FIAGT, Petit LeMans, not-so-Petit LeMans, Legends of Motorsport, and
that other sad clown show, F1. Frankly, I don't particularly *care* what
brand of underwear Jeff Gordon wears (though the thought of HIM in
stiletto heels and a leather bustier is intriguing, to say the most).

BB

by **double** » Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:11:06

The moment I think of when you mentioned this, was several rallys ago, where
the in-car shot was of someone driving up a windy road in very thick fog.
It was absolutely breath-taking. Also, how many in-car crash shots are as
dramatical, and show as much emotion, as for example, the one of Colin and
Nicky rolling over several times in the Rally of Great Britian. 'nuff said.

> Amen.

> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 00:41:40 -0500, "Marc Collins"

> >They are.

> >Marc

> >> Watching it right now makes me wonder, again, if these guys aren't the
> >> best drivers in the world, overall.

by **Stephen Smit** » Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:19:21

No, we were required to wear burqas by the Vice President in charge of
Prohibiting Virtue and Promoting Vice.

> >(stiletto heels, leather bustiers, and my perfect
> > pencil-sharpener***to the contrary notwithstanding).

> Were you equipped that way when you were editor of Car & Driver?

> BB

by **Stephen Smit** » Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:20:07

What I said....

by **Rick Baumhaue** » Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:55:33

Yep, that was an awesome day - had the TV on the whole time. What's
particularly cool is that the new season starts in about 2 weeks, and now I
have a good idea of who everybody is and what their personalities are like.
Looks like I'm going to be following WRC now, on top of everything else :^)

by **Kendt Eklu** » Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:31:28

> Kent,

> Perhaps I spoke too soon. But it *will* happen. I'm not called Cassandre
> for nothing (stiletto heels, leather bustiers, and my perfect
> pencil-sharpener***to the contrary notwithstanding).

> There is a perfectly good modern rally sim: Mobil 1 Rally Championship.
> Excellent graphics, tactile feedback, and tweakable physics. There's also
> CMR2 and a bunch of others. Rally Trophy sounds interesting...if you like
> Fiat-Abarth 600s and Volvo PV544s.

> --Steve

Oh yeah - I know Rally Championship - I *love* it. Even with the
slightly quirky physics I think it's the best out there. I guess I'm
lamenting that they went to the RC Xtreme ***instead of a minor
update and real WRC courses :(. Nothing beats 20min of flat out
white-knuckle driving with an Act-Labs Force RS cranked to 100%.
Actually with all the patches and slightly tweaked physics values,
it's really pretty good. You're gonna make me get back to my A8
championship. Good thing it looks like I'll be snowed in tomorrow.

Kendt

by **Dave Henri** » Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:54:36

It will be a little confusing for the first events...WRC Richard Burns has
left Subaru, Tommy Makkinen has left Mitsubishi, but good ol Colin is still
with Ford I think.
dave henrie

> Yep, that was an awesome day - had the TV on the whole time. What's
> particularly cool is that the new season starts in about 2 weeks, and now
I
> have a good idea of who everybody is and what their personalities are
like.
> Looks like I'm going to be following WRC now, on top of everything else
:^)

> > (Without taking the effort to check their online programming guide in
> > advance,) I was hoping that Speedvision would show the FIA Rally Recap
> > Marathon today, and I'm pleased to see that they did not disappoint.

> > viva la speedvision! (or something)

by **Dave Henri** » Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:54:37

Rallye is indeed facinating to watch. Especially the incar footage....how
the co-driver keeps track of their location, and how the driver can actually
hear him in all the hubbub is amazing. One of the drivers had a camera
pointed at his face. I don't think he blinked once when he was on camera.
How long can an average person go without blinking??
It reminds me of the Le Mans race when Toyota last ran. The had a face
camera on one of the Japanese drivers(the former F1 guy--mindblank at the
moment) and he NEVER blinked. How do they do that??
dave henrie

> >(Without taking the effort to check their online programming guide in
> >advance,) I was hoping that Speedvision would show the FIA Rally Recap
> >Marathon today, and I'm pleased to see that they did not disappoint.

> Rats, I didn't know about that. I'm not a big rally fan, but that would
have
> been interesting to watch...

> Eldred
> --
> Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001
> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> GPLRank - under construction...

> Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats
you
> with experience...
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by **Bart Brow** » Sat, 05 Jan 2002 03:14:47

> What I said....

SO you did -- missed that part of the thread. Well, Fox Fux us again...

BB

by **Stuart Becktel** » Sat, 05 Jan 2002 06:29:43

Get the Mika Hakkinen gene...or become a robot (I guess they are the same
thing...)
-Stuart Becktell

> Rallye is indeed facinating to watch. Especially the incar
footage....how
> the co-driver keeps track of their location, and how the driver can
actually
> hear him in all the hubbub is amazing. One of the drivers had a camera
> pointed at his face. I don't think he blinked once when he was on camera.
> How long can an average person go without blinking??
> It reminds me of the Le Mans race when Toyota last ran. The had a
face
> camera on one of the Japanese drivers(the former F1 guy--mindblank at the
> moment) and he NEVER blinked. How do they do that??
> dave henrie

> > >(Without taking the effort to check their online programming guide in
> > >advance,) I was hoping that Speedvision would show the FIA Rally Recap
> > >Marathon today, and I'm pleased to see that they did not disappoint.

> > Rats, I didn't know about that. I'm not a big rally fan, but that would
> have
> > been interesting to watch...

> > Eldred
> > --
> > Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001
> > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> > GPLRank - under construction...

> > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats
> you
> > with experience...
> > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

by **Stephen Smit** » Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:28:54

Kendt,

Where are you? Buffalo? ;o)

I just re-ran the while 6-race BRC, but, to win, I had to crank *all* the
cheats up to 200%. I felt ashamed, but the game cheats, too! (The timing
and scoring are way off the mark.) Now I've unlocked the A8 Championship
and may have a go at that with the cheats dialed back to more realistic
levels. The worse is the braking--even w/o *any* cheats, the brakes are
like Col. Stapp's rocket sled--you must be pulling 30 G's!

Yeah, too bad abt. RC Xtreme. I too was hoping they'd just put a polish on
RC and update the cars, but, like Comanche 3 to 4, they effing *ruined* it!

--Steve

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