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by **pdot..** » Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:29:34

Anyone else tried this? The Cobra is practically undriveable, but
loads of fun. The Daytona is easier to drive and will lay down a
faster lap for me.

This is the closest thing to GPL I've found. 60's cars with loads of
HP and no downforce. Turning laps at Mosport last night especially
brought back all those GPL memories! :)

Pat Dotson

by **Mr. Sylvestr** » Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:06:34

> Anyone else tried this? The Cobra is practically undriveable, but
> loads of fun. The Daytona is easier to drive and will lay down a
> faster lap for me.

> This is the closest thing to GPL I've found. 60's cars with loads of
> HP and no downforce. Turning laps at Mosport last night especially
> brought back all those GPL memories! :)

I second that. That mod is very different from the other rFactor mods
and there is indeed some GPL flavour to it. I found the whole batch of
cars undriveable at first but watching replays it was clear that my
corner entry velocity was much higher than I thought (maybe the in-car
engine sounds are misleading ?). After adjusting my driving -slow on
entry, fast on exit- I now enjoy the GTO, the Alfa and the Daytona a
lot. The Cobra, well, that's another story...

Mr. S.

by **pdot..** » Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:52:49

>I found the whole batch of
> cars undriveable at first but watching replays it was clear that my
> corner entry velocity was much higher than I thought (maybe the in-car
> engine sounds are misleading ?). After adjusting my driving -slow on
> entry, fast on exit- I now enjoy the GTO, the Alfa and the Daytona a
> lot. The Cobra, well, that's another story...

I find that downshifting through the gears allows me to better judge
the decreasing rate of speed by listening to the pitch of the RPM in
each gear. That makes it easier to decelerate to the right entry
speed. That may seem like a no-brainer, but I was trying to shortcut
the up-shifting process because of the added workload of operating the
G25 H-shifter. I tried leaving the car in neutral during braking, and
also tried delaying the upshift until I'd fully decelerated. Neither
approach worked very well.

I've developed some very tame setups for the Daytona and GTO. They are
actually easy to drive now - probably even easier than any GPL car.
The Cobra seems unfinished in that the available setup parameters are
few, and the range provided in the setup options that are present is
too small to allow for a stable setup. The Cobra setup options don't
seem realistic or complete, but maybe they are.

The Daytona Cobra still seems fastest by far. I was able to do a
1:26.9 at Mosport in the DCobra, but only managed 1:29's in the GTO.
The regular Cobra would probably be fastest if it wasn't so unstable
that you have to tiptoe it around the track!

Pat Dotson

by **jason moye** » Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:28:39

> Anyone else tried this? The Cobra is practically undriveable, but
> loads of fun. The Daytona is easier to drive and will lay down a
> faster lap for me.

> This is the closest thing to GPL I've found. 60's cars with loads of
> HP and no downforce. Turning laps at Mosport last night especially
> brought back all those GPL memories! :)

It's no GTL!

by **pdot..** » Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:09:12

> > This is the closest thing to GPL I've found. 60's cars with loads of
> > HP and no downforce. Turning laps at Mosport last night especially
> > brought back all those GPL memories! :)

> It's no GTL!

Yea, but you can race it online! :)

by **Ed Medli** » Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:08:43

The Cobra (AC Cobra) WAS almost impossible to drive compared to some of the
other cars in that era.....:-) You need to be especially easy on the
throttle and ease into it especially when shifting.

Ed

by **pdot..** » Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:03:26

> Anyone else tried this?

There was plenty of 60's racing over the weekend. It has dried up
already. There haven't been any populated races the last couple of
nights.

So what did I do? I finally dl'd the F1 1979 demo think I could run
that online. Well... that one has dried up too. I haven't found any
'79 races online in the last two nights. There used to be several well
attended races running all the time.

I ended up racing offline. F1'79 at Mosport, then Cobra Daytona's at
Sebring. It was fun :)

Pat Dotson

by **Dave** » Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:32:55

I think the full version is going to be released very soon.

--
David G Fisher

>> Anyone else tried this?

> There was plenty of 60's racing over the weekend. It has dried up
> already. There haven't been any populated races the last couple of
> nights.

> So what did I do? I finally dl'd the F1 1979 demo think I could run
> that online. Well... that one has dried up too. I haven't found any
> '79 races online in the last two nights. There used to be several well
> attended races running all the time.

> I ended up racing offline. F1'79 at Mosport, then Cobra Daytona's at
> Sebring. It was fun :)

> Pat Dotson

by **Andre Warring** » Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:12:11

>I think the full version is going to be released very soon.

Friend of mine told me there was a problem with the 60's mod (the guy
who made it used stuff from other people, got people pissed and he
quit the project).
Do you know anything about that?

Cheers
Andre

by **Daru** » Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:45:24

> >I think the full version is going to be released very soon.Friend of mine told me there was a problem with the 60's mod (the guy
> who made it used stuff from other people, got people pissed and he
> quit the project).
> Do you know anything about that?

> Cheers
> Andre

I beleive that was the GPL --> rFactor mod. A lot of the GPLEA eye
candy was converted over to rF and a huge fight erupted. End result was
the demo was pulled and the author (Slimjim) has quit rF work.

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