> Hi Everyone (esp the NI PC World guys who sold me my Per4mer wheel the
> other day)
> All I can say about this game is WOW!
> I have just finished the first round of a 50% Race Distance
> World Championship in Brazil and I am breathless.
> I qualified in pole, just 0.003 seconds ahead of Schumacher.
> At the start, he powered past me into the lead, but I got past him
> again at the first corner. In my mirror I could see Coulthard, where
> was Schumacher I asked myself? I paused and had a look at the replay,
> Alesi had clipped Schumacher's back wheel and he had spun out, finally
> regaining the track in 20th place!
> I lead for a couple of laps before a kerb-induced slip caused
> me to spin, getting back on the track in 5th place, with Coulthard in
> the lead followed by Hill, Alesi and Barichello. I managed to claw my
> way back to 3rd, around 6 seconds behind Hill. As we approached 1/2
> distance, a few computer cars began to go into the pits. I myself was
> on a one-stopper and so when Coulthard went in (one stopper) I
> cancelled my pit signal and stayed out for a charging lap to try to
> pull some distance up on him. I went into the pits (a 9.0 second -
> quite slow) and when I came out I was in 4th, behind Coulthard, Hill
> and SCHUMACHER!! He had worked his way through almost the entire
> field!! (Fantastic AI). On I powered and suddenly the message 'Damon
> Hill is out of the race' flashed up on screen.
> Pause...replay....Hill's engine had blown up, smoke and flames
> belching from the Williams (Murray would have had a heart attack), so
> I was in third. The gap was down to 2.5 seconds and I was catching all
> the time thanks to my Sauber's superior straight-line speed. I
> outbraked Mikey at the slow 1st gear left-hander before the
> start-finish and found myself 11 secs behind Coulthard with 11 laps
> remaining.
> The time was gradually coming down, 10 secs, 8.5, 6.7, 5,9,
> down to 4.7 with 2 laps to go. I was beginning to lose hope but then
> suddenly I saw Coulhard! He had run into a group of back-markers and
> was having trouble getting past them. We came to the Pinheirinho and
> Coulthard touched wheels with Alboretto and went onto the grass....I
> was in the lead!!
> I squeezed past the back-markers with Coulthard in my
> mirrors...then the message 'David Coulthard is in the pits' flashed up
> just as I was about to start my last lap. His car must have been
> damaged in the wheel-touch! I just had to take it easy a win the first
> round of the Championship.
> The race finished
> 1. Stephen McAuley
> 2. Jean Alesi
> 3. Michael Schumacher
> (These 2 finished about 1/2 sec apart, they must have had some
> battle!!)
> 4. Gerhard Berger
> 5. Reubens Barichello
> 6. David Coulthard
> Retirees were Hill, Katayama (shock!), Irvine, Panis + Beretta
> Post your reports too
> LONG LIVE GEOFF CRAMMOND
> IT WAS WELL WORTH THE WAIT!!
> Stephen
> Scully: Time is an universal invariant
> Mulder: Not in this zipcode
race this weekend over the modem with Mad Mikey.
We are starting at the beginning, Interlagos, too.
JEB in Vegas