Hey lucky that Schuey saw you....you know how he likes to run people
off....sounds like a great race. This sim keeps offering little
tidbits up to impress....details...its all in the details.
Pierre
Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Infamous
Pink Flamingo Pilot...
The thing with the fuel is that they added 22 litres to the fuel you
already had, not a total of 22l. So, you must have had around 20l of
fuel as you went into the pits.
Tony
Hi Richard,
What a great race both must have been!..Wish I was there, as it sounds
as though the random-breakdown model is alive and well! =)
Cheers!
Marc
> WOW!
> I just finished a 100% race at Interlagos? (2nd one in season) and won.
> What I went through was amazing.
> I had set my pitstops to be on lap 23 and 43 ish. I saved the game in
> the pit lane at my first stop.
> I was going great, in the lead, until lap 41, when I noticed that I
> couldnt light all the lights in 5th gear. Odd, I thought, no next time
> round I wathed more closely - yup, looks like a problem, I wonder if
> it's a bug. Then on lap 43 I accelerated away from the 1st corner combo,
> and suddenly BOOM! - loads of smoke, and Wallace informs me that "the
> engine has exploded"....ahhh, so that was it!
> A couple of hours later I wanted to play again - the a thought struck
> me. In GP2 it decides what's going to happen at the beginning of the
> race, but what about F1RS. Could I change what happened?
> So I reloaded my save from the first pitstop to see if I could make the
> engine blow later in the race. I drove VERY carefully, making sure that
> no lights came on, watching out for overrevving under braking, and
> acceleration.
> Lap 41 - no problem...lap 42 - still ok...lap 43 - no, OK pit stop time.
> I pitted and carried on driving carefully. After a while I got bored and
> decided to go for it a bit more.
> Now...14 laps from the end - I'm leading - not long to go - HANG ON! 22
> litres of fuel, 1.96 litres per lap, oh no!
> A this point I realised that my careful driving had meant more time with
> a WOT, which meant I used up my fuel quicker. So now I'm driving to
> coneserve fuel. 1.6? litres/lap...1.54 l/l - that's better.
> The next thing...a Ferrari all over me - damn, Schumacher's ,caught me.
> A quick look 16.? litres of fuel, 8 laps to go, LET'S GO!
> What a race! I just had to tell someone 8-)
> --
> Cheers,
> Richard.
> Richard UNDERSCORE Beckett AT ecid DOT cig DOT mot DOT com
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