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most deaths at track on GPL

rrevve

most deaths at track on GPL

by rrevve » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00


Hey Tony!! Good to see you on here... :)

As to GPL death, I have died many times at Spa...

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TRUSRS

most deaths at track on GPL

by TRUSRS » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

I myself have been killed at the chicane at Monaco, the sharp turn after the
long straight at Nurburgring, running side by side at Talladega and then flying
through the wall, drafting at Texas and then forgetting to brake or move, and I
have Barrel rolled at Road America.

Tony StewartNo

most deaths at track on GPL

by Tony StewartNo » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hello. i have a question to think about and post on this board.
ok
Whats the track you probably died the most on GPL?
hope to enjoy your answers
Bret

most deaths at track on GPL

by Bret » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Mine has to be Kayalami and the start of the front straight.  If I lose
control, it's up over the dirt bank and to those pearly white gates. :)

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-Brett
Goodbye Greg Moore 1975-1999
"I will see you at the front, and wish me luck..." - Greg Moore



Per Bostr?

most deaths at track on GPL

by Per Bostr? » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Ive never die! I seem to always be fit when next race is on.
P


GraDe

most deaths at track on GPL

by GraDe » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

well if the GPL physics allowed it, I'd have to bring a wet suit and
inflatable dingy in the car with me to Monaco:-)


Laurens de Jon

most deaths at track on GPL

by Laurens de Jon » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hello,

I always seem to wrap myself around that tree, oh dear, I'm going to have to
remember 'Ring corners now, uh, Fuchsr?hre... you know, you go up the hill,
careful not to bottom out, forget to brake and storm around the corner right
into that tree.  Always happens on my outlap.  Usually makes me decide to
try for that 8:37 lap TOMORROW.

Many, many times, though, I have killed those idiots standing on the outside
of the exit of Eau Rouge in Spa.  They keep coming back!  Urgh.

-Laurens de Jong, The Netherlands.

Schlom

most deaths at track on GPL

by Schlom » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hmm...I think im going to have to go with Zandvoort.  I hate that place.  I
always seem to slide off the track on the back section somewhere and go
bounding over the hills.  Then again my "go for broke" style of hottlapping has
gotten me GPL-killed weveral times almost everywhere.

Oh and I've run over more of those idiot spectators at the very edge of the
track more times than i care to mention.

Chris

Olav K. Malm

most deaths at track on GPL

by Olav K. Malm » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00


> Hello. i have a question to think about and post on this board.
> ok
> Whats the track you probably died the most on GPL?
> hope to enjoy your answers

Good post.

Recently I killed myself a lot practicing the Ring for the IGPLC-F3 race
yesterday. There is this damned tree in Ardenauer-Forst (sp?) and also
coming under that bridge in the lefthander at Tiergarten after the long
straight I have this habit of putting my car right in the fence. The little
bridge before the small karrusel in the righthander after the little straight
have also caused some situations that might be fatal.

The Ring..... Definately

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Rafe McAulif

most deaths at track on GPL

by Rafe McAulif » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Well I must say that, while not the most ever, that bridge at
Snetterton has taken me out many a time since I've been running it.
Always seems to be able to be taken faster, then that bridge starts
getting closer....

Rafe Mc



>Hello. i have a question to think about and post on this board.
>ok
>Whats the track you probably died the most on GPL?
>hope to enjoy your answers

Stephen Ferguso

most deaths at track on GPL

by Stephen Ferguso » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Definitely the 'Ring.  There are just so many teeth-sucking moments on that
track, usually involving lurid slides, triple digit speeds, blind crests and
the close proximity of stout foliage - all at the same time.  No other track
does that.  Most other tracks I can get away with a slide and believe it
wasn't the end of me.  Watching some of the replays from the 'Ring just make
me squint and say "ouch!" as my car hits a tree broadside, 6 feet off the
ground.

An honorable mention goes to the big stone house on the exit of the Masta
Kink.  It's the industrial powered hoover of trackside objects if you're
really going for a fast one.  Nothing quite matches that hairy moment where
you've put two wheels off, then know you've gone to far and smack it at
square on.

Honorable mention goes to Rally Championship (just to stray a little) for
those moments that make you duck down.  I sometimes lose concentration on
the co-driver, and this usually results in some air time and a quick end
against a very unyielding oak tree.  Shame the damage modelling isn't a
little less forgiving; my small reptile brain would like to see that Impreza
wrapped around the pole, just to make me a little more careful the next
time.

Stephen

Olav K. Malm

most deaths at track on GPL

by Olav K. Malm » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00


> Shame the damage modelling isn't a
> little less forgiving; my small reptile brain would like to see that Impreza
> wrapped around the pole, just to make me a little more careful the next
> time.

Maybe it is a bit tasteless, probably very sick, but I get a bit tired of
the wheel fall off damage. It would be "fun" to watch my ferrari 312 tub
get smacked into a flat pancake hitting the house on the Masta exit.

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Olav K. Malmin
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MichaelJ

most deaths at track on GPL

by MichaelJ » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00



Nurburgring - especially that bush on the right hand side of the very
fast left-hander under the bridge after the long, long straight
(Antoniusbusche?). I long for the day I can edit the track and get rid of
it!

Spa - like a lot of other people, the Masta Kink. They must have built
the houses well in those days:-)

Rouen - the trees at the left hand side of the flat-out lefthander.

..and numerous other resting places...

- Michael

Remco Moe

most deaths at track on GPL

by Remco Moe » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00


>Hello. i have a question to think about and post on this board.
>ok
>Whats the track you probably died the most on GPL?
>hope to enjoy your answers

The grid on a VROC Monza race, when surrounded by Glamourboys (tm)....

Remco

Gregor Vebl

most deaths at track on GPL

by Gregor Vebl » Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:00:00


> Hello. i have a question to think about and post on this board.
> ok
> Whats the track you probably died the most on GPL?
> hope to enjoy your answers

You've been there, you know the track and corner (the first one to
correctly identify it wins a virutal cigar!):

Braking from fifth soon after the billboard on the left, shifting to
fourth, modulating the brake pressure as going over the crest, to third,
more brake pressure again and into the lower section of the steeply
banked corner, went a bit more sideways than hoped for, clawing in all
futility for traction as the rears get over the top of the crown,
catching air, and, agin, BLAM, into the fence.

You've been there before and you know it!


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