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Are hotlappers really crashers?

Rikanthr

Are hotlappers really crashers?

by Rikanthr » Sat, 18 Sep 1999 04:00:00

To me the fastest guy is the guy who holds
the fasted racelap. I would extend that to qualifying if somehow the game
wouldn't give you an instant repair by quitting to the pits. In fact that
honour probably goes to Wolfgang as well, further proving your point. So
there you go. ;-))

What did this "Wolfgang" guy do?
Did he cheat?
Rik Anthrax
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Stephen Barnet

Are hotlappers really crashers?

by Stephen Barnet » Sat, 18 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Surely the fastest person is the one who can do the fastest race (distance),
not one who can stick a 'qualifying' lap in once the fuel load has gone
down. I think it would stick in everyones throat if the chap who may finish
last, gets the adulation over and above the race winner?
Steve


Neil Rain

Are hotlappers really crashers?

by Neil Rain » Sat, 18 Sep 1999 04:00:00


> To me the fastest guy is the guy who holds
> the fasted racelap. I would extend that to qualifying if somehow the game
> wouldn't give you an instant repair by quitting to the pits. In fact that
> honour probably goes to Wolfgang as well, further proving your point. So
> there you go. ;-))

Almost but not quite true!

Greger Huttu just won the first GPL Champions League, with Wolfgang in
second place and Ian Lake third.

This has to be the ultimate GPL series, and the hotlap chart has played
a big part in its success because it's used as prequalifying for the
races.

Check out Schubi's site at
http://216.13.117.36/~schubi/championsleague/WM.htm if you want to find
out who are the world's best GPL drivers.

Jan Verschuere

Are hotlappers really crashers?

by Jan Verschuere » Sat, 18 Sep 1999 04:00:00

No, he just goes around GPL tracks fast and came 2nd in that Champions
series thingy, I
think.

Jan.
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Eldre

Are hotlappers really crashers?

by Eldre » Mon, 20 Sep 1999 04:00:00


Ian, I couldn't even do TWO laps in that time...
<g>

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Jussi Kaski

Are hotlappers really crashers?

by Jussi Kaski » Mon, 20 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Jan, you have good points and you are right in that there is no
real-life equivalent for hotlapping, but I have no problems with
that. This is a sim after all, not the real thing: no computer
imitation can be (until the Matrix, of course :).

Hotlapping is just a very natural way to compete with
a sim, because it is the simplest way to rank a huge number
of drivers from around the world. I think hotlapping is a different
sport from normal sim-racing, where different rules apply and
partly different people take part in.

I do agree with you also that the fastest drivers in the world
are not necessarily the ones on top of the hotlap charts, but
at the moment it sure seems so! ;)

But I wasn't going to start defending hotlapping as a valid
sport or anything, I was originally just trying to say that
the image of a constantly crashing, unreliable hotlapper is
wrong.

Happy racing,
Jussi



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