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I would like to thank the academy... uh, anyway. I'm not really sure how
long it took to get the negative rank. I got GPL at the end of 1999 and
hotlapped for a while, but there was a long driving break during spring
and summer. Then I suddenly got involved in a league, tried out VROC and
you know the rest :) My first GPLRank entry is +109.22 from 26th
November 2000.

The end of the year was pretty good GPL-wise. There was a lot of time to
practice during the holidays, and I shaved about 7 secs off my Ring
record the day after Eldred's GP From Hell. At some point I suddenly got
a Zen-like flash of understanding on how to enter corners (mainly
turning in earlier and getting closer to the inside), which helped a
lot.

Big thanks go to the GPL Replay Analyzer team. The time difference graph
and real-time plots are wonderful for discovering bad lines. Maxx's
GPLEGS files are also dead on... I wish I had read them earlier.

My Spa, Kyalami and Ring times still aren't negative, Spa being the
hardest for me. Based on other tracks I think Kyalami will be easy if I
try it with Lotus. After these three, Papyrus Benchmark is no longer on
my buddy list. :)

Now I can concentrate on the beginning league season and... Honda. Ugh.
Anybody have good tips on how to make this thing go fast? :P

- topi
--
http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Put a lot of TNT underneath and light a match... ;-)

Cheers,

Herko

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That's unusual, actually. Try thinking of Spa as a longer and faster
version of Mosport - the tracks share the same characteristics of long,
sweeping curves and blind summits. I did this in reverse (because I found
Spa one of the easiest tracks, but Mosport much harder), and it worked
well.

--
David. (GPLRank handicap: -5.92)
The GPL Scrapyard - http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really"
- Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh.

It is getting funny;>  I have also found Spa the hardest track for me.
I always felt that those unnecessarily long straight are intended to
make me impatient. And (of course:>) I have found Mosport much
easier. Even if I mess up a corner I exit it slower, gain less speed
before the next corner, brake at my usual point (where I am usually
outbrake myself) but this time it is just perfect because I am
going a bit slowly.

Alex
(alexti)

P.S. Congratulations to Topi!

Did some Honda/Mosport practice yesterday. Every time I tweaked the
setup and drove another 4-7 laps, the lap times would gradually drop
from 1:25.xx to 1:24.0x (or 1:23 on lucky laps) and then I'd crash :)
I'll have to stop pushing it too far. The car is getting there, though -
I took Alison's setup, loosened it a bit and adjusted the gears.

Thanks.

- topi
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http://www.iki.fi/tjp/

Same here. The shortness of the Mosport track makes it easier for me to
learn and get into a rhythm than Spa.

Bobby

--
Tony Whitley
GPLRank +10.65

+Cinquo [38.43]

Interesting simile... have you been taking mind-expanding *** or is the
perpetual darkness in your part of the world getting to you :)

--
Tony Whitley
GPLRank +10.65
P.S. Oh all right, I know, you do see daylight in Helsinki.

Sometimes, but not when we're indoors wrecking Ferraris.

+Cinquo [36.xx]

Eldred
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Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999
Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73

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