rec.autos.simulators

Ray Ko
School of Information Science, University of Portsmouth (UK)

Simple, just ram the computer cars!

        Patrick

Ray Ko
School of Information Science, University of Portsmouth (UK)
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PL>>> Are you getting bored of F1GP, and eagerly awaiting F1GP2? If so
PL>>> try this to revive your interest (for about 5 minutes anyway!!)

PL>>> Remember last years F1 season when Schumacher (Booo) drove most
PL>>> a race with only one gear (5th i think)? Now you to can emulate
PL>>> this achievement.

Since the computer cars are such rolling roadblocks at Monaco, I would
set up my car so that it would only have 2nd through 5th gears...it
helped to equalize things a bit. And woe be it if you actually tried
to select 1st or 6th...I had 1st all the way to the left of the graph
and 6th all the way to the right.                                                                  

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Hey, I emulated Senna's crash at Tamburello and man, from the***pit of the car behind it looks so
real that It's frightening !
Everytime I replay it, a shiver goes down my spine...

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Does your car really jump at these two locations? I guess that's what the
original poster meant. I'm not sure what you mean, perhaps 'simple' short-
cutting the corners? The chicane at Monza can be taken in sixth, losing
about 5-10 mph if done well and almost no speed if you do it perfectly.
However I've been really 'flying' in my car when I drove _in the wrong
direction_ at the chicane at Monza! The car was forced into the first curve
(steering help) because I didn't hit the right angle, bumped into the curb
at some 200 mph, was lifted into the air and flew quite over the whole chicane
complex and a piece of straight track, but then crashed into the right wall
(seen against racing direction). What a pity you can't save in simple practise!
What I noticed is that F1GP doesn't seem to handle flying in a very 'realistic'
way ;-) it's a mere vertical lifting of the car while it remains horizontal.
(Not that I expected a real crash simulation <g> - perhaps in F1GP2?)

Monza is also the only track where I have been able to do _quicker_ laps
driving in the wrong direction (using shortcuts but no bhp cheating), about
one to three seconds less. The crucial point is the chicane after the double
chicane where you normally have to brake down to 2nd/3rd gear, it's possible
to do it in 5th or even 6th the other way round. Maybe it's possible to go
quicker on other tracks too, but you'll need a joystick/wheel with steering aid
switched off.

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Two spring to mind. The first is the first gear chicane at Imola - you
can brake down from sixth to get it pointing in the right direction and
then take the corner in fifth.
The second is the chicane complex at Monza after the start-finish
straight. This one tends to require some luck, but you can sometimes exit
in fifth.

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Richard C A Cullen                  |  Postgraduate Student

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try reversing all your gear ratios so that you start in sixth gear
about 11 and end up in first about5 (at hochenheim)
So you down change up the straight and up change into the corners

        Patrick

If you crash right (hit the wall between the start/finish straight and
the pit lane) you get airbourne and land on the other side of the wall!

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