rec.autos.simulators

        Like everyone (or so it seems), when I first got GPL I
        didn't really like it, played a few laps and it was left
        untouched for a long time. But after a friend convinced
        me it was really a good game once you learn to drive, I
        picked it up again and started driving :)

        So a few laps in last October, then lots more during
        December and finally a few laps in January finally
        did it :) (here "few" means anything from 1 to 50).

        Thanks to Malcolm Edeson for the GPLEGS tutorial (very
        helpful!) that helped push times down quite a bit, and
        then the final information came from J. Ketola regarding
        rear-wheel drive cars and how you should handle the spin :)
        (Never driven a rear-wheel drive car in RL, so of course,
         when the car started sliding I steered to the wrong
         direction... :-)

        Now I only need to find out where the missing 87 seconds or
        so are to catch GH ... :^)

        Regards,
        TTT
        aka Kanttu Vei
        GLPrank handicap -0.05

Congrats! I just looked at your history - that's impressive going from the
60's to negative in a bit more than a month. Over the same period I went
from -3.2 to -3.47
Naw, set realistic goals: find the missing 3.5 or so seconds to catch me!
You should be able to do it in a couple of days tops ;)

Hint hint.... look behind the old dresser.
Thats where they always hide, those pesky lost seconds....
Mine have gotten smarter, the ones that got away last time must be under the
floorboards, I'm hiring a demolition team one of the next few days.

I WILL beat Huttu, even if it costs me my home to a bunch of burly men with
a wrecking ball...
and by the way, he's not a better driver than me, he's just lucky :)

Mikkel
-5.xx and still looking in the pockets of old jackets for about 85 missing
seconds

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

Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
with experience...
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grtngs,
hgrm

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

Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
with experience...
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