rec.autos.simulators

I'm just wondering , how good you have to be to play online ? - I wouldn't
want to spoil someone's race when they have to keep lapping me !

I've just about got to winning short races.
Watkins Glen in around 1 06 , will I be ok , or in the way ?

Cheers for any advice , Bog

Your plenty quick and it sounds like your considerate to,
go here: http://vroc.net/  do some reading, download  WinVroc and
then join us, it's WAY more fun than racing the AI.

--
Don Scurlock
Vancouver,B.C.

First and foremost: you need to drive the race distance competitively
without wrecking. Speed is secondary to finishing. :-) As to being in the
way, you don't have to be slow to be in the way. Unless you're one of the
very few and truly talented, you're likely to be slower around some corners
but faster in others. Another view is: you're *supposed* to be in the way.
Passing is part of racing, hotlapping attitudes aside.

As to being lapped, it'll happen on longer races. Just hold your line, in
control, at your best pace. Help him by being predictable, and let him worry
about how and when to do it. Lifting a little at the end of a long straight,
so you can both take the corner on line, probably should be enough, and
would hardly be measurable in your lap time.

Michael.

As long as your a clean racer, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you
are. What spoils online racing sometimes is people crashing,
specially at the start. But in general I don't have too many problems
as everyone seems to make an effort at the start nowadays.
Whatever times you're hitting there will be a match for you, for
example, if you qualify 10th in a race with a good time by your
standards, the guy in front and the one behind will be more or less in
the same situation, and that's where your race will be. whereas the
guy in 1st will probably spend the whole race defending his 1st place
until he spins, the guy ;in 2nd takes his place but gets too nervous
with the responsibility of leading a race and spins. The 3rd place,
now 1st,  makes a mistake and loses 10 secs. In the meantime you might
just be the only car that hasn't left the tarmac in some way or
another. And you might just finish 1st. It's all about finishing the
race, and having fun.  
Don't waste any time thinking about it, get online now! It's so much
fun you'll have be posting here about phone bills next!

Mauricio.

        I'll second that!  I've joined many F1 races with my F3 and won!  My
lap times were always about 10 seconds from the leader and 5 to 8
seconds from the next guy ahead of me.  But, because I tried my best to
finish, I would either come in second, or win the race.

        Fun as hell driving such a slow car and wining against such over
powered speed demons;-)

lol I think we all have been lapped at sometime

--
"To finish first, you first must finish the race"
--Mark Martin
g_major on TEN
http://drive.to/racehard (Personal Page)

Go ahead,
not to spoil others race is depending more on your attitude than on your
laptimes.

Jens

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