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Troy

It makes my job in catching him a bit harder, but I'll get him anyway!

Yes. I hope Eldred does not mind, but I too have set him as a target.
Latest I've checked we are in the same second in 6 of the tracks.
I still need to improve at Glen, Silverstone and Zandvoort (this is going to
be a tough one).
And of course at the Ring, but that's another story.

Last nigth I got over 6secs from my previous pb at Spa!
I did not change my setup, but just drove faster :) which I honestly did not
think
was possible, but those replay comparing utilities are just unbelievable!

Cheers.

Jyrki Laine
GPLRank 102.23 (still needs looots of work...)
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And perhaps it would be better to refer of Eldred as a "benchmark" rather than a
target (sounds less like we are gunning for him).

Keep up the good work Eldred, like it or not you are gathering quite a few
followers.

Ken MacKay
Halifax, Canada
GPL Handicap +111.61

This was the point for me also.
I have a 9:28.xx my current pb, but it includes a major offroad excursion.
If I try not to spin, I end up with 10:0x:xx.
Well its all just lack of practice and remembering the turns.
It just takes time.

Same here. I've managed to negotiate one whole weekend for this purpose :)
(Wife is travelling then and takes our daughter also, so the Track will be
all mine...
The pb:s will be dropping like flies at that time.)

Agreed.

Jyrki Laine
GPLRank 102.23 (No improvements lately :( )
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Sorry, I totally screwed the quoting in my earlier post.

Sorry again... (goes quietly to the corner to read netiquette.)

Jyrki Laine
GPLRank 102.23 (No improvements lately :( )
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You guys are gonna have it easy.  Except for Nurburgring, I've hit a wall at
all the tracks.  I haven't figured out how to go faster, no matter HOW many
laps I do... :(
I can't even get CLOSE to my PBs right now...

Eldred
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Eldred
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Oh, and who hasn't hit a wall (or armco or tree or...) at all of the tracks <g>

Ken MacKay
Halifax, Canada
GPL Handicap +111.61

If that's the case, it's probably time to put it down for a while.  I was
driving REALLY badly a few weeks back so I put my wheel in the closet and
didn't play for two weeks.  When I eventually played again I beat 3 of my
PBs in one night.  Sometimes it helps to give yourself a break and get out
the rut that you're in.  When you start back again, it's easy to see where
you were making mistakes that you didn't notice before.

Cheers,
...Colin

Cheers and keep driving. You have the dubious distinction of being an
inspriation to all us slowpokes :-)

PS. If you stop hitting walls you may pick up a little speed :-P

"9:00.60 <sigh>"? Don't you mean <yipee>
I try (impossible) to think about how well i hit one, two or three
particular corners or sequences and then just concentrating on line
for the rest of the lap.  If you concentrate too much on lap time you
end up driving like a banshee at the start and then slowly getting
tentative (which can kill you as you oversteer into a corner cuz you
are used to hitting it 10mph faster) for the rest of the lap to make
good on your successful jump off the flugplatz.

Of course I totally suck (er, I mean I am still learning) so any
advice from me should be absolutely and without reservation ignored.

Chris Hansen
(who has begun taking a picnic basket on his laps around the ring)

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I hadn't actually thought of using an oval track to practice.  I think I tried
it once, just as an experiment, though.  Kept spinning out...and got fed up.

Eldred
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Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
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Andrew

Andrew