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Dave Pawlikowski
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" Ah, the Luftwaffe.. the Washington
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:39:31 GMT, "Dave Pawlikowski"
>http://www.cushdrive.com/F1/jv1.jpg
>http://www.cushdrive.com/F1/jv2.jpg
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>Dave Pawlikowski
>www.cushdrive.com
>www.luftwaffe-experten.com
>" Ah, the Luftwaffe.. the Washington
>Generals of the History Channel.."
> Homer Simpson
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>> "On my computer, reading a book, listening to music, playing music,
>> whatever - I can spend hours just sitting there."
>> Unfortunately, so did Minogue."
David G Fisher
> http://www.cushdrive.com/F1/jv1.jpg
> http://www.cushdrive.com/F1/jv2.jpg
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> Dave Pawlikowski
> www.cushdrive.com
> www.luftwaffe-experten.com
> " Ah, the Luftwaffe.. the Washington
> Generals of the History Channel.."
> Homer Simpson
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> > "On my computer, reading a book, listening to music, playing music,
> > whatever - I can spend hours just sitting there."
> > Unfortunately, so did Minogue."
JV was alone and lost the rear when he slammed the wall.
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Dave Pawlikowski
www.cushdrive.com
www.luftwaffe-experten.com
" Ah, the Luftwaffe.. the Washington
Generals of the History Channel.."
Homer Simpson
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" > If Montoya would learn how to drive the car he's paid to drive,
Villeneuve
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> JV was alone and lost the rear when he slammed the wall.
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You can't loose the car where he lost it. It's a straight braking zone, it
has always been. Villeneuve said he had some weird braking problems after
the incident with himself and Montoya, and was going into the pits on the
next lap.
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You'd better give him a call then, David. Judging by some of your
comments on F1RC, you're a much better driver than anyone else :-)
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Graeme Nash
With the incredible acceleration and deceleration of modern F1 cars, the
necessity to hold a perfect line, and the necessity to continually lap
within a few tenths lap after lap after lap on a road course (much easier on
an oval) a person better be at 99% or better if they don't want to CAUSE
accidents. Simple as that. When I started racing F12000CS or F1RC, and there
were accidents, I had no problem admitting here at r.a.s. that I caused most
of them after reviewing replays. Hardly something a person who thinks he's
better than everyone else would admit.
I've said before that I don't really mind that you can't have a full field
multiplayer race in F1RC or F12000CS because I don't think it's even close
to being possible to get 22 people together who could race modern F1's
without there being crashes all over the place. That's not meant as an
insult to anyone.
David G Fisher
There will always be more crashes than in a real life racing situation. An
unfortunate consequence of the spread in ability and the (latency)
conditions online racers face. Unavoidable. On the other hand no-one gets
physically hurt, repairing the virtual machinery is free and there are no
mega bucks at stake (although prestige and ego issues exist).
You might find this hard to believe, but sometimes things click and very
satisfying racing is had. Just recently I raced FV's with a small, quality
field. Pro Long at Monza, grid covered by 1.5s and for the 1st eleven laps
the top 7 stuck together and racing was as good as any non-professional,
non-factory team racing I've ever seen. Then the inevitable happened... one
driver made a small mistake. I was the following driver and didn't see it
happening (literally... the game's prediction code showed the car following
it's normal, expected trajectory) until the information finally reached me
and I suddenly found myself "right on top of him". I did manage to slow a
little, but still nudged the other car. Latency then set the collision
detection off and both cars speared off the track, being destroyed in the
proces. A 3rd driver behind had to resort to spinning in avoidance. Them's
the breaks in online racing. After that the field fragmented into a number
of one-on-one battles (as real races often do too) and that was that. Nobody
walked away bittered by the experience however. Quite the contrary, we had
all shared and exhilerating experience, regardless of whether we really are
any good or not. And you know what?? -after "a million laps" we've got
enough experience to make this sort of thing happen ever more often.
The point is with the current crop of F1 sims doesn't even allow us to try.
So as far as I'm concerned online code first, then FF, then changable
weather and tyre wear and accurate tracks and then an offcial licence. I'm
not really interested in racing an computer fascimile of famous driver X
anymore. I race people I can not only put a name and a face, but also a
personality to. People I can really pressure, or who, in return, will
chuckle when I'm pushed into a mistake.
Jan.
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