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Favorite N3 track?

Tim Vanhe

Favorite N3 track?

by Tim Vanhe » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I was just wondering because mine is absolutely Michigan, but I can't see it
online a lot.
Rob

Favorite N3 track?

by Rob » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I currently have 3 favourites (I don't play on-line):

Bristol because it is a rush to go so fast in so small an area
Dover because the AI seem especially smart and agressive there

And my current top track:
Phoenix! Seems like the FF is better here than anywhere - it's a real effort
to stay off the wall at speed. This track feels like a road course with no
right turns. And it seems like the car oversteers more realistically here -
get out of shape coming out of a corner and end up crashing midway down the
straight (like some drivers at Texas last Sunday!).


Kevin Anderso

Favorite N3 track?

by Kevin Anderso » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Bristol, Myrtle and Dega

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Racer8

Favorite N3 track?

by Racer8 » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Phoenix is an awesome track as are most all of the flat tracks. Took me a
long time to get the hang of Phoenix (all of N1 and probably half of N2's
life span LOL) but once I did it is by far one of  my best/favorite tracks.

I guess my overall favorite N3 track though would have to be Nashville.

All time favorite track would be Hickory.

It is a direct slap in the face to their customers that the bastages at
Havas/Sierra/Papy don't have the balls to support tracks that no longer come
with the latest release of the game.

Just one of the many reasons I will no longer support their continued
releases of N2 engine based titles.


> I currently have 3 favourites (I don't play on-line):

> Bristol because it is a rush to go so fast in so small an area
> Dover because the AI seem especially smart and agressive there

> And my current top track:
> Phoenix! Seems like the FF is better here than anywhere - it's a real
effort
> to stay off the wall at speed. This track feels like a road course with no
> right turns. And it seems like the car oversteers more realistically
here -
> get out of shape coming out of a corner and end up crashing midway down
the
> straight (like some drivers at Texas last Sunday!).



> > I was just wondering because mine is absolutely Michigan, but I can't
see
> it
> > online a lot.

Michae

Favorite N3 track?

by Michae » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Prior to N3, I loved Sears Point, but without the carosel and the hairpin,
just doesn't have any "soul" left. Lately been in a South-Boston Mode.
Hamme

Favorite N3 track?

by Hamme » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00



Pocono.  Toooooooooo fun.  Difficult with the 3 completely unique
turns, AI is fair, car setup very important.  I would love to drive
this track for real!!

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Dave Henri

Favorite N3 track?

by Dave Henri » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

  While you can't see the tracks in the racing lobbies, you can
race pretty much any track you want by using the ip address feature.
All ya have to do is announce the track and ip# and let anyone who has
it join in.  We race the ICR2/CART tracks online with the latest N3
patches.  And I'm betting, since there was a hack in the early days of
the beta patch, that allowed posting of the other tracks, it will only
be awhile before somebody hacks the last beta patch so that all the
tracks are visible again.  (just my hunch there)
dave henrie

> Phoenix is an awesome track as are most all of the flat tracks. Took me a
> long time to get the hang of Phoenix (all of N1 and probably half of N2's
> life span LOL) but once I did it is by far one of  my best/favorite tracks.

> I guess my overall favorite N3 track though would have to be Nashville.

> All time favorite track would be Hickory.

> It is a direct slap in the face to their customers that the bastages at
> Havas/Sierra/Papy don't have the balls to support tracks that no longer come
> with the latest release of the game.

> Just one of the many reasons I will no longer support their continued
> releases of N2 engine based titles.



> > I currently have 3 favourites (I don't play on-line):

> > Bristol because it is a rush to go so fast in so small an area
> > Dover because the AI seem especially smart and agressive there

> > And my current top track:
> > Phoenix! Seems like the FF is better here than anywhere - it's a real
> effort
> > to stay off the wall at speed. This track feels like a road course with no
> > right turns. And it seems like the car oversteers more realistically
> here -
> > get out of shape coming out of a corner and end up crashing midway down
> the
> > straight (like some drivers at Texas last Sunday!).



> > > I was just wondering because mine is absolutely Michigan, but I can't
> see
> > it
> > > online a lot.

Racer8

Favorite N3 track?

by Racer8 » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Yeah I know all that.
Thing is you can't tell me that the folks that own Hickory, Mesa,
Flemington, and so forth and so on give a rats ass whether we are racing
likenesses of their tracks online or not.

Hell a large number of the tracks that are filtered from the WON sewer are
still under license to Papy. The whole thing just plain stinks to me. Hell
they even filter Bull Run and Red Rock. Their OWN creations.
Of course I have a suspicion that it's an all or nothing thing the way the
filter works. So even if it wasn't an issue of legality, or whatever their
reasoning is to filter, it's still just tuff luck to us the users.


>   While you can't see the tracks in the racing lobbies, you can
> race pretty much any track you want by using the ip address feature.
> All ya have to do is announce the track and ip# and let anyone who has
> it join in.  We race the ICR2/CART tracks online with the latest N3
> patches.  And I'm betting, since there was a hack in the early days of
> the beta patch, that allowed posting of the other tracks, it will only
> be awhile before somebody hacks the last beta patch so that all the
> tracks are visible again.  (just my hunch there)
> dave henrie


> > Phoenix is an awesome track as are most all of the flat tracks. Took me
a
> > long time to get the hang of Phoenix (all of N1 and probably half of
N2's
> > life span LOL) but once I did it is by far one of  my best/favorite
tracks.

> > I guess my overall favorite N3 track though would have to be Nashville.

> > All time favorite track would be Hickory.

> > It is a direct slap in the face to their customers that the bastages at
> > Havas/Sierra/Papy don't have the balls to support tracks that no longer
come
> > with the latest release of the game.

> > Just one of the many reasons I will no longer support their continued
> > releases of N2 engine based titles.



> > > I currently have 3 favourites (I don't play on-line):

> > > Bristol because it is a rush to go so fast in so small an area
> > > Dover because the AI seem especially smart and agressive there

> > > And my current top track:
> > > Phoenix! Seems like the FF is better here than anywhere - it's a real
> > effort
> > > to stay off the wall at speed. This track feels like a road course
with no
> > > right turns. And it seems like the car oversteers more realistically
> > here -
> > > get out of shape coming out of a corner and end up crashing midway
down
> > the
> > > straight (like some drivers at Texas last Sunday!).



> > > > I was just wondering because mine is absolutely Michigan, but I
can't
> > see
> > > it
> > > > online a lot.

Rikanthr

Favorite N3 track?

by Rikanthr » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

e race the ICR2/CART tracks online with the latest N3
patches.  And I'm betting, since there was a hack in the early days of
the beta patch, that allowed posting of the other tracks, it will only
be awhile before somebody hacks the last beta patch so that all the
Please elaborate on this.
I have never heard this and find it very interesting.
Rik Anthrax
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Rikanthr

Favorite N3 track?

by Rikanthr » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Watkins Glen
Sears Point
uhhhh,
uhhh,
uhhhh......

Rik Anthrax
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Benjam

Favorite N3 track?

by Benjam » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00



Michigan is one of my favorites too - first race I ran there was with
N1 over a modem with a friend - the damn traffic was intoxicating -
turning into 3 still doing 197 so close to the car in front that all I
could see of the back was his spoiler with a car right behind me and
right beside me, staying like that all the way to turn 1, I was
instantly sold...

Can't pick ONE favorite tho' - Michigan, Sears Point (never been able
to do well, but I love it), Talladega, Milwaukee sweet Milwaukee, Mesa
Marin (rowdy as hell and reminds me of my local track), Bristol,
absolutely love Bull Run (not a real track but it should be), I hated
the N1 version but ever since N2/99 I've really grown fond of N.
Wilkesboro, ohhhhh POcono, heartbreaker C***te, I royally enjoyed
the old Atlanta (wish they had left it alone...), and although they're
not N3 or even N for that matter Laguna Seca and Cleveland in stock
cars just does something to me...

Phillip Malphrus, Jr

Favorite N3 track?

by Phillip Malphrus, Jr » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Darlington


Don Hancock (

Favorite N3 track?

by Don Hancock ( » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00


    Man, I HATE Darlington!!! Couldn't wait for my AI race to be over in my
season.  I ran 25% and was "only" 3 or 4 laps down at the end.  Really
kicked my ass, it did!! lol.

    My fav's Daytona.  I run well and qual well there.  Bristol's "fun" but
it's not my favorite to run.

Gunner

Kirk Lan

Favorite N3 track?

by Kirk Lan » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Well, considering how similar NL is to N3...

My favorite track is Ontario in NL, followed by Indy in N3, and then each
track in the opposite sim...then Dega in NL, but N3 Dega is waaay down
because it doesn't have the 20-lap-gotta-pit-or-die thing...I like having a
36 lap race be a one-stopper but a 43 lap race absolutely necessitating two
stops :)

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Racer8

Favorite N3 track?

by Racer8 » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Gotta go faster than you would ever think you could possibly go there.
Barely lift into 1 and enter down low. Right along the left edge of the
"groove".
Timing the braking point in 3 is critical too. Brake hard that little patch
of what looks like armco in the outside wall gets about the center of your
windshield. Gotta time it to where you catch that bump just right.

Try to hold around 165 in 1-2 and 145 in 3-4 for starters. Then start
working towards 170 on the big end and 150 or so on the little end.

Going to slow is death at Darlington. Took me a long time to figure that
out. It really is a fun track once you get the hang of it.





> >Darlington

>     Man, I HATE Darlington!!! Couldn't wait for my AI race to be over in
my
> season.  I ran 25% and was "only" 3 or 4 laps down at the end.  Really
> kicked my ass, it did!! lol.

>     My fav's Daytona.  I run well and qual well there.  Bristol's "fun"
but
> it's not my favorite to run.

> Gunner


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