rec.autos.simulators

>I saw a month back or so, that someone had posted information about a
>movie/documentary on the 1967 Grand Prix cars.
>If anyone has any information on where I might be able to find some good
>info, it would be appreciated.  I would like to watch a race from that year
>to see for myself if they had to drive the cars to the same edge of control
>that I'm having to in the GPL SIM to get good speeds.

>Thanks,

> I saw James Gardner on Speedvision and he was narrating a sport car racing
> serial in the 1969-70 era and they had a crude in-car camera.  They
> basically were crashing every lap if you know what I mean.  To drive
> anything fast in that period seemed to be on the very, very ragged edge.  I
> have so many hours in GPL at each track that I have learn to just float the
> car.  I worked the setup to get what I want and my lap replays are faster
> than the Pappy boys and way smoother.  No doubt, I am busy with the steering
> wheel, but I drive the car like I would in real life.  The Speedvision show
> I saw confirmed that GPL and real life are fairly close in some respects but
> in order to be total "real life" the sim needs to "slow down" a tad.  The
> other problem is that we are missing the seat of the pants feel for the car.
> In computer life, we react visually, and that is what give us the ragged
> edge driving sensation in GPL.  In others words, by driving visually, we are
> tad behind the eight ball.  In real life, our butts are the best processor
> God gave us for as countering g forces in the seating position. Keep at it
> and work those setups. A good driving wheel helps too.  I have an ECCI CDS2R
> system modified to be similar to the CDS 4000.  I don't know how anyone can
> drive GPL with a Thrustmaster product.  Your seating ergonomics is very
> important too.  My seat height/pedal location and steering position are
> exactly like Dale Earnhardt's  cars.  I used one of his to get the
> measurements.  The bottom line to your post is that GPL is hard.  So is ICR2
> at 100 percent driver strength.
> Checker Flags,
> Rush

> >I saw a month back or so, that someone had posted information about a
> >movie/documentary on the 1967 Grand Prix cars.
> >If anyone has any information on where I might be able to find some good
> >info, it would be appreciated.  I would like to watch a race from that year
> >to see for myself if they had to drive the cars to the same edge of control
> >that I'm having to in the GPL SIM to get good speeds.

> >Thanks,

>I regularly kick my friends ***and he uses an ecci wheel versus my poor
little
>nascar pro... boo hoo... and I drive icr2 anywhere from 101 to 107% and
still
>win.

>> I saw James Gardner on Speedvision and he was narrating a sport car
racing
>> serial in the 1969-70 era and they had a crude in-car camera.  They
>> basically were crashing every lap if you know what I mean.  To drive
>> anything fast in that period seemed to be on the very, very ragged edge.
I
>> have so many hours in GPL at each track that I have learn to just float
the
>> car.  I worked the setup to get what I want and my lap replays are faster
>> than the Pappy boys and way smoother.  No doubt, I am busy with the
steering
>> wheel, but I drive the car like I would in real life.  The Speedvision
show
>> I saw confirmed that GPL and real life are fairly close in some respects
but
>> in order to be total "real life" the sim needs to "slow down" a tad.  The
>> other problem is that we are missing the seat of the pants feel for the
car.
>> In computer life, we react visually, and that is what give us the ragged
>> edge driving sensation in GPL.  In others words, by driving visually, we
are
>> tad behind the eight ball.  In real life, our butts are the best
processor
>> God gave us for as countering g forces in the seating position. Keep at
it
>> and work those setups. A good driving wheel helps too.  I have an ECCI
CDS2R
>> system modified to be similar to the CDS 4000.  I don't know how anyone
can
>> drive GPL with a Thrustmaster product.  Your seating ergonomics is very
>> important too.  My seat height/pedal location and steering position are
>> exactly like Dale Earnhardt's  cars.  I used one of his to get the
>> measurements.  The bottom line to your post is that GPL is hard.  So is
ICR2
>> at 100 percent driver strength.
>> Checker Flags,
>> Rush

>> >I saw a month back or so, that someone had posted information about a
>> >movie/documentary on the 1967 Grand Prix cars.
>> >If anyone has any information on where I might be able to find some good
>> >info, it would be appreciated.  I would like to watch a race from that
year
>> >to see for myself if they had to drive the cars to the same edge of
control
>> >that I'm having to in the GPL SIM to get good speeds.

>> >Thanks,