even later cars slid(drifted) alot...remember Villeneuve '79, zandvoort?
Sudesh
> The biggest and really only reason why I didn't stay with GPL longer is
> because when I watched video of the real '67 F1 cars (and even older cars),
> they didn't slide like they do in GPL. Even in the rain, the drivers seemed
> to be able to hold the drive line. The AI cars in GPL resemble what I've
> seen on TV.
> David G Fisher
> > This is a bit of a stretch...but....
> > I watched the Speedvision special called "Victory by Design" which is
> > essentially a fluff piece by Alan DeCadney about all the various Porche
> > racing cars. (he also did one on Ferrari...lucky sot...gets to drive
> > dozens of Prancing Ponies and Stuttgarde vondercars)
> > Anyhow, the show got to the part about the 917's, those glorious
> > Le Mans type racers of the eary 70's. Now I'm pretty sure they didn't
> > have ground effects yet...and one of it's drivers(Brian Redman) was
> > quoted in a magazine saying the 917 was a HUGELY unstable racer...fast
> > but twitchy...hmmm where was I? OH yes...917's and why GPL cars did
> > indeed slide.
> > They showed some footage of the 917 going up through Eau Rouge at Spa.
> > on one paticular lap the driver had the car sliding all the way up the
> > hill, he only caught it just before the track turned back to the left at
> > the top. Now this 917 had an aerodynamic nose which had to produce SOME
> > sort of downforce and a couple of horizontal tail fins on the rear.
> > These too must have contributed to the downforce effect. Yet the car
> > was sliding all the way up the hill.
> > Now if a 917 with at least some semblance of an aero package can
> > slip and slide around corners, why is it hard for some of us to beleive
> > the non-winged, non-aero'd, non-groundeffects cars of 1967 slipped all
> > over too?
> > dave henrie