just a case of its wet or its dry its totally realistic the rain can
start on one side of the track, it gets a little damp the rain stops
you come in for your pit stop what do you do ? what do you do ??
Grooves ? It's not raining that hard - But the track is getting wetter
the weather forcast said a 40% chance of light rain half an hour into
the race and 10% chance of medium rain
Wets ? ? It's not raining that hard - But the track is getting wetter
the weather forcast said a 40% chance of light rain half an hour into
the race and 10% chance of medium rain
This feature really advances racing sims. I've not felt like this
racing any other game. The level of decision making just changed in
sims.
I believe now that GPL is the best car simulator but GP3 is the best
racing simulator.
Regards Mike
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:40:04 -0500, rrevved
>I may d/l this thing and if it is as good as it sounds, I will place my order!
>http://www.racesimcentral.net/
>jeda
>Top Driver
>Posts: 113
>Registered: Mar 2000
>posted July 23, 2000 13:37
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>Hi all,
>I just finished my first 100% race distance Grand Prix at Spa. I had
>raced a few quickrace before, but never longer than about 10 laps. I
>race without using driving aids, but have set the difficulty level to
>Amateur. I also use the default carsetup, which isnt that bad for Spa.
>The weather was looking good, all friday and saturday session were
>dry, I did quite well and qualified on pole (rember: amateur level).
>During warmup I did some long runs to see how the tyrewear was, but
>1/2 hour is very short to do some real testing. After the warmup
>session I decided to go for a two stopstrategy because I was about two
>sec faster than the rest of the field.
>Before the race I cheked the weather-report screen: Rain was expected!
>There was an 80% change of rain after about 20 minutes. I thought,
>well, will see about that later! This was my first big mistake!
>I had to much wheelspin at the start and lost 1 position to Mika, but
>was able to overtake him the next lap at La Source hairpin. After
>that, everything looked good for me, I was about 1,5 secs a lap faster
>than Mika and was starting to create a gap. I was hoping that the gap
>would be about 15-20 sec when I had to make my first planned stop at
>lap 15.
>But than things started to look bad :-( The clouds were getting darker
>and at lap 11 it started to rain. BUT it only rained at the back of
>the track, s/f was completely dry! The gap I had to Mika was about 12
>sec at that point and it started to decrease with about 1 sec a lap!
>The weather was also getting worse at the back part of the track, at
>s/f it was still sunny. At lap 14 my pitstop light flashed on at my
>dash. I really started to panic, my gap was decreasing, the weather
>looked unpredictable and my setup was terrible on the wet parts of the
>track. I than hit the enter key because I wanted to wait another lap
>to see what the wheater was doing (I had still fuel for about 3 laps).
>As the weather was getting worse and worse at the back part of the
>track, so was my gap, only 5 secs left.
>In lap 18 I had to pit because I hadnt enough fuel for another lap.
>Because only the half of the track was wet I decided to cgange to
>intermediates. Again, a bad choice. When I left the pit I was in 3rd
>position, and after 3 laps I realised my mistake: It was starting to
>rain all over the track. Immediatly a lot of AI cars went to the pit.
>Because I had just made my stop, I wouldnt want to lose another 30sec
>witn another stop to get wettyres (obviously another mistake). After
>strugling for about another 8 laps (i didnt lose any positions, but I
>wasnt quicker than Schumi who was 2nd) it stopped raining. My
>intermediate tyres started to work :-).
>In lap 28 a dry line showed up and with only 2 laps to go for my
>second stop I wasnt sure what to do. Once again I decide to stay out
>as long as possible. Then I remembered something from real F1 races:
>Cooling your tyres by driving through wet spots on the track. It tried
>it on the straights and saw in my mirrors the waterspray of my tyres,
>which wasnt there when I drove on the dry raceline. Almost immediately
>my laptimes improved! I was so exited that I almost forgot about my
>second pitstop.
>At my second stop I decided to go back to normal, dry weather tyres.
>From that point everything started to look better. Schumi had a lead
>of 23sec and Irvine was about 6sec behind me.
>In lap 37 I went wide at Les Combes and got of the dryline in the wet.
>I lost all grip and immediately spun off the track! Irvine passed me
>and when I was back on the track he had al lead of 7sec.
>But in the dry I was a lot faster and with only 3 laps to go I was
>able to pass him.
>Because I was so exited I spun in the last lap and Irvine passed me
>again :-(
>I finished 4th, Mika 1st and Schumi 2nd.
>After the race I was think about what went wrong:
>1. I had the wrong car setup. After the weather predictions I should
>have opted for an intermediate setup.
>2. I had not flexibilty in my stategy at all, next race I will try to
>take enough fuel for at least 50% race distance.
>3. I waited too long to change to intermediates, or I had to wait
>longer and change to wets.
>I really enjoyed this race, it was my best race ever (including VROC
>GPL races which are great too). I think GP3 is the first real complete
>F1 simulator, and not just a race simulator as GPL is. Being able do
>do some quicklaps is not enough to be succesfull in GP3. You really
>have to think about your strategy! This is what I miss in GPL and
>other sims.
>Cheers,
>JeDa