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A sub 1:30 lap at Monza, 1:29:88 to be precise.

8-)

I was just getting ready to go out for my usual game of Monday night
squash (complete with a few pints afterwards!) and I had half an hour to
spare, "quick blast round Monza" I thought.

I load up GPL, jump into a pre-saved Monza game (where I've already
qualified mid pack) lose a few places at the start, (nothing unusual
there then for me!) I gradually fight my way through the backmarkers,
and I have a bit of space with no one in front of me for a while.

I put my toe down and go for it (previous to this lap I'd already done a
1:30 lap) but, its not a very clean lap, I drift wide at the Curva
Grand, I clip the left hand kerb before going under the bridge, and I
almost overcook it when exiting the Parabolioca! But amazingly I've
broke my duck and gone under 1:30

Don't you just love this program.....

8-)

8-)

*Peter* -  http://www.racesimcentral.net/~peterpc/home.html

SNIP

Mines a 1:30.02.  So near...

Got my sub 2:00 at Rouen, tho - after many, many online laps.

Cheers,

Mark
Reading, UK

Warlock!

;-)

Mark

Time, practice, confidence, knowledge of the track, knowledge of the setups
and knowledge of the car.   All those are very important in Grand Prix
Legends.  Let's understand that not everybody has the capabilities to push
those cars to the limits, it is remember a very difficult simulator.  It
took me quite time to get under 1:30 at Monza.  I've finally done it with a
Honda half a year after I got GPL, but still I was able at that time to do a
8min18second lap at the Nurburgring.

Nobody has a "problem", please...

--
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

And the reason I've enjoyed both of them so much are not necessarily from
any great in-game accomplishments, per se, but from simply finally "getting
it" when it comes to controlling the beasts featured in each sim.  Making
that chopper and those cars do *what* I want *when* I want (well, most of
the time, anyway) is enjoyment itself.  To me, simply flying and driving in
these two are a lot of fun.  I know it's nothing like the real thing, but
it's still closer than I ever hoped to be.

The rest is icing.

Jerry Morelock

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LOL!

That's -so- true.  The amount of times I've bored my wife with tales of
online races...  It's sad as hell, but when something gives such a sense of
achievement and satisfaction you feel compelled (well I do, anyway) to share.
 And she's like "Yes dear, I'm sure it's a very nice video game".

Cheers,

Mark
Reading, UK

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Before you buy.

And the reason I've enjoyed both of them so much are not necessarily from
any great in-game accomplishments, per se, but from simply finally "getting
it" when it comes to controlling the beasts featured in each sim.  Making
that chopper and those cars do *what* I want *when* I want (well, most of
the time, anyway) is enjoyment itself.  To me, simply flying and driving in
these two are a lot of fun.  I know it's nothing like the real thing, but
it's still closer than I ever hoped to be.

The rest is icing.

Jerry Morelock

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Congrats and well done.  And I bet you feel so much better than Mike who did
59:xx at WG ;-)

Andre

At last! A chance to boast about my GPL prowess. Well a little bit. I always
have been able to do
sub 1:30 at Monza fairly easily. I've always thought it was because the
track is so simple. I recommend Riccardo Nunnini's set-ups (as advertised in
this ng. Sorry, I've lost the URL) - much better for me than <heresy alert>
Alison Hine's understeering set-ups with the front end washing out all the
time. That plus the speed of the Lotus does it for me.

Now if someone can give me some pointers for breaking 3:22 at Spa.... Oh,
and 9:59.99 for the 'Ring...

Tony Whitley

Ditto here, we both know that those two sims are the best ever made (up to
now) for multiplay.

C. Giroux.

Jerry Morelock a crit dans le message :

I guess I have to change the car - if not only anybody would drive the Lotus -
sigh

Jens    

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