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by **Steve Garrot** » Fri, 01 Jun 2001 23:21:19

Try the Honda! It may have a chance here!

SLG

>Jeez!

>196mph in a Ferrari w/o drafting! Not only is this track beautiful in
>the extreme (I can't run the normal one fast enough on Voodoo 2s, but I
>did load it and had a good look...=8^0...) and historically accurate,
>it's a hoot! I'm supposed to be practicing FG at Monte Carlo and here I
>am going -fast- and grinning.

>Thank you gentlemen. A noble effort.

>J. P. Hovercraft

>> http://www.racesimcentral.net/~w-36707/sarthe

>> Many thanks to Roeland et all!

>> Cheers,

>> Andy

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by **Tony Whitle** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 02:31:46

debris (it's a French word, for once you cannot blame the English for the
spelling :-)

Eldred was talking about Spa rather than Le Mans.

> Thomas
> PS: I know what you mean about totally shattering the car to a subatomic
> stage.
> "EldredP" wrote...

> > >"GBB" wrote...
> > >> Wow that is one long straight I drank whole cup of coffee while going
> down
> > >> it at 200mph :-)
> > >I spilt mine when I went on the grass at the kink, still doing 200mph!

> > >Great to see another circuit like Spa, where I (just) have enough time
> > >between bends to remember how I***ed up the next one last time...

> > That makes it WORSE. By the time I get to that turn again, I've
forgotten
> what
> > line I'm *supposed* to take. Red metal all over the Belgian
> countryside...<g>

> > Eldred
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> > Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001
> > Homepage - http://www.racesimcentral.net/~epickett
> > F1 hcp. +24.63...F2 +151.26...

> > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats
> you
> > with experience...
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by **Eldre** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 03:40:54

I got the Honda up to about 198 when I checked. I'm sure there's people much
higher.

Eldred
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by **Eldre** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 03:40:54

>Wow Eldred - that is truly amazing. Do you claim that you can actually have
>debree (how do you spell that) flying all the way to belgium. That's gotta
>be a record. That's like 150 miles. :-)
>Thomas

Hey, when you're good, you're good...<g> I was referring to Spa, though, not
LeMans...

Ooh...flashbacks. I destroyed a FEW cars at LeMans last night. Those f'king
turns sneak up on you, I tell ya...
"What's that - a turn? Yes it >CRASH!<
...is..."
<sigh>

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by **Marc Fraio** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 02:35:07

I've had it up to 201 without a draft. Lost 3mph through the kink,
then *just* got back to 201 again before braking for Mulsanne. But,
the other half of the course is still important. Maybe it's the driver,
but people online last night were getting the Ferrari around the circuit
5 or 6 seconds faster than I was doing in Honda. I hope to try all the
cars sooner or later, to see how the fast vs. slow sections balance out.

I actually won a race in the Honda last night, but it was admittedly
against a considerably less-than-full field. :)

Marc

by **Peter Ive** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 06:05:22

>lol - you do that too? It was strange at first, 'cos I had to pick up the cup
>in my left hand so I was free to change gear :)

Wow, never has driving in a straight line had me grinning so much!!! :)

Also, just had my weirdest of weird crashes there. In 4th gear
somewhere out on the back of the circuit after the Mulsanne and lost it
going through a twisty section and hit a haybale. Spun across track and
into the trees. Car then proceeds to spin 'in the trees' end over end
until it finally pops out the top of them after about 30 - 40 seconds
heading skywards. Comes down, bounces and then back up above tree
height for a few more spins until it comes down and rests on the grassy
bank.

Whole thing took just under a minute and I counted about 190 spins give
or take. Decided to record THAT ONE!! :)

>> Wow that is one long straight I drank whole cup of coffee while going down
>> it at 200mph :-)

>> > http://home.swipnet.se/~w-36707/sarthe

>> > Many thanks to Roeland et all!

>> > Cheers,

>> > Andy

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by **Number** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 07:03:02

Great job, wonderfull looking track!!!!!
Is there any chance we might get a version for the N3 Touring Cars?
Jan, are you listening??? *G*

--Brandon

by **Samuel Senio** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 10:01:09

On Thu, 31 May 2001 22:05:22 +0100, Peter Ives

>>> Wow that is one long straight I drank whole cup of coffee while going down
>>> it at 200mph :-)

Since I added LeMans and 3 GPLEA cars (wanted the neat dashboards)
I can't get over 185 anywhere. Used to get 198 at Spa. So I deleted
Sarthe (LeMans Light). No help. Still terminally slow, lack of power.
I run 400 Mhz w/ Voodoo2. What did I do wrong? Sam

by J » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 17:59:36

You have a LWFF?

JensSchumi

>Since I added LeMans and 3 GPLEA cars (wanted the neat dashboards)
>I can't get over 185 anywhere. Used to get 198 at Spa. So I deleted
>Sarthe (LeMans Light). No help. Still terminally slow, lack of power.
>I run 400 Mhz w/ Voodoo2. What did I do wrong? Sam

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by J » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 17:59:37

Of course,
those with the Honda engine in the Brabham chassis

JensSchumi

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by **Steve Garrot** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 22:06:30

Recalibrate your pedals and when calibrating the acellerator, don't
push it all the way down. Then it you should be able to get a higher
top end.

SLG

>On Thu, 31 May 2001 22:05:22 +0100, Peter Ives
>>>> Wow that is one long straight I drank whole cup of coffee while going down
>>>> it at 200mph :-)

>Since I added LeMans and 3 GPLEA cars (wanted the neat dashboards)
>I can't get over 185 anywhere. Used to get 198 at Spa. So I deleted
>Sarthe (LeMans Light). No help. Still terminally slow, lack of power.
>I run 400 Mhz w/ Voodoo2. What did I do wrong? Sam

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and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are
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