Chris
-Jan Otto
I agree. Be it right or wrong, I feel as if I would have better on-the-
edge control skills with my car on the road, if it ever got to that,
because of GPL. Unfortunately, I use left-foot-braking in GPL and that
is impossible for me in my real car. I can't approach duplicating my
GPL throttle and brake control if I only use my right foot for both
brake and throttle. I use both at once in GPL to control my mid-corner
car attitude. Also, my car is front wheel drive and the limit
charactaristics are substantially different than a rear wheel drive car.
-Chris-
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Before you buy.
I have found that knowing what the car is doing when the 'normal'
(putt-putt) weight transition is replaced by say.. having the rear end begin
to lose traction allowed me to make a few tiny little adjustments with the
throttle and steering to smoothly finish a corner. Or two. It also became
obvious that front-engine cars handle very differently than the
sim-rear-engine models do. =)
A safety caveat: I had plenty of runoff area. Traffic was very light (Anyone
in Arizona can attest to empty highways and roads) and I was only
approaching the adhesion limits of the car. I was not on the edge. The added
control I'd learned from the game (where I did have [shift-R]) kept it that
way.
Happy motoring!
Mikey
What I think happened was that GPL has reinforced some of the fundamental
techniques necessary to balance. How often do you spin on the public
roadway, or even the racetrack for that matter? GPL gives good, inexpensive
spin practice. But more over I think it's just conditioning. The first thing
I learned about going quickly (and surviving it) was to remain calm. A
driver who panics is a driver headed for a tree. GPL has given me more seat
time. That leads to comfort and confidence.
--
Mark Jeangerard
www.soundchaserweb.com
New Mexico USA
People also have not mentioned that GPL or other racing sims are normally
the only place where somebody will be able to push a car to it's limit. In
your normal life car driving, you do not hopefully push it to the limit.
You can try once, but I doubt we aren't all driving our roads at 120+mph all
the time ;)
Which means that it gives us the experience of being at the edge. When such
a situation happens in real-life, our experience will help us to do the
correct reaction.
--
-- 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."
Rik, you have to be kidding me... TOCA2 has horrible physics IMHO. There's no
warning you're about to lose tire adhesion. You just suddenly go flying off
into the wall.
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
http://simcrashes.cjb.net
Jon
I've noticed this too, but it has been helped with the use of a force
feedback controller, because you can 'feel' the car sliding before you
see it.
I stand by my opinion that the physics of TOCA 1 and 2 really don't
live up to much. I'm interested in seeing what differences they've
made with the engine in TOCA 3.
Neo
