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GPL Championship bummer

Eldre

GPL Championship bummer

by Eldre » Sun, 04 Jun 2000 04:00:00


writes:


>> I changed the number of races to 11, so it didn't keep going.  That means
>the
>> season is over, right?  So, where's the end of the season message?

>There is no end of season message, just that the newspaper after the
>last race has the winner of the championship in the headline. Actually
>the headline will appear after the championship has been decided, so not
>necessarily after the just the last race.

>A couple of examples of how the newspaper looks:
>http://www.racesimcentral.net/~arneh/div/season1.jpg
>http://www.racesimcentral.net/~arneh/div/season2.jpg

>--
>Arne Martin

Oh, ok.  I think Clark won going away, so I may not have realized when I saw
the Championship headline...

Eldred - who needs more practice...
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Eldre

GPL Championship bummer

by Eldre » Sun, 04 Jun 2000 04:00:00



>Wait a minute here, I just finished a pro long championship series
>four days ago.  I was a Mexico with 9 points over JC, lead the race
>from the half way point till the 19th lap when my leg cramped up bad
>and I lost it just prior to the esses, spun and ended up in fourth.
>Anyway, when it was over I got a newspaper with the headline
>"Anderson: 1967 World Champion"  and the text read "Randy Anderson won
>the Championship for Drivers, after yesterdays Grand Prix at Mexico,
>overshadowing a great performance by race winnner Jim Clark."
>The one thing I may have done different is that when I would drive the
>series races I would put the original gp.ini and 67season.ini with the
>11 tracks listed in the seasons folder and rename the files with all
>the othertracks.

Mine was on the Novice level.  Maybe that has something to do with it?  I'll
try again with the original files, though...

Eldred
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Simon Goodwi

GPL Championship bummer

by Simon Goodwi » Sun, 04 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Who do you think you are? Micheal Schumaker?

Simon


> Yesterday I completed a championship in GPL for the first time. On Pro
> short level. The last race was Mexico. I was on top of the
> championshiplist, with Hill on the second spot with 3 points less.

> To make sure I would win the championship, I turned my car around,
> rammed Hill from the track so he also wouldn't get any points, and
> voila, victory was mine! :)

> But I was quite disappointed that nothing happened after I won the
> championship. I expected at least a newspaper with 'WARRINGA WINS
> WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP' or something like that. But nothing happened after
> the last race. Bummer!

> Andre

Bruce Kennewel

GPL Championship bummer

by Bruce Kennewel » Mon, 05 Jun 2000 04:00:00

He probably thinks that he's Michael Schumacher.

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Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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> Who do you think you are? Micheal Schumaker?

> Simon


> > Yesterday I completed a championship in GPL for the first time. On Pro
> > short level. The last race was Mexico. I was on top of the
> > championshiplist, with Hill on the second spot with 3 points less.

> > To make sure I would win the championship, I turned my car around,
> > rammed Hill from the track so he also wouldn't get any points, and
> > voila, victory was mine! :)

> > But I was quite disappointed that nothing happened after I won the
> > championship. I expected at least a newspaper with 'WARRINGA WINS
> > WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP' or something like that. But nothing happened after
> > the last race. Bummer!

> > Andre

Andre Warring

GPL Championship bummer

by Andre Warring » Mon, 05 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Actually I thought I was Michael Schumaker!

Andre

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 08:13:38 +1000, "Bruce Kennewell"


>He probably thinks that he's Michael Schumacher.




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