rec.autos.simulators

by **eppy** » Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:55:35

This was very unexpected...

I arrive home on a Friday night after my first decent night out since I
bought RBR a few weeks ago. I've downed a beer after work, and a full bottle
of Red ('82 Chateau Latour Pauillac) at a restaurant.

So, when I get home, I thought I would try to drive Harwood like a granny,
with the goal of finishing without damage in my inebriated condition.. So..,
I finish the stage and.... "Well done, you have driven a personal best on
the Harwood stage!"

Yep.. I discovered that I've been overdriving all this time.. all the full
opposite lock stuff that I was so used to in my RWD escort driivng days
doesn't pay off with the 4WDs.. I just drove clean and conservative, with
the car neutral out of corners, and did a PB.

I'll think more about this tomorrow when I'm in a better state to think.

Tim...

p.s. - don't try this oin the road. I've never driven for real after more
than 2 glasses. You might survive, but if you kill someone else after drink
driving, you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life.

by **Plowboy** » Sun, 26 Sep 2004 05:19:15

Are you sure that it wasn't all in your "drunken Mind?"

you know like some people get really drunk and think
"yeah your ex-girlfriend would want you back now if... you call her, rigth
now, while sloshed & at 3 am..."

<G> LOL

Tim Epstein (eppy) enlightened us with:

by **Edgecrushe** » Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:00:44

Ive done some real good times while drunk in N2003 although Ive yet to test it out in a league race!
_____

Steve

"Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense."

> This was very unexpected...

> I arrive home on a Friday night after my first decent night out since I
> bought RBR a few weeks ago. I've downed a beer after work, and a full bottle
> of Red ('82 Chateau Latour Pauillac) at a restaurant.

> So, when I get home, I thought I would try to drive Harwood like a granny,
> with the goal of finishing without damage in my inebriated condition.. So..,
> I finish the stage and.... "Well done, you have driven a personal best on
> the Harwood stage!"

> Yep.. I discovered that I've been overdriving all this time.. all the full
> opposite lock stuff that I was so used to in my RWD escort driivng days
> doesn't pay off with the 4WDs.. I just drove clean and conservative, with
> the car neutral out of corners, and did a PB.

> I'll think more about this tomorrow when I'm in a better state to think.

> Tim...

> p.s. - don't try this oin the road. I've never driven for real after more
> than 2 glasses. You might survive, but if you kill someone else after drink
> driving, you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life.

by **Jay** » Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:19:09

Latour Pauillac) at a restaurant.<<

1982 Chateau Latour?
Damn!!! How much did THAT cost!!! Hope you had a special occasion to
celebrate ;-)

'82 was arguably the best vintage for Bordeaux wines in the past 50 years,
so a first growth like that couldn't have been cheap and must have been
phenomenal!

Jay J

by **Uwe Schürkam** » Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:09:14

> I'll think more about this tomorrow when I'm in a better state to think.

> Tim...

hehe! Opposite for me, I think. The more sober I am, the faster I
drive. But then again I'm a "regular" beer drinker so a couple won't
affect me too much.

All the best,

uwe

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by **eppy** » Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:03:52

Let's just say that it made the rest of the meal look like a tip :-)
However, it was worth it! Incredibly smooth, and I can still taste the
complexity of the aftertaste lingering at the back of my tongue somewhere...

Of course - if this was typical of my regular plonk, I'd could afford to
drive a real WRC spec car on weekends just for fun.

It will be interesting to compare the 2000 vintage - something to look
forward to in another decade or so. Anyway, this is seriously OT, so I'd
better stick a cork in this thread.

Tim

> Jay J

>> This was very unexpected...

>> I arrive home on a Friday night after my first decent night out since I
>> bought RBR a few weeks ago. I've downed a beer after work, and a full
> bottle
>> of Red ('82 Chateau Latour Pauillac) at a restaurant.

>> So, when I get home, I thought I would try to drive Harwood like a
>> granny,
>> with the goal of finishing without damage in my inebriated condition..
> So..,
>> I finish the stage and.... "Well done, you have driven a personal best on
>> the Harwood stage!"

>> Yep.. I discovered that I've been overdriving all this time.. all the
>> full
>> opposite lock stuff that I was so used to in my RWD escort driivng days
>> doesn't pay off with the 4WDs.. I just drove clean and conservative, with
>> the car neutral out of corners, and did a PB.

>> I'll think more about this tomorrow when I'm in a better state to think.

>> Tim...

>> p.s. - don't try this oin the road. I've never driven for real after more
>> than 2 glasses. You might survive, but if you kill someone else after
> drink
>> driving, you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life.

by **ymenar** » Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:49:07

> I arrive home on a Friday night after my first decent night out since I
> bought RBR a few weeks ago. I've downed a beer after work, and a full
> bottle of Red ('82 Chateau Latour Pauillac) at a restaurant.

I remember some threads here, perhaps it was Steve Smith posting, relating
to some Car&Driver article back in those days where they tested various
drivers in different ***ic conditions.

One could search google for results on that. It was interesting.

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by **Swerv** » Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:55:55

>> a Friday night after my first decent night out since I bought RBR a
>> few weeks ago. I've downed a beer after work, and a full bottle of
>> Red ('82 Chateau Latour Pauillac) at a restaurant.

> I remember some threads here, perhaps it was Steve Smith posting,
> relating to some Car&Driver article back in those days where they
> tested various drivers in different ***ic conditions.

> One could search google for results on that. It was interesting.

5th Gear also did something similar, they did tired vs. drunk, once on a
road course with some badly parked cars on it and once on a big oval to
simulate freeway driving. The drunk people were awful at the road
course (missing the stop signs, veering around the lines, trouble
parallel parking), but when they did the freeway drive, the tired people
kept getting "freeway hypnosis" and drifted between the lines and
couldn't keep their speed steady. Tiff, who was drunk, did perfectly
on the freeway section, though he kept chattering away like a drunken
fool ;)

It was definitely interesting, hopefully Speed will re-run it.

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