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by **Tim Vanhe** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 02:41:05

Yet Another Negative Gplrank Announcement!!

YESSS!!! I always wanted to say that! :)
I'm gonna clean my screen now because I didn't know champagne was so sticky!

When I submitted my first handicap (104) in august I never thought I would
be able to get past handicap 50, 4 months later I'm negative and I've
improved my ability with huge steps in such a short time.

Nobody probably cares but I feel like I conquered the world :)))))
Damn I love gpl! bring on the next challenge! a leaugue maybe?
I think I'll still improve my rank but I wont be focussed on it so much
anymore

by **Gerry Aitke** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 03:10:36

> Yet Another Negative Gplrank Announcement!!

Tim -- Very well done, mate. How long have you had GPL, just out of
interest?

Regards

Gerry

by **Jan Verschuere** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 03:18:31

Hehehe... congrats Tim.

Jan.
=---
"Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn.

by **David L. Coo** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 03:27:12

CONGRATS!

Now see if you can go Negative on Rally Trophy Rank www.rtrank.com The
benchmark times were run by pro rally driver Simon de Banke. They're damn
fast and it won't be easy, but then again neither was going Negative on
GPLRank was it <g>

- David Cook

by **Steve Whitt** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 05:17:26

Congrats

great feeling ain't it..

Steve

by **Tony Whitle** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 06:45:29

Congratulations Tim. I reckon you're right, I got my handicap negative
(just) then went off for something else to aim at...but somehow the Monsters
of GPL wasn't quite the same.

Tony Whitley
GPLRank -0.54
MonsterRank 406.77

by **Rob Adam** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 07:16:31

Trust me, join a league. It directs your obsession onto a different channel.
Now you will obsessively practice the upcoming track every day for the week
or two before the event, to the exception of all else. You will tweak your
setup endlessly, watching your league mates get farther ahead or farther
behind in their PB's.

Then after the league race you will completely forget about that track and
start on the next one.

Oh, and if your league races on the original tracks, you'll probably find
your GPL Rank improving as a side effect. When I started in my current
league I was -6 something. Now I'm approaching -10, and have broken my PB at
every track we have raced so far.

And, a league will force you to learn tracks other than the original 11,
possibly even the ovals.

Rob
GPL Rank -9.66
Monster Rank in progress (Ring, Rouen, and Zandy still to go)

by **Tim Vanhe** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 07:17:19

Really? I happen to know SdB as he's running scoobynet, the forum for Subaru
owners. Great to hear that he's the benchmark :)
I must first upgrade my pc to play RT, but I've played it at a friends place
and I love it!

> CONGRATS!

> Now see if you can go Negative on Rally Trophy Rank www.rtrank.com The
> benchmark times were run by pro rally driver Simon de Banke. They're damn
> fast and it won't be easy, but then again neither was going Negative on
> GPLRank was it <g>

> - David Cook

> > Yet Another Negative Gplrank Announcement!!

> > YESSS!!! I always wanted to say that! :)
> > I'm gonna clean my screen now because I didn't know champagne was so
> sticky!

> > When I submitted my first handicap (104) in august I never thought I
would
> > be able to get past handicap 50, 4 months later I'm negative and I've
> > improved my ability with huge steps in such a short time.

> > Nobody probably cares but I feel like I conquered the world :)))))
> > Damn I love gpl! bring on the next challenge! a leaugue maybe?
> > I think I'll still improve my rank but I wont be focussed on it so much
> > anymore

by **Tim Vanhe** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 07:22:29

Since the very beginning, so more than 3 years. I didn't play it very much
before I got internet, and that's about 2 years I guess that I've been
***ed to it. :)

> > Yet Another Negative Gplrank Announcement!!

> Tim -- Very well done, mate. How long have you had GPL, just out of
> interest?

> Regards

> Gerry

by **Jens H. Kruus** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 07:52:57

Attaboy! Well done!

Now get started on your MonsterRank. :-)

/Jens

by **Simon Brow** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 07:54:18

Congratulations Tim, great stuff :)

I wonder if like me, you'll stop hot-lapping now you're negative? My
handicap has only improved 2 seconds since I went negative (now -2.2) six
months ago.

btw you don't need to have a negative handicap to race in a league. Also
racing in a league will seriously improve your driving and it's the best fun
ever if you find a fun, friendly league.

by **Tim Vanhe** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:23:56

Already got one. But I won't try getting it negative ;)

> > Yet Another Negative Gplrank Announcement!!

> Attaboy! Well done!

> Now get started on your MonsterRank. :-)

> /Jens

by **Andre Warring** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:46:47

Right on, congrats :)
Now go for a sub-8 at the Ring :)

Andre

by **Alan Bernard** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:42:43

Wow!

Alanb

by **David Butte** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:47:42

<snip>

Bostin' :-)

--
Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which
deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan

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