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TRUSRS

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by TRUSRS » Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:36:43

They are doing a thing on nascar drivers and the video games they play
maybe a real simulation will get mentioned instead of the playstation??

CART!!!!!

Kirk Hous

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by Kirk Hous » Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:47:04

Wow I just heard a Nascar driver talking about racing against one G. Hill in
an F1 game based on the '67 season.  Wonder what that might be... :)
Thanks for the update TRUSR


Kirk Hous

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by Kirk Hous » Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:53:49

Oh BTW it's going to be on again at 12:00 AM.  I only saw the last 3 minutes
of the discussion but it looked like some interesting stuff was brought up.
I'm going to see if I can find a link to the transcript on the FoxSports
website...


TRUSRS

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by TRUSRS » Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:12:46

my name is NYR2119935
:)

I was very surprised to hear Labonte and Gordon talk about GPL
amazing
:)

Gaul

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by Gaul » Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:35:46


Please do... I'd love to hear the details.

Andre Warrin

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by Andre Warrin » Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:54:48


You're weird :)

So.. what did they say exactly?

Andre

Ed Solhei

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by Ed Solhei » Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:38:41


> > Oh BTW it's going to be on again at 12:00 AM.  I only saw the last 3
> minutes
> > of the discussion but it looked like some interesting stuff was brought
> up.
> > I'm going to see if I can find a link to the transcript on the FoxSports
> > website...

> Please do... I'd love to hear the details.

Some nice soul sent me this today ( Thanks Ron!):

This week, Fox Sports is showing pieces from a roundtable
discussion between Fox Sports Net racing commentator Mike
Joy and several NASCAR drivers (including Darrell Waltrip,
who retired last year and will be a commentator this year).
Today, the subject was racing games...

MJ - Mike Joy
DE - Dale Earnhardt
JG - Jeff Gordon
DJ - Dale Jarrett
BL - Bobby Labonte
DW - Darrell Waltrip

MJ: Four of us at this table grew up without computer games, and we've
    got two avid players here.  I know you (Labonte) burn up the phone
    lines playing racing games, and Jeff, I know in the first few years
    of your career, we'd all be out at parties and things, and you'd be
    at videogame mall.

DW: AFTER he got home from the party.  Don't believe (? covered by laughter
?).
    But yeah, I'd like to know about that.  How do you race-- I've seen
these
    kids like Dale Jr., they'll qualify, run back to the motor home, and
start
    playing games.  Like they run the race... Like they do the track...

DE: Let me tell you what happened to me...

JG: To me, one of the best getaways, though, from the hustle and bustle
of...
    OK, you know, let's say you've got to go out and make that car half a
second
    faster for qualifying, the best thing for me to do to get focused is go
back
    to the motor coach, pull out the videogame -- and maybe a racing game;
it
    might be a sports game -- and I get so into that that I totally am
focused,
    when I get away from that game, on what I've got to go do.  It just, to
me,
    gets my mind away from a lot of things.

DE: Dale Jr.'s got this table at his house, it's bigger than this, and
there's
    four stations -- big computer stations.  He sits there and plays four
friends,
    and they're online playing more guys, and doing that stuff.  And I went
over
    there and drove a race against him one day -- Whoa! Don't do that...
Now I
    understand it when he talks about going to these race tracks.  We went
to
    Sebring and tested for the 24-hour race not long ago.  I've never seen
Sebring!
    We go down there and he's all calm and laid-back.  We go out and run and
he's
    a couple, three seconds faster than me.

JG: (laughing) "Couple three seconds"!

DE: Or more!

DW: Yeah, not tenths -- seconds!

DE: (misheard DW) Seconds -- not tenths!  So we're talking about it that
night,
    and he says, "Man, I got on the computer and I ran the thing all week."
    He ran Sebring all week on the computer, and I've never seen the place.
    I should've been over at Dale Jr.'s on the computer!

MJ: Didn't you do that, Bobby, with Sears Point, the first times we went
there?

BL: Yeah, a couple times, I did.  But really I haven't been able to do it as
much
    because now I have two kids which take up more time.

DE: And THEY'RE playing...

BL: And they're playing computers.  Yeah, now I'm working on the computer to
get
    it going so they can play with it.  But I have helped developed a game,
and
    it is a lot of fun.  Like Jeff said, you do get intense on it.

MJ: If they'd had computers all these years, and could recreate any driver
from
    history, who would you like to race against?

DE: That's a tough one, Darrell...

DW: Yeah.

DE: My dad...

DW: Curtis Turner...

DE: No, my dad.

DW: Well, your dad, of course.  You...

DE: My dad.

DW: I'd like to see Curtis Turner.

MJ: (to Earnhardt) Who would win?

DE: My dad.  He'd still be thinking I'd still be trying to... (? laughing
too
    much to be comprehensible ?)

BL: I raced on this one computer game, it was Graham Hill.  I raced against
him,
    in the old...

DW: Yeah.

BL: ...Formula One days, so that's pretty cool.

DW: Lotus...

BL: Yeah!

MJ: The 1967 Formula One series.

BL: Yeah, so I've raced against--

JG: I was going to say Schumacher.

DW: Oh yeah...

JG: I've raced him a few times one some Formula One games, so that was
pretty cool.

MJ: (to Jarrett) Dale?

DJ: Mine'd be my dad.  I mean, I think it's a neat experience for Dale and
Junior
    to do that.  And, of course, I've raced with Jason in a couple of Busch
races,
    so that's been good, but I'd love to have had that chance to race
against my
    dad -- on asphalt; I wouldn't want him on dirt!

DW: I guess I'd race against my brother; I think I could beat him!

JG: We better get him into this discussion...

DE: Not in my car!

DW: Up to this point! Up to this point.

----

Ed_
The GPLEA

Stephen Smit

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by Stephen Smit » Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:17:10

Andre,

Maybe NYR2119935 is in the slam and is just looking for a little privacy.

Labonte is firmly in the Papyrus camp.  Didn't know El Jeffe was a player,
tho.

--Steve



> >>Wow I just heard a Nascar driver talking about racing against one G.
Hill in
> >>an F1 game based on the '67 season.  Wonder what that might be... :)
> >>Thanks for the update TRUSR

> >my name is NYR2119935
> >:)

> You're weird :)

> >I was very surprised to hear Labonte and Gordon talk about GPL
> >amazing
> >:)

> So.. what did they say exactly?

> Andre

Chris Not

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by Chris Not » Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:16:15


>Wow I just heard a Nascar driver talking about racing against one G. Hill in
>an F1 game based on the '67 season.  Wonder what that might be... :)

=Which= NASCAR driver?

Thanks,
Chris.

Kirk Hous

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by Kirk Hous » Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:27:49

Not sure about his name, he is the kind of portly looking guy with blondish
hair.  Possibly Dale Jarret.  Not a real big fan of NASCAR yet...   It would
make sense that it was him because he made that Jarret/Labonte NASCAR game
for the playstation recently.



> >Wow I just heard a Nascar driver talking about racing against one G. Hill
in
> >an F1 game based on the '67 season.  Wonder what that might be... :)

> =Which= NASCAR driver?

> Thanks,
> Chris.

Jeff Eilan

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by Jeff Eilan » Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:39:39

Jarrett wanted to race his dad, dale earnhardt wanted to race his dad, I
think it was Darrell Waltrip who said he'd like to have raced G Hill, oh and
Jeff Gordon said he'd like to race M Schumaker, they were discussing who
they would like to race in a sim-racing game given the chance to race
anyone, I could be wrong about all this, it might have been just a dream

--
Jeff Eiland
Georgia Boot #51
"Knights of the Round Track"
http://www.paladinracing.com


> Not sure about his name, he is the kind of portly looking guy with
blondish
> hair.  Possibly Dale Jarret.  Not a real big fan of NASCAR yet...   It
would
> make sense that it was him because he made that Jarret/Labonte NASCAR game
> for the playstation recently.




> > >Wow I just heard a Nascar driver talking about racing against one G.
Hill
> in
> > >an F1 game based on the '67 season.  Wonder what that might be... :)

> > =Which= NASCAR driver?

> > Thanks,
> > Chris.

Ed Solhei

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by Ed Solhei » Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:12:42

Again...  here is a chat log from the program:

This week, Fox Sports is showing pieces from a roundtable
discussion between Fox Sports Net racing commentator Mike
Joy and several NASCAR drivers (including Darrell Waltrip,
who retired last year and will be a commentator this year).
Today, the subject was racing games...

MJ - Mike Joy
DE - Dale Earnhardt
JG - Jeff Gordon
DJ - Dale Jarrett
BL - Bobby Labonte
DW - Darrell Waltrip

MJ: Four of us at this table grew up without computer games, and we've
    got two avid players here.  I know you (Labonte) burn up the phone
    lines playing racing games, and Jeff, I know in the first few years
    of your career, we'd all be out at parties and things, and you'd be
    at videogame mall.

DW: AFTER he got home from the party.  Don't believe (? covered by laughter
?).
    But yeah, I'd like to know about that.  How do you race-- I've seen
these
    kids like Dale Jr., they'll qualify, run back to the motor home, and
start
    playing games.  Like they run the race... Like they do the track...

DE: Let me tell you what happened to me...

JG: To me, one of the best getaways, though, from the hustle and bustle
of...
    OK, you know, let's say you've got to go out and make that car half a
second
    faster for qualifying, the best thing for me to do to get focused is go
back
    to the motor coach, pull out the videogame -- and maybe a racing game;
it
    might be a sports game -- and I get so into that that I totally am
focused,
    when I get away from that game, on what I've got to go do.  It just, to
me,
    gets my mind away from a lot of things.

DE: Dale Jr.'s got this table at his house, it's bigger than this, and
there's
    four stations -- big computer stations.  He sits there and plays four
friends,
    and they're online playing more guys, and doing that stuff.  And I went
over
    there and drove a race against him one day -- Whoa! Don't do that...
Now I
    understand it when he talks about going to these race tracks.  We went
to
    Sebring and tested for the 24-hour race not long ago.  I've never seen
Sebring!
    We go down there and he's all calm and laid-back.  We go out and run and
he's
    a couple, three seconds faster than me.

JG: (laughing) "Couple three seconds"!

DE: Or more!

DW: Yeah, not tenths -- seconds!

DE: (misheard DW) Seconds -- not tenths!  So we're talking about it that
night,
    and he says, "Man, I got on the computer and I ran the thing all week."
    He ran Sebring all week on the computer, and I've never seen the place.
    I should've been over at Dale Jr.'s on the computer!

MJ: Didn't you do that, Bobby, with Sears Point, the first times we went
there?

BL: Yeah, a couple times, I did.  But really I haven't been able to do it as
much
    because now I have two kids which take up more time.

DE: And THEY'RE playing...

BL: And they're playing computers.  Yeah, now I'm working on the computer to
get
    it going so they can play with it.  But I have helped developed a game,
and
    it is a lot of fun.  Like Jeff said, you do get intense on it.

MJ: If they'd had computers all these years, and could recreate any driver
from
    history, who would you like to race against?

DE: That's a tough one, Darrell...

DW: Yeah.

DE: My dad...

DW: Curtis Turner...

DE: No, my dad.

DW: Well, your dad, of course.  You...

DE: My dad.

DW: I'd like to see Curtis Turner.

MJ: (to Earnhardt) Who would win?

DE: My dad.  He'd still be thinking I'd still be trying to... (? laughing
too
    much to be comprehensible ?)

BL: I raced on this one computer game, it was Graham Hill.  I raced against
him,
    in the old...

DW: Yeah.

BL: ...Formula One days, so that's pretty cool.

DW: Lotus...

BL: Yeah!

MJ: The 1967 Formula One series.

BL: Yeah, so I've raced against--

JG: I was going to say Schumacher.

DW: Oh yeah...

JG: I've raced him a few times one some Formula One games, so that was
pretty cool.

MJ: (to Jarrett) Dale?

DJ: Mine'd be my dad.  I mean, I think it's a neat experience for Dale and
Junior
    to do that.  And, of course, I've raced with Jason in a couple of Busch
races,
    so that's been good, but I'd love to have had that chance to race
against my
    dad -- on asphalt; I wouldn't want him on dirt!

DW: I guess I'd race against my brother; I think I could beat him!

JG: We better get him into this discussion...

DE: Not in my car!

DW: Up to this point! Up to this point.

------------

Ed_
The GPLEA


> Not sure about his name, he is the kind of portly looking guy with
blondish
> hair.  Possibly Dale Jarret.  Not a real big fan of NASCAR yet...   It
would
> make sense that it was him because he made that Jarret/Labonte NASCAR game
> for the playstation recently.


> > >Wow I just heard a Nascar driver talking about racing against one G.
Hill
> in
> > >an F1 game based on the '67 season.  Wonder what that might be... :)

> > =Which= NASCAR driver?

> > Thanks,
> > Chris.

(Rich#8

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by (Rich#8 » Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:17:04

Actually it was Dale Jarrets son and Terry Labonte's son who made that
game for the Playstation

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:27:49 -0800, "Kirk House"


>Not sure about his name, he is the kind of portly looking guy with blondish
>hair.  Possibly Dale Jarret.  Not a real big fan of NASCAR yet...   It would
>make sense that it was him because he made that Jarret/Labonte NASCAR game
>for the playstation recently.




>> >Wow I just heard a Nascar driver talking about racing against one G. Hill
>in
>> >an F1 game based on the '67 season.  Wonder what that might be... :)

>> =Which= NASCAR driver?

>> Thanks,
>> Chris.

Gaul

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by Gaul » Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:46:02

Thanks for posting that! Nice interview.

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