rec.autos.simulators

Seriously..........another wonderful piece of artistry from the circuit
specialists and definitely (in my humble opinion) the "scariest" track to
drive fast.  Can you even *begin* to imagine what is must have been like in
a pre-war Auto Union or Mercedes?  Pounding through the "green tunnel"?
Shudder!!!

A beautiful job.  Take a bow, chaps; you certainly deserve it.

Oh...before I go....just a minor thing that someone might be able to address
further down the track (pun definitely intended!): the behaviour of the AI
at the start seems a bit wonky.  It's as if they're all on Valium until just
after the first corner then they all get a charge of adrenaline and off they
go! :-)

Now....back to Switzerland..................................

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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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Just to add my thanks to the Bremgarten team, been waiting for this one
for a while, and it was well worth the wait:-)

Absolutely! It's no wonder they couldn't race on it after 1955.

All we need now is someone to make an Auto-Union or Mercedes car model.
I don't know if it's possible or not given current GPL editing
technology.

With new sounds and a low-grip setting you wouldn't need to change much
else to have what "Spirit of Speed 1937" should have been.

- Michael

The AIs are...well, *bizarre* doesn't begin to cover it.  I 'staged' (but
didn't participate in, so I could observe) an AI race, and can confirm yer
observation: they get off to a crawling start, then seem to pick up the
pace.  Then it gets *really* wierd.  In a 7-lap race, every car made one or
more pit stops...but then RAN OUT OF GAS!  Well, almost everybody.
Scarfiotti won (!!!), and Parkes (!!!) was second.  Both finished at about

2:23--second.)  Every other car else stopped on the track and then winked
out; simply vanished.  I've never seen AIs make pit stops (I guess no one
told them you can't make pit stops in GPL!) in a race; I can only imagine
they thought they were in a P&Q session.

Lovely track!  I'm sure it will be a nightmare online.  I can't wait to d/l
Greger Huttu's Hot Lap, tho.

--Steve Smith

Racing against a clock on a point-to-point track (hill climbing) was still
okay but actually racing head-to-head on a circuit was illegal.

I have to agree (and have pleaded before now) that a package including the
cars from the other eras, the early 'tween war years, the 1950's and the
early 1960's, would be brilliant.

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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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I confirm *your* observations too, Stephen, about the AI behaviour during a
race.  Only five out of the seven*** practised; Bandini took off like a
scalded cat and was never seen again whilst the others all milled around
behind me until they also disappeared from F2 replays.  At the end of a
15-lap race it was Bandini first by about 3 light years and me second.
Nobody else finished!

Oh well.

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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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But strange things seem to happen... :-)
I drove an AI race, full field. I qualified 13th, I won only those
poor drivers who did not want to drive in qualifying... ;)

In the race I was driving around 8th - I do not know, what happened to
those behind me... (I have the rpy, I'll check later). In the beginning
of the last lap ALL the drivers in front of decided to go to the pits!
They came back to the track after quite short stop.
And I won the race! :-)  But there was no newspaper... :-(

Anyhow, new experiences with GPL... ;-)

Arto

If you want to *somewhat* simulate the pre-war cars, use the Engine Manager
and put an F1 engine in an F2 or F3 chassis. I did this and the car is
unbelievably sensitive to power.

Now that's an interesting idea:-) I suppose you get wheelspin
everywhere?

- Michael

True - after all they were still racing on the Spa circuit! Probably
wouldn't have lasted much past the early 70's though.

Wasn't much of the circuit surfaced with cobble-stones? I'm not sure if
that's represented in the GPL track.

- Michael

+Cinquo

To be fair to the Bremgarten development team, to AI's at their track is
non-exsisting - for one reason;  *I* couldn't find the time to make it -
before they wanted to release the track.

So if you experience weird behaviour etc. -  you now know why.

Ed_
The GPLEA

-Cheers

Andre

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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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