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GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

Martin Portm

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Martin Portm » Tue, 12 Oct 1999 04:00:00

it was on Oct 9th, 1998, that i wandered (raced) into the local
software shop, got a copy of GPL, and said goodbye to hundreds of
hours of my life.

and one year on, i think i'm starting getting the hang of it!!

martin.
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Arne Marti

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Arne Marti » Tue, 12 Oct 1999 04:00:00


> After one year I have just completed my first race at Mexico City!!!
> Says a _LOT_ about the depth of this sim.

I think it rather says a _LOT_ about Bruce Kennewell :-)

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Arne Martin

Graeme Nas

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Graeme Nas » Tue, 12 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Funny... aside from Monza, which was the standard "starter" track, the
first race I ever completed offline was at Mexico!

If memory serves me correctly I got pole, fastest lap and beat Clark to
the win by 12.63 seconds <smugness> :-))

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Cheers!
Graeme Nash

10/10/98 - 10/10/99
One year of gracing the GPL world lol :-)

Kurt Steinboc

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Kurt Steinboc » Tue, 12 Oct 1999 04:00:00


>After one year I have just completed my first race at Mexico City!!!
>Says a _LOT_ about the depth of this sim.

Bruce, I'm genuinely curious.  Do you mean that you just completed your very
first race, which happened to be at Mexico?  Or do you mean that you just
completed your first race at Mexico City, specifically, but have finished
races at other tracks?

Anyway, in a similar vein, I just made it under the birthday wire with my
first incident-free sub-nine-minute lap of the Ring.  Happy birthday,
indeed, GPL!

Kurt

speedrace

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by speedrace » Tue, 12 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I hate mexico... can't see where I'm going..  It's just a wierd track.

speedracer


> >After one year I have just completed my first race at Mexico City!!!
> >Says a _LOT_ about the depth of this sim.

> Bruce, I'm genuinely curious.  Do you mean that you just completed your
very
> first race, which happened to be at Mexico?  Or do you mean that you just
> completed your first race at Mexico City, specifically, but have finished
> races at other tracks?

> Anyway, in a similar vein, I just made it under the birthday wire with my
> first incident-free sub-nine-minute lap of the Ring.  Happy birthday,
> indeed, GPL!

> Kurt

Bruce Kennewel

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Bruce Kennewel » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00

After one year I have just completed my first race at Mexico City!!!
Says a _LOT_ about the depth of this sim.


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Bruce Kennewel

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Bruce Kennewel » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00

No....no, don't get the wrong idea, Arne!!  It's simply that I have been
following the real 1967 calendar and really had no interest in running at
Mexico until the GP rolled around because I hated the circuit in GP1 and
really had no wish to face it again until I had to!!! :o)



> > After one year I have just completed my first race at Mexico City!!!
> > Says a _LOT_ about the depth of this sim.

> I think it rather says a _LOT_ about Bruce Kennewell :-)

> --
> Arne Martin

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Bruce Kennewel

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Bruce Kennewel » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I've completed races at all other circuits, Kurt, but just haven't got
around to actually _running_ a race at Mexico City until now.
BK



> >After one year I have just completed my first race at Mexico City!!!
> >Says a _LOT_ about the depth of this sim.

> Bruce, I'm genuinely curious.  Do you mean that you just completed your
very
> first race, which happened to be at Mexico?  Or do you mean that you just
> completed your first race at Mexico City, specifically, but have finished
> races at other tracks?

> Anyway, in a similar vein, I just made it under the birthday wire with my
> first incident-free sub-nine-minute lap of the Ring.  Happy birthday,
> indeed, GPL!

> Kurt

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mark jeangerar

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by mark jeangerar » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00

It's only been a year?  Happy Birthday I suppose. :-)

What does one get first year sim?

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Mark Jeangerard
www.soundchaserweb.com
New Mexico USA

Goy Larse

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Goy Larse » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00


> It's only been a year?  Happy Birthday I suppose. :-)

> What does one get first year sim?

An add-on ? :-)

For me, an AussieV8 add-on would be cool......
<you guys should she the smile I have on my face rigt now>

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(uncle) Goy

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Arne Marti

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Arne Marti » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00


> No....no, don't get the wrong idea, Arne!!  It's simply that I have been
> following the real 1967 calendar and really had no interest in running at
> Mexico until the GP rolled around because I hated the circuit in GP1 and
> really had no wish to face it again until I had to!!! :o)

Which still says more about you than about GPL :-)
By following the real 67 calendar, do you mean that you have been
driving each race on that same date as in 67? Sounds weird to me ;-)

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Arne Martin

George M. Smile

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by George M. Smile » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00


> By following the real 67 calendar, do you mean that you have been
> driving each race on that same date as in 67? Sounds weird to me ;-)

Well consider me weird as well.  I use driving a GP season with
a host of realistic 'rules' tacked on as an added challenge, i.e.
a fixed calendar schedule, a fixed race weekend schedule, no
lucky escapes from practice session crashes (by far the hardest
one for me to obey), no race restarts and so on.  Basically
one shot at everything independent of your own personal
condition.  It certainly changes ones approach and adds
an extra dimension to a season.

You get much of the same with online league racing, this is
just a way to carry it over to offline racing.

 - George

Arne Marti

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Arne Marti » Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:00:00



> > By following the real 67 calendar, do you mean that you have been
> > driving each race on that same date as in 67? Sounds weird to me ;-)

> Well consider me weird as well.  I use driving a GP season with
> a host of realistic 'rules' tacked on as an added challenge, i.e.
> a fixed calendar schedule, a fixed race weekend schedule, no
> lucky escapes from practice session crashes (by far the hardest
> one for me to obey), no race restarts and so on.  Basically
> one shot at everything independent of your own personal
> condition.  It certainly changes ones approach and adds
> an extra dimension to a season.

> You get much of the same with online league racing, this is
> just a way to carry it over to offline racing.

I also gave myself a realism rule in my first season: no practicing the
tracks before the season! That way I tried to give myself the same
challenge real drivers have to face in that I had to learn the track,
try to get a setup and set a good qualifying time all in the space of 2
practice sessions. I did practice on a selected few tracks before the
season just to learn how the car handles, but most tracks it was the
very first time I saw it when starting the practice session for the race
weekend in my season.

I now use a different car, and it's usually the first time I try that
car on each track, but it doesn't work as well as when I didn't knew the
track as well :-)

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Arne Martin

Bruce Kennewel

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Bruce Kennewel » Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:00:00

(snip)
(unsnip)
An add-on pack? :o)


> It's only been a year?  Happy Birthday I suppose. :-)

> What does one get first year sim?

> --
> Mark Jeangerard
> www.soundchaserweb.com
> New Mexico USA


> > it was on Oct 9th, 1998, that i wandered (raced) into the local
> > software shop, got a copy of GPL, and said goodbye to hundreds of
> > hours of my life.

> > and one year on, i think i'm starting getting the hang of it!!

> > martin.
> > --

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Bruce Kennewel

GPL: Happy 1st Birthday

by Bruce Kennewel » Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:00:00

SNAP!!
:o)



> > It's only been a year?  Happy Birthday I suppose. :-)

> > What does one get first year sim?

> An add-on ? :-)

> For me, an AussieV8 add-on would be cool......
> <you guys should she the smile I have on my face rigt now>

> --

> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy

> "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/
> "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/

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