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10.    "We had a bug in the program, we're waiting for McLaren to put out the 1.01 patch.."
            (aka Autosport, http://www.racesimcentral.net/)
9.    "He must've enabled the cheat codes, I think he typed "IWANNAWIN" and he just drove
        off from us..."
8.    "I think we're having a hardware conflict.  Every time the engine revs past 9,000 rpm, I get
            the Blue Screen of Death..."
7.    "Mika was railriding, just passed all of us in the chiquane..."
6.    "I should've calibrated my controller before the race..."
5.    "I know it was a warp.  He drove through me like he didn't even see me..."
4.    "I had to hit Shift-R about 5 times...stupid newbies"
3.    "I think we need to model the aerodynamics better...I kept getting airborne off the chiquanes..."
2.    "Stupid mistake...I hit the ESC key on the starting grid..."

And the number one excuse for traction control...

"I KNOW Schumacher sent me a virus, I hit the gas and the engine went dead.  It said something
            like 'All your base are belong to us' on the screen..."

Cheers!

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-Larry

http://www.autosport.com/article2.cfm?id=14087&ref=home&series=5)
revs past 9,000 rpm, I get
airborne off the chiquanes..."
dead.  It said something

However, as far as I know, there are no F1 sims based on the 2001
season, so why does this matter?!

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Richard.
   (speaking personally)

Shouldn't that be "All your race are belong to us"?

Muzza

p.s. :  Nice to see you around, Rick.  We were just talking about your NROS
stats back in the other NG :)

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Doug

Anyway I don't see the reason why a driver has to change gears.  It's a
purely mechanical thing that shouldn't be something a driver needs to care
about.  I'm talking about a race car, of course.

On a similar note yet so far distant, I remember back in Indianapolis 500:
The Simulation by Papyrus, you could do on-track setup changes.  You could
with practice develop some sort of unique *** that would simply follow
the torque by pulling down the gears on the straights.

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Corporation - helping America into the New World...

Matchett also mentioned that the reason that power steering is banned now that
traction control has returned is because the teams could use the information
from the steering input to affect grip levels - a kind of active braking
system similar to what McLaren were banned from using a couple of years ago.

Dave Ewing

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Provided the electronics has a track map, of course - there are times
when you want to shift other than at the the optimum max-acceleration
shift point...

Jonny

Mika Hakkinen said (in the post-race interview) that he was babying his car
towards the end of the Spanish GP - taking it easy on throttle and brakes
and also short-shifting. Of course, it didn't do him any good in the end,
but the fact that he could short shift seems to indicate that he has a fair
amount of control over his upshift timings.

Jim