rec.autos.simulators

1.  Nurburgring (shock surprise) - 109.259%
2.  Monaco - 107.963%
3.  Rouen - 107.114%
4.  Mosport - 105.968%
5.  Zandvoort - 105.706%
6.  Silverstone - 105.652%
7.  Kyalami - 105.252%
8.  Mexico - 105.136%
9.  Spa - 103.842%
10.  Watkins Glen - 102.974%
11.  Monza - 102.486%

So, using modern standards, I'd qualify outside of 107%, and thus not make
the grid, at 3 of the tracks.. and now I know where to devote my energy!  I
love this stuff.  Did I mention my loserdom?

Pants

<snip>

Hey, another unnecessary statistic! I love these! OK, for me...

1. Monaco - 110.27%
2. Mexico - 106.85%
3. Nrburgring - 106.72%
4. Zandvoort - 106.35%
5. Rouen - 105.68%
6. Mosport - 105.39%
7. Kyalami - 104.79%
8. Silverstone - 104.11%
9. Watkins Glen - 103.56%
10. Monza - 103.00%
11. Spa - 102.91%

Well, nice to see I wasn't deluding myself all this time about liking
Spa. But I'm surprised at Kyalami - I don't like that place at all, and
much prefer Rouen, whihc I'm not that good at. And as for Monaco...
look, I just hate it, OK? ;-)

--
David. (GPLRank handicap: -3.90)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

Don't worry. I practised a lot at Zandvoort and managed to go under 1:30.
That
was the best I could do. Then I downloaded a lap from Wolfgang Woeger, who
managed a 1:23 !!!!! I studied his driving style and its pretty extreme, he
never
breaks with exception to the first curve.

I am unable and also unwillingly to change my driving style, which is more
elegant than WWs. ;-)) SO those times are out of reach for me, but it is
okay.

Jochen

You are going to get lots of messages telling you that GPL rank calculations
should remain the same and so on ....

VERY good idea, but not to be said out loud here.

<snip>

Okay, I'm admittedly severely math impaired, but there's something here I
don't understand.  David, if all your times are greater than 100%, how can
you have a negative GPLRank number?  I'm not challenging your prowess --
just curious about your math.  ;-)

Kurt

In other words, I'd only MAKE the grid at 3 of the tracks... This AFTER I've
lowered PB's at 5 of the tracks by a total of almost 7 seconds!

Eldred
--
Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999
Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
GPL hcp. +52.52

Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
with experience...
Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Simple. My %ages are of the World Record time, whereas my GPLRank is
calculated according to the Papyrus Benchmark time.

--
David. (GPLRank handicap: -3.90)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

I would also note that the Papyrus benchmarks fail to qualify at Monaco,
Nurburgring and Silverstone. And just to let you know your not the only
one that spends too much time calculating things at GPLRank. I spent a
little time determining which of the benchmarks were toughest to beat.
Basically below is the ranking of the benchmark times for each track.

1. Nurburgring - 236
2. Kyalami - 268
3. Mosport -338
4. Mexico - 345
5. Monaco - 345
6. Rouen - 347
7. Spa - 348
8. Zandvoort - 380
9. Silverstone - 592
10. Watkins Glen - 655
11. Monza - 773

From the ranking it appears that 3-8 are all about equally difficult to beat
the benchmark time. Monza on the other hand is obviously very easy to
beat, but Kyalami and Nurburgring have very fast benchmark times.
Strangely, Spa is one of the two benchmarks I haven't beaten and apparently
shouldn't be that tough. (The other is of course Nurburgring.)

It went right by me that the percentages were of world records.  Math
impaired, and attention impaired too!  My dumb.

Kurt

1.   Kyalami      - 107.7% (Maybe I'd make the cut if I drove for
Ferarri?<g>)
2.   Mexico       - 138.9%
3.   Monaco       - 129.5%
4.   Monza        - 104.7% (Of course...everybody'd make this one!)
5.   Mosport      - 118.5%
6.   Nuburgring   - 129.4%
7.   Rouen        - 115.3%
8.   Silverstone  - 108.6%
9.   Spa          - 111.8%
10.  Watkins Glen - 108.0%
11.  Zandvoort    - 116.8%

Knew I wasn't exactly the fastest, but come on!  Make one race, two if I
had some "political" clout?  Think comparing against the Papy benchmark
times would be better... <g>

--
Chuck Kandler

Windows is just a virus with a GUI

-----------------------------------------
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
http://simcrash.00game.com

Eldred
--
Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999
Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
GPL hcp. +52.52

Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
with experience...
Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

--
Chuck Kandler

Windows is just a virus with a GUI