GPL - Landmarks!

I've reached some personal landmarks in the last week: Silverstone - sub 1:30 Monza - sub 1:29 the 'Ring - sub 9:00 The one that felt 'best' was Silverstone; an admittedly scrappy lap, but I never thought I'd break 1:30.....it felt MUCH better than when I broke 1:30 at Monza! Now if I could just reach a sub 8:30 at the 'Ring.....

Craig Jones <[email hidden]> wrote on 10 Oct 2001: <snip> > The one that felt 'best' was Silverstone; an admittedly scrappy > lap, but I never thought I'd break 1:30.....it felt MUCH better > than when I broke 1:30 at Monza!<snip> I like Silverstone - I think it gets a bit of a raw deal in the circuit stakes. With a nicely set up car, you can oversteer most of the way :-) -- One-line reply + 300-line quote = unread post. The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

"Craig Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:xr_w7.11656$[email hidden]:

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> I've reached some personal landmarks in the last week: > > Silverstone - sub 1:30 > > Monza - sub 1:29 > > the 'Ring - sub 9:00 > > The one that felt 'best' was Silverstone; an admittedly scrappy lap, > but I never thought I'd break 1:30.....it felt MUCH better than when I > broke 1:30 at Monza! > > Now if I could just reach a sub 8:30 at the 'Ring.....

Congratulations Craig! Your landmarks surprise me. Not themselves but rather combination of them. When I've managed to go sub 1:29 at Monza my 'Ring times were below 8:20 and my Silverstone times around that time were sub 1:28. If you practice these tracks a bit more you'll probably get big improvement. Good luck, Alex.

Congrats. Silverstone was a nice one for me to crack. Now all I have to do is practice Rouen a bit more... Rafe Mc On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:12:13 GMT, "Craig Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I've reached some personal landmarks in the last week: > >Silverstone - sub 1:30 > >Monza - sub 1:29 > >the 'Ring - sub 9:00 > >The one that felt 'best' was Silverstone; an admittedly scrappy lap, but I >never thought I'd break 1:30.....it felt MUCH better than when I broke 1:30 >at Monza! > >Now if I could just reach a sub 8:30 at the 'Ring..... >

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Rafe McAuliffe) writes: >Congrats. Silverstone was a nice one for me to crack. Now all I have >to do is practice Rouen a bit more... > Ugh. I *hate* that track. I ran a league race this past saturday. I was about 8 seconds per lap off the pace.<shudder> To show you how bad it was, I got lapped. Near the end of the lap(Scierie) the leader spun. I checked the replay after the race. Even with me holding him up for part of the lap(unintentionally), and his spin, he was STILL 2 seconds faster than my fast lap in that race!<sigh> Eldred Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett F1 hcp. +16.36...Monster +360.54... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

This could take a while ;-) JensSchumi On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:12:13 GMT, "Craig Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip> >Now if I could just reach a sub 8:30 at the 'Ring..... > --------------------------------------------- LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: http://jensschumi.tripod.com/ GPLRank: -14.82 Monsters of GPL: sub 95

On 12 Oct 2001 00:55:38 GMT, [email hidden] (EldredP) wrote:

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>In article <[email hidden]>, >[email hidden] (Rafe McAuliffe) writes: > >>Congrats. Silverstone was a nice one for me to crack. Now all I have >>to do is practice Rouen a bit more... >> > >Ugh. I *hate* that track. I ran a league race this past saturday. I was >about 8 seconds per lap off the pace.<shudder> To show you how bad it was, I >got lapped. Near the end of the lap(Scierie) the leader spun. I checked the >replay after the race. Even with me holding him up for part of the >lap(unintentionally), and his spin, he was STILL 2 seconds faster than my fast >lap in that race!<sigh> > >Eldred

LOL - hey, you've still got better times than me at a few tracks, the Ring in particular. I need to get more consistency to be able to hold a decent lap together there. 9 seconds off the St Eldred's cup and working at it! Rafe Mc

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Rafe McAuliffe) writes:

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>>Ugh. I *hate* that track. I ran a league race this past saturday. I was >>about 8 seconds per lap off the pace.<shudder> To show you how bad it was, >I >>got lapped. Near the end of the lap(Scierie) the leader spun. I checked >the >>replay after the race. Even with me holding him up for part of the >>lap(unintentionally), and his spin, he was STILL 2 seconds faster than my >fast >>lap in that race!<sigh> >> >>Eldred > >LOL - hey, you've still got better times than me at a few tracks, the >Ring in particular. I need to get more consistency to be able to hold >a decent lap together there. 9 seconds off the St Eldred's cup and >working at it! > >Rafe Mc >

I've cleared my records file. I think some of those laps were either warp or speedshifting. I can't even get CLOSE to some of those times now. I'm going back through driving as if I were racing. No speedshifting, etc. After I run enough laps to get a rank, I'll upload again. Is the site working again yet? I'm guessing I'll probably be about 20 seconds slower across all 11 tracks. That would put me at about +36. Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett F1 hcp. +16.36...Monster +360.54... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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> >I've cleared my records file. I think some of those laps were either warp or >speedshifting. I can't even get CLOSE to some of those times now. I'm going >back through driving as if I were racing. No speedshifting, etc. After I run >enough laps to get a rank, I'll upload again. Is the site working again yet? >I'm guessing I'll probably be about 20 seconds slower across all 11 tracks. >That would put me at about +36. > >Eldred

I'm sure you'll surprise yourself, I never thought I'd get close to some of my times but I'm always able to get close or beat them with a bit of practice. Except my 1:30 at Monaco, that was a bit of a fluke :D GPLRank is still going at http://newgplrank.schuerkamp.de/ I was wondering why it had been so long since you'd updated. Rafe Mc