Negative ranking - finally!

Unlike in 1967 it's a hot evening at Mosport with the temperature at the cockpit reaching 30C (86F). Having long run out of adrenaline, valiant J. Ketola is shedding buckets of sweat trying to tame his Lotus49 around the twisty track in the beautiful Canadian countryside. Constantly lapping at hi 1:23's - low 1:24's he finds the track more annoying than anything else. Any attempt to push even a fraction harder results into an inevitable spin. But today he is determined. Then, all of a sudden, on lap 12 he nails it. A time of 1m22.92s puts him two tenths ahead of Doug Arnao's "benchmark" time, and - more importantly - a whole eight tenths below the magical Papyrus benchmark time. And the celebrations go on through the night! Okay, I don't generally speak about myself in third person :-) So yeah, a negative GPLRank after months of joy and grief (mostly joy, though). I made my first submission to GPLRank on 2000-10-10 07:01:37 and had a blinding handicap of 206.74. After getting in a decent lap at the ring I really started working on my handicap in December 2000. I managed to push down from 150 to about 50 in December, and down to around 30s in January. Unfortunately I didn't have the time nor patience to put down enough laps to bring my laptimes down any further, and I *really* didn't have the patience and consistency to put down a clean lap at the Ring. So I was stuck with a handicap of 30 and a Ring time of 8:48 for months with little intrest in working on it further. Meanwhile I took part in an F2F3 series and a Spring Series organized by the Finnish GPL Championships. The long races really helped me improve my driving and by the final race of the Spring Series at the N�rburgring I was already to put down several relatively fast (around 8:30) laps without crashing. At the race itself I ran out of fuel which *really* pissed me off since a finish at a race in the Ring had been a dream come true. The very next day, June 6th, I attacked the Ring. I bit its ankle, kicked its knee, and pulled its hair. And it caved in! I managed to put down a 8:24 lap which brought my handicap down to 6.15s. After that I put down a couple of laps at Silverstone, Monaco, Rouen, Mexico, and now Mosport, and shaved away some of the seconds I knew were lurking around the tight bends. Luckily I found 6.97 of them, which puts my handicap to -0.82. I would like to thank the following persons (in no particular order) for aiding me in my Quest. Malcolm Edeson for his excellent GPLegs package. Tauno Taipaleenm�ki for countless tips and continuous spurring. FGPLC for great on-line races. Samuli Takala for his work with FGPLC. Eldred Pickett for motivation. A negative St. Eldred's ranking was my number one goal for a very long time indeed. Don Scurlock and Uwe Schuerkamp for GPLRank. That's fairly obvious though, I guess :) Greger Huttu for some excellent (and some impossible) Lotus setups. Kai T�rm�nen for his Kyalami setup. Jonas Matton and Martin Granberg for GPL Replay Analyser Everyone out there releasing tools, modifications, and tracks that keep this masterpiece feeling as fresh as the day it came out of box. And Papyrus. Sincere apologies to everyone I forgot to mention - I'm sure there are many of you out there. I'm actually surprise if anyone had the stamina to make it all the way down here :-) So here we are, late 60's, going on 2001, and I just can't get enough. Minus ten, here I come! -Jari Please remove SPAMLESS before replying via email. Thank you. -- {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]

Congrats! The 'Ring sucked you in too? ;) -- /K-P

Well done Jari :) its a nice feeling now aim for the -22 needed to beat the real drivers 67 times. No rest for the wicked Paul Adams -5 GPL Rank

In article <9gb3tl$1nq$[email hidden]>, Koljonen Kari-Pekka wrote: >Congrats! Cheers! >The 'Ring sucked you in too? ;) Just when I thought I was out, it pulled me back in. -Jari Please remove SPAMLESS before replying via email. Thank you. -- {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]

Just one thing, didn't see this on your thanks list but have you seen the Lights Out Racing track guides? http://www.legendscentral.com/LOR/ Very very good guides with excellent ferrari and lotus F1 setups and replays, these helped me knock 25 sec off my gpl rank. Heartily recommended. Congratulations Jari. Jim "Jari Ketola" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9gb2l7$16$[email hidden]...

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> Unlike in 1967 it's a hot evening at Mosport with the temperature at the > cockpit reaching 30C (86F). Having long run out of adrenaline, valiant > J. Ketola is shedding buckets of sweat trying to tame his Lotus49 > around the twisty track in the beautiful Canadian countryside. Constantly > lapping at hi 1:23's - low 1:24's he finds the track more annoying than > anything else. Any attempt to push even a fraction harder results into an > inevitable spin. But today he is determined. > > Then, all of a sudden, on lap 12 he nails it. A time of 1m22.92s puts him > two tenths ahead of Doug Arnao's "benchmark" time, and - more importantly > - a whole eight tenths below the magical Papyrus benchmark time. And the > celebrations go on through the night! > > Okay, I don't generally speak about myself in third person :-) > > So yeah, a negative GPLRank after months of joy and grief (mostly joy, > though). I made my first submission to GPLRank on 2000-10-10 07:01:37 and > had a blinding handicap of 206.74. After getting in a decent lap at the > ring I really started working on my handicap in December 2000. I managed > to push down from 150 to about 50 in December, and down to around 30s in > January. Unfortunately I didn't have the time nor patience to put down > enough laps to bring my laptimes down any further, and I *really* didn't > have the patience and consistency to put down a clean lap at the Ring. > > So I was stuck with a handicap of 30 and a Ring time of 8:48 for months > with little intrest in working on it further. Meanwhile I took part in an > F2F3 series and a Spring Series organized by the Finnish GPL > Championships. The long races really helped me improve my driving and by > the final race of the Spring Series at the N�rburgring I was already > to put down several relatively fast (around 8:30) laps without crashing. > At the race itself I ran out of fuel which *really* pissed me off since > a finish at a race in the Ring had been a dream come true. > > The very next day, June 6th, I attacked the Ring. I bit its ankle, kicked > its knee, and pulled its hair. And it caved in! I managed to put down > a 8:24 lap which brought my handicap down to 6.15s. After that I put down > a couple of laps at Silverstone, Monaco, Rouen, Mexico, and now Mosport, > and shaved away some of the seconds I knew were lurking around the tight > bends. Luckily I found 6.97 of them, which puts my handicap to -0.82. > > I would like to thank the following persons (in no particular order) for > aiding me in my Quest. > > Malcolm Edeson for his excellent GPLegs package. > Tauno Taipaleenm�ki for countless tips and continuous spurring. > FGPLC for great on-line races. > Samuli Takala for his work with FGPLC. > Eldred Pickett for motivation. A negative St. Eldred's ranking was my > number one goal for a very long time indeed. > Don Scurlock and Uwe Schuerkamp for GPLRank. That's fairly obvious though, > I guess :) > Greger Huttu for some excellent (and some impossible) Lotus setups. > Kai T�rm�nen for his Kyalami setup. > Jonas Matton and Martin Granberg for GPL Replay Analyser > Everyone out there releasing tools, modifications, and tracks that keep > this masterpiece feeling as fresh as the day it came out of box. > And Papyrus. > > Sincere apologies to everyone I forgot to mention - I'm sure there are > many of you out there. I'm actually surprise if anyone had the stamina to > make it all the way down here :-) > > So here we are, late 60's, going on 2001, and I just can't get enough. > Minus ten, here I come! > > -Jari > > Please remove SPAMLESS before replying via email. Thank you. > -- > {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 > ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering > ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com > (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]

"Paul Adams" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:qc9W6.8871$X14.109052@NewsReader:

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> Well done Jari :) its a nice feeling > now aim for the -22 needed to beat > the real drivers 67 times. > > No rest for the wicked > > Paul Adams -5 GPL Rank

Congratulations to Jari and good luck in beating '67 times ;> Alex (alexti)

In article <PccW6.6030$[email hidden]>, Jim Seamus wrote: >Just one thing, didn't see this on your thanks list but have you seen the >Lights Out Racing track guides? >http://www.legendscentral.com/LOR/ Oh yeah, definitely. Especially the Rouen track guide helped me a great deal. Thanks LOR! -Jari Please remove SPAMLESS before replying via email. Thank you. -- {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]

On 14 Jun 2001 19:17:59 GMT, [email hidden] (Jari > >So yeah, a negative GPLRank after months of joy and grief (mostly joy, >though). Jari, Congratulations, very well done indeed. Maxx