Le Mans and old friends (or, diary of a madman)

Saturday: OK, I got the Le Mans track! I foolishly take the Brabham for a test drive. After 4 aborted laps, I went for the Eagle, my favourite car. Finally record some laps, times beginning with 4:xx. Oh dear. Decide to junk default setup and install Spa setup. Sunday: More testing and tweaking, can run consistent high 3:23s. Car is fishtailing everywhere. More tweaking. Car still very hyperactive, but decide I can live with it. Monday: Decide to have an Intermediate offline race against the AI. Set a 3:21 (PB) in practice, and am very pleased until Clark does a 3:16 and I'm ninth on the grid by end of session. From the grid, get a good start, and tear past Stewart, Surtees and Hulme, round Dunlop Curve, down to the first esses, My Eagle is given an almight whack from behind by a white car with a red stripe on it... Good practice start, I tell myself, and retire. Restart race. Again make a good start, make a few places, and all goes well until Mulsanne, when a big white car cruises up behind as I come up to the braking area for the hairpin at the end of the straight. Yes, I got airborne again, thanks to my Honda-driving pal. Restart race agin, telling myself it's all good practice. In fact, I proceed to spend a looong time practicing starts as on each of 5 more restarts, I am rear-ended by McLaren, Surtees, Amon and Surtees again (twice) before completing a lap, yet if I brake any later, I can't make the corners. I Give up. I thought this only happened at Monza? Am I doing something wrong? -- -Ace- (GPLRank -24.33) **remove BRAIN before replying**

I just finished a few slower laps with the RED car and was amazed to find that nasty white Honda tucked in behind me at the end of the Mulsaane straight(dang horsey mirrors!!) I figured I was a gonner by the next sharp lefty (is that Indianapolis?) that comes after a few gentle rights...but there too the white car behaved...I let him by at the esses with tthe buildings (coward I know!) so I didn't get to see how he behaved after the dunlop hill. But I was gonna post how mild mannered he was...of course this was practice not an actual race.... dave henrie "Ace" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aJVS6.46726$[email hidden]... > Saturday: OK, I got the Le Mans track! I foolishly take the Brabham for a > test drive. After 4 aborted laps, I went for the Eagle, my favourite car. > Finally record some laps, times beginning with 4:xx. Oh dear. Decide tojunk

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> default setup and install Spa setup. > Sunday: More testing and tweaking, can run consistent high 3:23s. Car is > fishtailing everywhere. More tweaking. Car still very hyperactive, but > decide I can live with it. > Monday: Decide to have an Intermediate offline race against the AI. Set a > 3:21 (PB) in practice, and am very pleased until Clark does a 3:16 and I'm > ninth on the grid by end of session. From the grid, get a good start, and > tear past Stewart, Surtees and Hulme, round Dunlop Curve, down to the

first > esses, My Eagle is given an almight whack from behind by a white car witha > red stripe on it... > Good practice start, I tell myself, and retire. Restart race. Again make a > good start, make a few places, and all goes well until Mulsanne, when abig > white car cruises up behind as I come up to the braking area for thehairpin > at the end of the straight. Yes, I got airborne again, thanks to my > Honda-driving pal. > Restart race agin, telling myself it's all good practice. In fact, Iproceed > to spend a looong time practicing starts as on each of 5 more restarts, Iam > rear-ended by McLaren, Surtees, Amon and Surtees again (twice) before > completing a lap, yet if I brake any later, I can't make the corners. IGive

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> up. I thought this only happened at Monza? Am I doing something wrong? > > -- > -Ace- > (GPLRank -24.33) > > **remove BRAIN before replying** > >

In article <aJVS6.46726$[email hidden]>, ace34 @BRAINukonline.co.uk says... > Restart race agin, telling myself it's all good practice. In fact, I proceed > to spend a looong time practicing starts as on each of 5 more restarts, I am > rear-ended by McLaren, Surtees, Amon and Surtees again (twice) before > completing a lap, yet if I brake any later, I can't make the corners. I Give > up. I thought this only happened at Monza? Am I doing something wrong? Are you braking late enough for the slow corners (Arnage, Mulsanne, Tetre Rouge)? I find that a car's length after the dark groove starts is the place to brake, but you do have to be instantly on the point of lock up to slow down enough make the corner. No problems with Surtees, but I'm not yet quick enough to win an offline race (typical lap 3.19-3.20) - Michael

In article <aJVS6.46726$[email hidden]>, "Ace" <[email hidden]> writes: >Restart race agin, telling myself it's all good practice. In fact, I proceed >to spend a looong time practicing starts as on each of 5 more restarts, I am >rear-ended by McLaren, Surtees, Amon and Surtees again (twice) before >completing a lap, yet if I brake any later, I can't make the corners. I Give >up. I thought this only happened at Monza? Am I doing something wrong? Sounds like my VROC races. If I brake early enough to make the corner, I get punted by the hotshoe I passed when he threw it off the track 2 turns earlier. :( That's why I prefer "no shift-r" races, but that's another thread... Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett F1 hcp. +24.63...F2 +151.26... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:IbYS6.110081$[email hidden]... > I just finished a few slower laps with the RED car and was amazed tofind > that nasty white Honda tucked in behind me at the end of the Mulsaane > straight(dang horsey mirrors!!) I figured I was a gonner by the nextsharp

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> lefty (is that Indianapolis?) that comes after a few gentle rights...but > there too the white car behaved...I let him by at the esses with tthe > buildings (coward I know!) > so I didn't get to see how he behaved after the dunlop hill. But I was > gonna post how mild mannered he was...of course this was practice not an > actual race.... > dave henrie

Your time will come... John Surtees- The SimRacing Ripper... -- -Ace- (GPLRank -24.33) **remove BRAIN before replying**