Another negative handicap in GPLrank

After obtaining 1.28.88 at Monza and 1.22.57 at Mosport today I finally got a negative handicap of -0.05. Like everyone (or so it seems), when I first got GPL I didn't really like it, played a few laps and it was left untouched for a long time. But after a friend convinced me it was really a good game once you learn to drive, I picked it up again and started driving :) So a few laps in last October, then lots more during December and finally a few laps in January finally did it :) (here "few" means anything from 1 to 50). Thanks to Malcolm Edeson for the GPLEGS tutorial (very helpful!) that helped push times down quite a bit, and then the final information came from J. Ketola regarding rear-wheel drive cars and how you should handle the spin :) (Never driven a rear-wheel drive car in RL, so of course, when the car started sliding I steered to the wrong direction... :-) Now I only need to find out where the missing 87 seconds or so are to catch GH ... :^) Regards, TTT aka Kanttu Vei GLPrank handicap -0.05

"Tauno Taipaleenmaki" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:93ifpu$ev1$[email hidden]... > After obtaining 1.28.88 at Monza and 1.22.57 at Mosport > today I finally got a negative handicap of -0.05. > Congrats! I just looked at your history - that's impressive going from the 60's to negative in a bit more than a month. Over the same period I went from -3.2 to -3.47 > > Now I only need to find out where the missing 87 seconds or > so are to catch GH ... :^) >Naw, set realistic goals: find the missing 3.5 or so seconds to catch me! You should be able to do it in a couple of days tops ;)

Tauno Taipaleenmaki <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:93ifpu$ev1$[email hidden]... > Now I only need to find out where the missing 87 seconds or > so are to catch GH ... :^) Hint hint.... look behind the old dresser. Thats where they always hide, those pesky lost seconds.... Mine have gotten smarter, the ones that got away last time must be under the floorboards, I'm hiring a demolition team one of the next few days. I WILL beat Huttu, even if it costs me my home to a bunch of burly men with a wrecking ball... and by the way, he's not a better driver than me, he's just lucky :) Mikkel -5.xx and still looking in the pockets of old jackets for about 85 missing seconds

In article <dR376.8693$[email hidden]>, "Rob" <[email hidden]> writes: >Congrats! I just looked at your history - that's impressive going from the >60's to negative in a bit more than a month. Over the same period I went >from -3.2 to -3.47 Son a BITCH! The situation, not any person in particular. He gained 60 seconds in a MONTH?!?<sigh> Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <dR376.8693$[email hidden]>, "Rob" > <[email hidden]> writes: > > >Congrats! I just looked at your history - that's impressive going fromthe > >60's to negative in a bit more than a month. Over the same period I went > >from -3.2 to -3.47 > > Son a BITCH! The situation, not any person in particular. He gained 60 > seconds in a MONTH?!?<sigh> I did 25 (48.xx -> 23.30) secs in 10 days, so I guess my 'time gain / # days' ratio is better... grtngs, hgrm

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> > Eldred > -- > Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats

you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

In article <93l651$cec$[email hidden]>, "Han Monsees" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>> >60's to negative in a bit more than a month. Over the same period I went >> >from -3.2 to -3.47 >> >> Son a BITCH! The situation, not any person in particular. He gained 60 >> seconds in a MONTH?!?<sigh> > >I did 25 (48.xx -> 23.30) secs in 10 days, so I guess my 'time gain / # >days' ratio is better... > >grtngs, >hgrm

You don't even WANT to know *my* ratio...<g> Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.