Yet another GPLRank gloat

561 Topi Paavola Finland -0.39 2001-01-03 I would like to thank the academy... uh, anyway. I'm not really sure how long it took to get the negative rank. I got GPL at the end of 1999 and hotlapped for a while, but there was a long driving break during spring and summer. Then I suddenly got involved in a league, tried out VROC and you know the rest :) My first GPLRank entry is +109.22 from 26th November 2000. The end of the year was pretty good GPL-wise. There was a lot of time to practice during the holidays, and I shaved about 7 secs off my Ring record the day after Eldred's GP From Hell. At some point I suddenly got a Zen-like flash of understanding on how to enter corners (mainly turning in earlier and getting closer to the inside), which helped a lot. Big thanks go to the GPL Replay Analyzer team. The time difference graph and real-time plots are wonderful for discovering bad lines. Maxx's GPLEGS files are also dead on... I wish I had read them earlier. My Spa, Kyalami and Ring times still aren't negative, Spa being the hardest for me. Based on other tracks I think Kyalami will be easy if I try it with Lotus. After these three, Papyrus Benchmark is no longer on my buddy list. :) Now I can concentrate on the beginning league season and... Honda. Ugh. Anybody have good tips on how to make this thing go fast? :P - topi -- http://www.iki.fi/tjp/

> Now I can concentrate on the beginning league season and... Honda. Ugh. > Anybody have good tips on how to make this thing go fast? :P Put a lot of TNT underneath and light a match... ;-) > - topi Cheers, Herko

Put a lot of TNT underneath and light a match... ;-) Cheers, Herko

Topi Paavola wrote on 03 Jan 2001: <snip> >Spa being the hardest for me.<snip> That's unusual, actually. Try thinking of Spa as a longer and faster version of Mosport - the tracks share the same characteristics of long, sweeping curves and blind summits. I did this in reverse (because I found Spa one of the easiest tracks, but Mosport much harder), and it worked well. -- David. (GPLRank handicap: -5.92) The GPL Scrapyard - http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh.

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>Topi Paavola wrote on 03 Jan 2001: > ><snip> >>Spa being the hardest for me. ><snip> > >That's unusual, actually. Try thinking of Spa as a longer and faster >version of Mosport - the tracks share the same characteristics of long, >sweeping curves and blind summits. I did this in reverse (because I found >Spa one of the easiest tracks, but Mosport much harder), and it worked >well.

It is getting funny;> I have also found Spa the hardest track for me. I always felt that those unnecessarily long straight are intended to make me impatient. And (of course:>) I have found Mosport much easier. Even if I mess up a corner I exit it slower, gain less speed before the next corner, brake at my usual point (where I am usually outbrake myself) but this time it is just perfect because I am going a bit slowly. Alex (alexti) P.S. Congratulations to Topi!

Alex <[email hidden]> wrote: > It is getting funny;> I have also found Spa the hardest track for me. > I always felt that those unnecessarily long straight are intended to > make me impatient. And (of course:>) I have found Mosport much > easier. I have the same feeling. I've always found Spa a bit boring and frustrating. It was incredibly hard to drop even one second off the record. Did some Honda/Mosport practice yesterday. Every time I tweaked the setup and drove another 4-7 laps, the lap times would gradually drop from 1:25.xx to 1:24.0x (or 1:23 on lucky laps) and then I'd crash :) I'll have to stop pushing it too far. The car is getting there, though - I took Alison's setup, loosened it a bit and adjusted the gears. > P.S. Congratulations to Topi! Thanks. - topi -- http://www.iki.fi/tjp/

> It is getting funny;> I have also found Spa the hardest track for me. > I always felt that those unnecessarily long straight are intended to > make me impatient. And (of course:>) I have found Mosport much > easier. Same here. The shortness of the Mosport track makes it easier for me to learn and get into a rhythm than Spa. Bobby

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> > It is getting funny;> I have also found Spa the hardest track for me. > > I always felt that those unnecessarily long straight are intended to > > make me impatient. And (of course:>) I have found Mosport much > > easier. > > Same here. The shortness of the Mosport track makes it easier for me to > learn and get into a rhythm than Spa. >

I need those long straights for my slow brain to get itself prepared for the next corner. I never have the car settled at Mosport or Zandvoort, and as for Monaco... -- Tony Whitley GPLRank +10.65

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>> It is getting funny;> I have also found Spa the hardest track for me. >> I always felt that those unnecessarily long straight are intended to >> make me impatient. And (of course:>) I have found Mosport much >> easier. > Same here. The shortness of the Mosport track makes it easier for me to > learn and get into a rhythm than Spa.

Completely opposite to me. Spa is, in a word, hypnotic. It really makes me focus my mind on every corner exit, but Mosport is like wading in a tar-filled swimming pool wearing snow shoes. +Cinquo [38.43]

"Ville V Sinkko" <[email hidden]> wrote ... > but Mosport is like wading in a tar-filled > swimming pool wearing snow shoes. Interesting simile... have you been taking mind-expanding drugs or is the perpetual darkness in your part of the world getting to you :) -- Tony Whitley GPLRank +10.65 P.S. Oh all right, I know, you do see daylight in Helsinki.

Tony Whitley <t o n y . w h i t l e y @ nstplawmorld.com> wrote:

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> "Ville V Sinkko" <[email hidden]> wrote ... >> but Mosport is like wading in a tar-filled >> swimming pool wearing snow shoes. > Interesting simile... have you been taking mind-expanding drugs or is the > perpetual darkness in your part of the world getting to you :)

Blame Canada. .) > P.S. Oh all right, I know, you do see daylight in Helsinki. Sometimes, but not when we're indoors wrecking Ferraris. +Cinquo [36.xx]

In article <9325m9$69m$[email hidden]>, Ville V Sinkko <[email hidden]> writes:

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>Bobby <[email hidden]> wrote: >>> It is getting funny;> I have also found Spa the hardest track for me. >>> I always felt that those unnecessarily long straight are intended to >>> make me impatient. And (of course:>) I have found Mosport much >>> easier. > >> Same here. The shortness of the Mosport track makes it easier for me to >> learn and get into a rhythm than Spa. > >Completely opposite to me. Spa is, in a word, hypnotic. It really makes >me focus my mind on every corner exit, but Mosport is like wading in >a tar-filled swimming pool wearing snow shoes.

Spa is long periods of boredom interspersed with moments of abject terror... :) 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.

ROTFLAMO Is this an original Quote or borrowed Mark "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]. .. > Spa is long periods of boredom interspersed withmoments of abject terror... :) > > 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 downto his level, then beats you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

It is a new interpretation of an old saying....concering war. Replace Spa with war and you have the original message.(possibly air combat in paticular) dave henrie "Mark Aisthorpe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:d0_56.61073$[email hidden]...

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> ROTFLAMO > Is this an original Quote or borrowed > > Mark > > "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in > message > news:[email hidden]. > .. > > > Spa is long periods of boredom interspersed with > moments of abject terror... :) > > > > 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 <d0_56.61073$[email hidden]>, "Mark Aisthorpe" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>ROTFLAMO >Is this an original Quote or borrowed > >Mark > >"EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in >message >news:[email hidden]. >.. > >> Spa is long periods of boredom interspersed with >moments of abject terror... :)

It's borrowed and changed - I *think* it had something to do with the millitary...patrols, or something like that. It works for Spa though, dunnit? <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.