GP3: good vs bad

After playing GP3 for a couple of weeks I am sort of puzzled by one comments and absense of other comments. 1. The worst problem I have noticed -- in some places it's possible to run far behind the curbes. On the screen it looks that two wheels are clearly on grass or gravel and the car still behaves as if all 4 wheels were on the track. Is it fixable somehow? Modified tracks maybe? 2. Canned spins. Many commented on that, but I didn't find a way to invoke any of them. All that I have were quite realistic and usually catchable. Maybe controller setup issue? 3. The lap time and gaps between the car usually appear on the screen when I busy driving through the 1st or 2nd corner of the next lap. I would like to have them displayed when the car is on the straight. Does any utility can fix it? 4. How to set default fuel load when practicing? I have to change it all the time. I would think that their default (4) is reasonable if I use qualifying setup, but why 4 for the race setup? 5. Is wet weather realistic? It rather feels to me as driving on worn tires in dry. But, of course, I've never driven F1 car in wet, so I can't claim that something is wrong about that:) So where is a "good" promised in header, one may ask:) - I like game in general. Thanks for any suggestions in advance, Alex.

>>After playing GP3 for a couple of weeks I am sort of puzzled byone comments and absense of other comments. 1. The worst problem I have noticed -- in some places it's possible to run far behind the curbes. On the screen it looks that two wheels are clearly on grass or gravel and the car still behaves as if all 4 wheels were on the track. Is it fixable somehow? Modified tracks maybe?<< I agree - this is applicable in quite a few places. >>2. Canned spins. Many commented on that, but I didn't find a wayto invoke any of them. All that I have were quite realistic and usually catchable. Maybe controller setup issue?<< I'm not sure that there are 'canned' spins, but one thing I have noticed is that if you get out of shape and start to spin, slam on the brakes, then the rotation stops, but re-starts when you come off the brakes. >>3. The lap time and gaps between the car usually appear on thescreen when I busy driving through the 1st or 2nd corner of the next lap. I would like to have them displayed when the car is on the straight. Does any utility can fix it?<< Press 'G'. I'm sure in previous versions of GP it sort of remembered when you pressed 'G' on previous laps, but I'm not sure whether I'm making it up, and whether it's in GP3. >>4. How to set default fuel load when practicing? I have to changeit all the time. I would think that their default (4) is reasonable if I use qualifying setup, but why 4 for the race setup?<< True. >>5. Is wet weather realistic? It rather feels to me as driving onworn tires in dry. But, of course, I've never driven F1 car in wet, so I can't claim that something is wrong about that:)<< I guess it's just modelled as less grip - the cause for the lack of grip is probably unimportant. >>So where is a "good" promised in header, one may ask:) - I like gamein general.<< Yeah, me too. Cheers, Steve.

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> >>2. Canned spins. Many commented on that, but I didn't find a way > to invoke any of them. All that I have were quite realistic and > usually catchable. Maybe controller setup issue?<< > > I'm not sure that there are 'canned' spins, but one thing I have noticed > is that if you get out of shape and start to spin, slam on the brakes, > then the rotation stops, but re-starts when you come off the brakes.

At the exit of the corner it seems to be logical if you have throttle and brakes on one axis. Then slamming brakes is equivalent of lifting off. In other circumstances it sometime behaves this way, but other times not. I believe it happens when the car setup with huge oversteer, though I don't understand why braking would stop the spin. Alex.