Re: GP3 - Some positive comments ..

Another rain post. :-) Come on, is GP3 only good for driving in the rain? In fact, make the whole game only racing in the rain. :-) "rrevved" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > I may d/l this thing and if it is as good as it sounds, I will place my order! > > http://forums.simracingnews.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000492.html > > jeda > Top Driver > Posts: 113 > Registered: Mar 2000 > posted July 23, 2000 13:37 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi all, > > I just finished my first 100% race distance Grand Prix at Spa. I had > raced a few quickrace before, but never longer than about 10 laps. I > race without using driving aids, but have set the difficulty level to > Amateur. I also use the default carsetup, which isnt that bad for Spa. > > The weather was looking good, all friday and saturday session were > dry, I did quite well and qualified on pole (rember: amateur level). > During warmup I did some long runs to see how the tyrewear was, but > 1/2 hour is very short to do some real testing. After the warmup > session I decided to go for a two stopstrategy because I was about two > sec faster than the rest of the field. > > Before the race I cheked the weather-report screen: Rain was expected! > There was an 80% change of rain after about 20 minutes. I thought, > well, will see about that later! This was my first big mistake! > > I had to much wheelspin at the start and lost 1 position to Mika, but > was able to overtake him the next lap at La Source hairpin. After > that, everything looked good for me, I was about 1,5 secs a lap faster > than Mika and was starting to create a gap. I was hoping that the gap > would be about 15-20 sec when I had to make my first planned stop at > lap 15. > > But than things started to look bad :-( The clouds were getting darker > and at lap 11 it started to rain. BUT it only rained at the back of > the track, s/f was completely dry! The gap I had to Mika was about 12 > sec at that point and it started to decrease with about 1 sec a lap! > > The weather was also getting worse at the back part of the track, at > s/f it was still sunny. At lap 14 my pitstop light flashed on at my > dash. I really started to panic, my gap was decreasing, the weather > looked unpredictable and my setup was terrible on the wet parts of the > track. I than hit the enter key because I wanted to wait another lap > to see what the wheater was doing (I had still fuel for about 3 laps). > As the weather was getting worse and worse at the back part of the > track, so was my gap, only 5 secs left. > > In lap 18 I had to pit because I hadnt enough fuel for another lap. > Because only the half of the track was wet I decided to cgange to > intermediates. Again, a bad choice. When I left the pit I was in 3rd > position, and after 3 laps I realised my mistake: It was starting to > rain all over the track. Immediatly a lot of AI cars went to the pit. > Because I had just made my stop, I wouldnt want to lose another 30sec > witn another stop to get wettyres (obviously another mistake). After > strugling for about another 8 laps (i didnt lose any positions, but I > wasnt quicker than Schumi who was 2nd) it stopped raining. My > intermediate tyres started to work :-). > > In lap 28 a dry line showed up and with only 2 laps to go for my > second stop I wasnt sure what to do. Once again I decide to stay out > as long as possible. Then I remembered something from real F1 races: > Cooling your tyres by driving through wet spots on the track. It tried > it on the straights and saw in my mirrors the waterspray of my tyres, > which wasnt there when I drove on the dry raceline. Almost immediately > my laptimes improved! I was so exited that I almost forgot about my > second pitstop. > > At my second stop I decided to go back to normal, dry weather tyres. > From that point everything started to look better. Schumi had a lead > of 23sec and Irvine was about 6sec behind me. > > In lap 37 I went wide at Les Combes and got of the dryline in the wet. > I lost all grip and immediately spun off the track! Irvine passed me > and when I was back on the track he had al lead of 7sec. > > But in the dry I was a lot faster and with only 3 laps to go I was > able to pass him. > > Because I was so exited I spun in the last lap and Irvine passed me > again :-( > > I finished 4th, Mika 1st and Schumi 2nd. > > After the race I was think about what went wrong: > > 1. I had the wrong car setup. After the weather predictions I should > have opted for an intermediate setup. > > 2. I had not flexibilty in my stategy at all, next race I will try to > take enough fuel for at least 50% race distance. > > 3. I waited too long to change to intermediates, or I had to wait > longer and change to wets. > > I really enjoyed this race, it was my best race ever (including VROC > GPL races which are great too). I think GP3 is the first real complete > F1 simulator, and not just a race simulator as GPL is. Being able do > do some quicklaps is not enough to be succesfull in GP3. You really > have to think about your strategy! This is what I miss in GPL and > other sims. > > Cheers, > JeDa >

Still, it is the rain part that GP3 fans like the most. :-) "JeDa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:zYPe5.421$[email hidden]...

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> > Victor Chan <[email hidden]> schreef in berichtnieuws > XTLe5.12926$[email hidden]... > > Another rain post. :-) Come on, is GP3 only good for driving in the rain? > In fact, make > > the whole game only racing in the rain. :-) > > > I Think you dont get it. The post is not about the wet weather, but about > dynamic weather. If GP3 had only wet weather races (as you suggest) it would > be imho as boring as GPL. The dynamic weather makes GP3 a excellent F1 sim > and not just an hotlap sim with great physics such as GPL. > >

Victor Chan <[email hidden]> schreef in berichtnieuws XTLe5.12926$[email hidden]... > Another rain post. :-) Come on, is GP3 only good for driving in the rain?In fact, make > the whole game only racing in the rain. :-) >I Think you dont get it. The post is not about the wet weather, but about dynamic weather. If GP3 had only wet weather races (as you suggest) it would be imho as boring as GPL. The dynamic weather makes GP3 a excellent F1 sim and not just an hotlap sim with great physics such as GPL.

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 04:54:48 GMT, "Victor Chan" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Still, it is the rain part that GP3 fans like the most. :-) And what is wrong with that? It *contains* dynamical weather, so it seems reasonable to take the dynamical weather into account when evaluating the product. JoH