Re: Today's CART race!

> Congrats to Max Papis on his first CART win! > anyone care to speculate about all the DNFs? > Congrats to the vest drivers in the world for a crash free race! > CART rules! > Papy needs to make a new CART sim! > (now it's on topic) Yeah - bit boring wasn't it. Nothing worse than loads of DNFs for making a race tedious. Hopefully either a short oval or road course next! - Michael

Congrats to Max Papis on his first CART win! anyone care to speculate about all the DNFs? Congrats to the vest drivers in the world for a crash free race! CART rules! Papy needs to make a new CART sim! (now it's on topic)

Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your message...

>Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your >message... If I made a boo boo I'm sorry.

If that heading needs a spoiler notation I'm Steve McQueen. ;-) Jan. =--- Steve Pritchard <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your > message...

I thought the subject was pretty obvious. If you don't want to know then you shouldn't come to the newsgroup and read messages with that subject matter. Michael K. Grandy Sr Proud Member of Precision Racing Professional Internet Race Team Powered by ECCI "ECCI - A proud sponsor of the 1998 NROS finals" The CDS4000 was designed for stock car racing... and it delivers NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, p.227, any and all nonsolicited commercial E-mail sent to [email hidden] is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of Five-Hundred Dollars U.S. E-Mailing denotes acceptance of these terms. Member of Nass 2000 Pro Online Series Member of OSCAR Freedom Cup Series Member of the National Invitational Series The NIS is sponsored by Thomas Enterprises "Steve Pritchard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your message...

If I made a boo boo I'm sorry.

No worries, but I was trying to avoid knowing the result of the race until I'd watched it later.

True to a certain extent, but it is possible to discuss a race without necessarily giving away the outcome. read messages with that subject matter.<< If I was being picky (which I'm not), then I could claim that I didn't read it on a CART newsgroup, and that the post had little to do with simulators (as, I think, the original poster conceded). Cheers, Steve.

> >Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your > >message... > If I made a boo boo I'm sorry. Naa, apart from having SPOILER written in your header, you made it fairly obvious as to what was in your post with that header, all IMHO of course :-) -- Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way * "Spamkiller" http://www.spamkiller.com

....or the Puma (UK Ford advert).

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> Hi Steve! Hows that gorgeous Mustang going (Bullit), or the bike (Great > Escape) or the Porsche (Le Mans)? :-) > -- > Regards, > Bruce Kennewell, > Canberra, Australia. > --------------------------- > > If that heading needs a spoiler notation I'm Steve McQueen. ;-) > > Jan. > > =--- > > > Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your > > > message...

Talking of CART...Isn't it about time we had a decent CART sim release? CPR (which wasn't even good anyway, IMHO) was a long time ago. Do MS own the exclusive rights to put one out? -- Colin Harris ColinHarris in N3/NL Proud co-owner - CLONE N.Legends league http://members.chello.se/clone/index.htm ICQ 25485061

> Talking of CART...Isn't it about time we had a decent CART sim release? CPR > (which wasn't even good anyway, IMHO) was a long time ago. Do MS own the > exclusive rights to put one out? Hiya "Bomber" :-) I must say that it puzzles me more than a bit that nobody seems to be working on one, at least not officially, given the relative high popularity of this series on a world wide basis, it should be possible to make money from such a title... Speaking of popularity, was the absence of a CART race on Eurosport this weekend something for this weekend only, or have they given up on the rights to show the races live ? I do believe that Papy actually has rights to do a CART sim, or at least they did not too long ago, if nothing else, we'd get more road courses for GPL and N3/TPTCC :-))) -- Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way * "Spamkiller" http://www.spamkiller.com

Can't speak for Norway, old chap, but we here in the UK got the whole race live, which caused the NASCAR Bristol race recording to be delayed at least 90 minutes...and thanks for remembering the Bomber bit! I just felt it was right to post/race under my real name....you (rarely) see an irresponsible driver using a real name (apart from me, of course) -- Colin Harris ColinHarris in N3/NL Proud co-owner - CLONE N.Legends league http://members.chello.se/clone/index.htm ICQ 25485061 > > Talking of CART...Isn't it about time we had a decent CART sim release? CPR > > (which wasn't even good anyway, IMHO) was a long time ago. Do MS own the > > exclusive rights to put one out? > Hiya "Bomber" :-) > I must say that it puzzles me more than a bit that nobody seems to be > working on one, at least not officially, given the relative high > popularity of this series on a world wide basis, it should be possible > to make money from such a title... > Speaking of popularity, was the absence of a CART race on Eurosport this > weekend something for this weekend only, or have they given up on the > rights to show the races live ? > I do believe that Papy actually has rights to do a CART sim, or at least > they did not too long ago, if nothing else, we'd get more road courses > for GPL and N3/TPTCC :-))) > -- > Beers and cheers > (uncle) Goy > "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ > "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ > * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way * > "Spamkiller" http://www.spamkiller.com

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> > Talking of CART...Isn't it about time we had a decent CART sim release? CPR > > (which wasn't even good anyway, IMHO) was a long time ago. Do MS own the > > exclusive rights to put one out? > Hiya "Bomber" :-) > I must say that it puzzles me more than a bit that nobody seems to be > working on one, at least not officially, given the relative high > popularity of this series on a world wide basis, it should be possible > to make money from such a title...

It should sell more than GPL because of larger appeal, but would it still be enough ? Eurosport dropped it because CART raised the price. The only motorsport we get in Norway this year is F1 with the excellent insight of Jon Herwig Carlsen :) First the loss of two great drivers, then the loss of a great team owner and then the loss of the whole coverage. It's so sad I don't know what to say. I posted some weeks ago a statement found on deja.com where someone from papy promised a new CART sim based on the GPL engine for 1999........ -- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

From now on, you only get to see it live if you have British Eurosport (which I don't!). Otherwise all you get is a midweek highlights show... -- Cheers! Graeme Nash

Vest racing, a new concept in Motorsport! :-) Better post the "features sheet" one more time... <g> -- Cheers! Graeme Nash

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:08 +0100 (BST), [email hidden] (Steve Pritchard) wrote: >Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your >message... Hmmm - If you don't want to know the result it's probably a mistake to read a message titled "Today's CART race!", don't you think? John

Having 'SPOILER' in the header would have allowed by OLR to tag it differently so I didn't automatically read it...

With hindsight, yes. However, there is nothing saying that the post was necessarily going to declare the result of the race. Steve.

I getting a bit bored of this, but to answer your question, Bruce, I would not 'blindly walk in'. All I asked (maybe I was a little sarcastic in my original post) is that an obvious 'SPOILER' tag be put on messages. In my defence, there is a lot of stuff that could have been in the original message, titled as it was, without giving the result away, e.g. "Did you see the way a few of the cars managed to collect themselves before hitting the wall, why can't I do that in ICR2?" "With all the engine retirements, it was like they were playing F1 2000" etc, etc... Anyway, I think I made my point, I'll not be mentioning it again. Cheers, Steve.

Hi Steve! Hows that gorgeous Mustang going (Bullit), or the bike (Great Escape) or the Porsche (Le Mans)? :-) -- Regards, Bruce Kennewell, Canberra, Australia. --------------------------- Jan Verschueren <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:xTFD4.41111$[email hidden]... > If that heading needs a spoiler notation I'm Steve McQueen. ;-) > > Jan. > =--- > Steve Pritchard <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Thanks for the large and obvious 'SPOILER' tag on the title of your > > message... > >

"Olav K. Malmin" wrote: > > It should sell more than GPL because of larger appeal, but would it still > be enough ? Well, they obviously sold enough copies of ICR1 to make a sequel......? > Eurosport dropped it because CART raised the price. The only motorsport we > get in Norway this year is F1 with the excellent insight of Jon Herwig > Carlsen :) Arrrrgggghhhhhh, the horror of it all, and then Harald Huysman as expert commentator, I can't take it anymore Best they've done so far, was in Aus with Atle Guldbrandsen (?) and Terje Schie > First the loss of two great drivers, then the loss of a great team owner and > then the loss of the whole coverage. It's so sad I don't know what to say. Yeah, never drove much of the CART sims, but the series is very good on TV, especially with guys like Zanardi, Montoya, Franchitti and (hate to admit it :-) Andretti, that knows how to race and overtake, great show > I posted some weeks ago a statement found on deja.com where someone from papy > promised a new CART sim based on the GPL engine for 1999........ Yes, I think that was a reply to the "public outcry" (hey, there was at least 3 of us :-) after they acquired the exclusive rights, but seemed to have not intentions of making the sim....guess only time will tell.... Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way * "Spamkiller" http://www.spamkiller.com

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:21 +0100 (BST), [email hidden] (Steve Pritchard) wrote: >Having 'SPOILER' in the header would have allowed by OLR to tag it >differently so I didn't automatically read it... How does your OLR know if you've seen the race or not? :-) John

It doesn't know if I've seen the race or not, but if it sees the word 'SPOILER' in the subject it marks it as read, and tags it. That way I don't open it by accident as I move from message to message. Cheers, Steve.

If you saw a fenced yard with a sign on the gate saying "Beware of the Dog", would you just blindly walk in? -- Regards, Bruce Kennewell, Canberra, Australia. --------------------------- Steve Pritchard <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > With hindsight, yes. However, there is nothing saying that the post was > necessarily going to declare the result of the race. > > Steve.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:19 +0100 (BST), [email hidden] (Steve Pritchard) wrote: >It doesn't know if I've seen the race or not, but if it sees the word >'SPOILER' in the subject it marks it as read, and tags it. That way I >don't open it by accident as I move from message to message. So you won't see this then....? Cheers! John

Nope. ;-)

Nope. ;-)