Bored of F1GP? Try this...

> Are you getting bored of F1GP, and eagerly awaiting F1GP2? If so try > this to revive your interest (for about 5 minutes anyway!!) > Remember last years F1 season when Schumacher (Booo) drove most a race > with only one gear (5th i think)? Now you to can emulate this > achievement. All I can remember about last year is Jos Verstappen getting cooked and Michel Schumacher 'removing' Damon Hill subtle-like from the Aussie GP.. Mmmm anyone got a suggestion about how we can emulate this??? :) Ray Ko School of Information Science, University of Portsmouth (UK)

>> Are you getting bored of F1GP, and eagerly awaiting F1GP2? If so try >> this to revive your interest (for about 5 minutes anyway!!) >> Remember last years F1 season when Schumacher (Booo) drove most a race >> with only one gear (5th i think)? Now you to can emulate this >> achievement. I did that (after the particular race) and indeed it was a lot of fun. It proved to me how great a sim F1GP really is. You can "replay" other F1 events as well. For instance when Hill rammed schu at Silverstone, I tried the same move on the computer cars. It takes some nudging, but it can be done. Of course the computer cars don't crash into you when you enter the apex on the inside. Simple, just ram the computer cars! Patrick

> You can "replay" other F1 events as well. Speaking of replay's has anyone know any good F1GP 'jump spots'.. you know, places where you fly over a corner? Ray Ko School of Information Science, University of Portsmouth (UK) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Desperation is not attractive" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

PL>>> Are you getting bored of F1GP, and eagerly awaiting F1GP2? If so PL>>> try this to revive your interest (for about 5 minutes anyway!!) PL>>> Remember last years F1 season when Schumacher (Booo) drove most PL>>> a race with only one gear (5th i think)? Now you to can emulate PL>>> this achievement. Since the computer cars are such rolling roadblocks at Monaco, I would set up my car so that it would only have 2nd through 5th gears...it helped to equalize things a bit. And woe be it if you actually tried to select 1st or 6th...I had 1st all the way to the left of the graph and 6th all the way to the right. "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams..." --Willie Wonka --- * CMPQwk #1.42-R2* UNREGISTERED EVALUATION COPY

Hey, I emulated Senna's crash at Tamburello and man, from the***pit of the car behind it looks so real that It's frightening ! Everytime I replay it, a shiver goes down my spine... ******************************************************************* When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by a an enormous blunder... John Kenneth Galbraith *******************************************************************

>> You can "replay" other F1 events as well. >Speaking of replay's has anyone know any good F1GP 'jump spots'.. you >know, places where you fly over a corner? The best must be the first corner o Bus Stop at Spa.I have a replay of my tuned car (999BHP) jumping over it and crashing against tha wall behind the second corner ! ******************************************************************* When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by a an enormous blunder... John Kenneth Galbraith *******************************************************************

>>Speaking of replay's has anyone know any good F1GP 'jump spots'.. you >>know, places where you fly over a corner? >The best must be the first corner o Bus Stop at Spa.I have a replay of my tuned car (999BHP) jumping >over it and crashing against tha wall behind the second corner ! Nah, the best is Shikane 1 at Hockenhiem. There's a replay on my website of someone jumping clean over another car. -- Gizmo http://www.mal.com/~dgymer/ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Launchpad is an experimental internet BBS. The views of its users do not necessarily represent those of UNC-Chapel Hill, OIT, or the SysOps. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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|> >Speaking of replay's has anyone know any good F1GP 'jump spots'.. you |> >know, places where you fly over a corner? |> |> Two spring to mind. The first is the first gear chicane at Imola - you |> can brake down from sixth to get it pointing in the right direction and |> then take the corner in fifth. |> The second is the chicane complex at Monza after the start-finish |> straight. This one tends to require some luck, but you can sometimes exit |> in fifth.

Does your car really jump at these two locations? I guess that's what the original poster meant. I'm not sure what you mean, perhaps 'simple' short- cutting the corners? The chicane at Monza can be taken in sixth, losing about 5-10 mph if done well and almost no speed if you do it perfectly. However I've been really 'flying' in my car when I drove _in the wrong direction_ at the chicane at Monza! The car was forced into the first curve (steering help) because I didn't hit the right angle, bumped into the curb at some 200 mph, was lifted into the air and flew quite over the whole chicane complex and a piece of straight track, but then crashed into the right wall (seen against racing direction). What a pity you can't save in simple practise! What I noticed is that F1GP doesn't seem to handle flying in a very 'realistic' way ;-) it's a mere vertical lifting of the car while it remains horizontal. (Not that I expected a real crash simulation <g> - perhaps in F1GP2?) Monza is also the only track where I have been able to do _quicker_ laps driving in the wrong direction (using shortcuts but no bhp cheating), about one to three seconds less. The crucial point is the chicane after the double chicane where you normally have to brake down to 2nd/3rd gear, it's possible to do it in 5th or even 6th the other way round. Maybe it's possible to go quicker on other tracks too, but you'll need a joystick/wheel with steering aid switched off. Juergen. \ / \\ // \\\ U /// ==ELITE== Juergen Athen \\\-/// jAmeson on IRC, NightFall =^= ^

Two spring to mind. The first is the first gear chicane at Imola - you can brake down from sixth to get it pointing in the right direction and then take the corner in fifth. The second is the chicane complex at Monza after the start-finish straight. This one tends to require some luck, but you can sometimes exit in fifth. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Richard C A Cullen | Postgraduate Student at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Dept of Electrical Engineering, ____________________________________|__________________________________

sideways skidding into all the high speed corners and reversing in the pit lane. So what if its ***ing illegal try reversing all your gear ratios so that you start in sixth gear about 11 and end up in first about5 (at hochenheim) So you down change up the straight and up change into the corners

>sideways skidding into all the high speed corners and reversing in the >pit lane. So what if its ***ing illegal >try reversing all your gear ratios so that you start in sixth gear >about 11 and end up in first about5 (at hochenheim) >So you down change up the straight and up change into the corners The gear ratios *have* to go up. Do you use an editor or what? I still don't get it and I doubt that it works like you describe. Patrick

On the backstraight at Imola, do not brake for the chicane (which leads to the next tight corner where you can either pit or turn on the main straight) and fly across the grass. You have two options, you can continue going straight up past the start-finish line or you can crash. If you crash right (hit the wall between the start/finish straight and the pit lane) you get airbourne and land on the other side of the wall! | | | | {car} | {wall} | {start/finish straight} | {wall} | {pit lane} | | | |