Lap RECORD Questions!

I saw the lap records that were posted and want to know how people do those times. I am a great driver like all of you, I drive at the limits of the car always. Now the settings I use are the normal ones with auto gear. Using this my best lap in practice (not during race weekend) on D tires is 1:17.334 at Canada. The record posted here before was 1:14.084. This is physically impossible with my settings and I tried other setting without much effect. The best that can be done with my settings seems to be a 1:16.500 or something. How do they do these times? Do they cheat or use some superior setup? Here are some more questions: -What input device do you use? Mouse etc -Do you use traction help? -Does manual gear-shifting give an advantage? -Is there an editor to give 999bhp? I see it mentioned here. -Where can I get this editor? What about that Lap counter or something in the article above? -Does anyone have a Mach64 2mb Vram videocard? If so does SVGA work for you? I can't get some programs to work with it. I am worried for F1GP2 of course! Please answer my questions and I will be most gratefull. Thanks,

Those times are qualifying times. They don't cheat, setups are very important. Most of the people drive with keyboard or with a joystick. You should use manual gear-shifting, because it WILL give you an advantage. If you don't use Traction help your times will be faster, but you have to learn to drive without traction help. You can change your bhp, for utilities checkout http://www.mal.com/~dgymer/home.html No I don't have a Mach64 2mb Vram, but with a vesa driver almost every svga game should work.

>I saw the lap records that were posted and want to know how people do >those times. I am a great driver like all of you, I drive at the limits >of the car always. Now the settings I use are the normal ones with auto gear. What do you consider a normal setting? Most beginning drivers tend to select an equal front and rear wing setting, which makes the car understeer quite a lot. Try F/R 59/37 for Montreal and set the brake balance to the rear (somewhere between 08R and 14R). This will give much better turn in. Don't use auto gear; with manual downshifting you get a better braking and cornering control. Try Q-tyres during qualifying; more grip and your car will be lighter due to less fuel. Most F1GP HOF drivers use a keyboard, some a joystick. The really fast guys don't, but it is very hard to control your car without traction help, especially when using a keyboard. I tried it for while, but I usually lose a lot of time in slow corners, more than I can make up on the rest of the track. Absolutely! >Thanks, You're welcome.

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>>I saw the lap records that were posted and want to know how people do >>those times. I am a great driver like all of you, I drive at the limits >>of the car always. Now the settings I use are the normal ones with auto gear. >What do you consider a normal setting? Most beginning drivers >tend to select an equal front and rear wing setting, which makes >the car understeer quite a lot. Try F/R 59/37 for Montreal and >set the brake balance to the rear (somewhere between 08R and >14R). This will give much better turn in. Don't use auto gear; >with manual downshifting you get a better braking and cornering >control. >>Using this my best lap in practice (not during race weekend) on D tires >>is 1:17.334 at Canada. The record posted here before was 1:14.084. This >>is physically impossible with my settings and I tried other setting >>without much effect. The best that can be done with my settings seems to >>be a 1:16.500 or something. How do they do these times? Do they cheat or >>use some superior setup? >Try Q-tyres during qualifying; more grip and your car will be >lighter due to less fuel. >>Here are some more questions: >>-What input device do you use? Mouse etc >Most F1GP HOF drivers use a keyboard, some a joystick. >>-Do you use traction help? >The really fast guys don't, but it is very hard to control your >car without traction help, especially when using a keyboard. I >tried it for while, but I usually lose a lot of time in slow >corners, more than I can make up on the rest of the track. >>-Does manual gear-shifting give an advantage? >Absolutely! >>Thanks, >You're welcome.

try softer rear suspension, and stiffen up the front end this should make the car twitchy and hard to drive in medium speed corners. But its how schumi sets up his car so it works!!!!!!!!!

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Hello, I'm Steven Mestdagh, ranked 1st in the f1gp hof >>>I saw the lap records that were posted and want to know how people do >>>those times. I am a great driver like all of you, I drive at the limits >>>of the car always. Now the settings I use are the normal ones with auto gear. How do we set lap records? Well, we start by creating a decent setup for each track, of course, to get a very fast laptime. Don't ever use the normal settings! On most tracks, you'll need to set the front wing at its maximum (64) to quickly drive through all bends, not at circuits like Hockenheim and Monza of course! CHEAT? Thanks a lot! No, in fact there is no way you can cheat, because Dave Gymer (the hof-manager) checks all fastest laps using GPPerf and GPLap utilities + authentication code (yes!) For good setups, take a look at the top 10 listing on Dave's web page or just mail him if you don't have www access. 1:14.084 is my best lap at Montreal, but don't think you can do such a time just like that, either! Yep, you can also get a little utility from www.mal.com, called QTyres, so you can use more than 4 sets of tyres per session. I use the keyboard too. Indeed, I don't use th. I'm always faster with th off than th on! YES Have fun breaking the lap records CU ALL

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> Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators > Subject: Lap RECORD Questions! > Date: 12 Oct 1995 17:24:25 -0400 > Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University > Lines: 25 > NNTP-Posting-Host: hopper.acs.ryerson.ca > X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] > I saw the lap records that were posted and want to know how people do > those times. I am a great driver like all of you, I drive at the limits > of the car always. Now the settings I use are the normal ones with auto gear. > Using this my best lap in practice (not during race weekend) on D tires > is 1:17.334 at Canada. The record posted here before was 1:14.084. This > is physically impossible with my settings and I tried other setting > without much effect. The best that can be done with my settings seems to > be a 1:16.500 or something. How do they do these times? Do they cheat or > use some superior setup? Here are some more questions: > -What input device do you use? Mouse etc * USE JOYSTICK* > -Do you use traction help? * NO * > -Does manual gear-shifting give an advantage? * YET BETYA IT DOES* > -Is there an editor to give 999bhp? I see it mentioned here. *YES BUT NOT USED* > -Where can I get this editor? What about that Lap counter or something in > the article above? > -Does anyone have a Mach64 2mb Vram videocard? If so does SVGA work for you? > I can't get some programs to work with it. I am worried for F1GP2 of course! > Please answer my questions and I will be most gratefull. > Thanks,

The reason the best times are so ***y fast is 'cos everyone uses faster FPS, on my old Amiga (it is relevant) I had what I believed to be seriously fast times especially on Pheonix, then I looked at the Hall Of Fame times when my dad bought a modem for his PC (i'm using it) anyway, they were much faster. I managed to get loads of software patches one of which sped up the FPS, went round my mates and we loaded them into his A1200 version of F1GP and I managed to go easily 2 seconds or more faster even though I had not played F1GP for a yr (sold my A500) and could have made up more time had I practiced. It's got something to do with the car responding more times a second to your input, which means braking, acceleration and cornering happen faster. THATS HOW THEY DO IT! ---------- Steve Hood "Is this testing whether I'm a replicant, or a ***, Mr Deckard?" "I'm not in the business... I am the business." BLADERUNNER.

Steven, I don't mean to sound like I doubt you but.....the KEYBOARD!?!?!? Really? I have set a 1:13.822 in qualifying at Montreal but I am using a good steering wheel (i.e. not a T1!) and pedals which makes the control much smoother. With joystick or keys I can only occasionally drop below 1:15 in qualifying sessions. In answer to the earlier questions (and to reitterate what the other guys are saying), set-up is all important to balance speed on the straights and in the corners. Smoothness through the corners, carrying as much speed as possible is also very important. Last minute locking the brakes and sliding through the corner is NOT a good driving technique!! Use GPPerf and combine with Steve Pritchard's excellent GPA program to analyse which laps were smoothest, where you gain time, where you lose and take it from there. If anyone wants some help, e-mail me and I'll send you my set-up for any track you're trying which should ensure you are at least starting with the competitive equipment. Utilities are available to glue you to the track or allow increased horsepower but they are not allowed in the competitions I drive in. All laps must have authentication file and prove 716hp, etc etc. Cheers! John

You are right that higher frame rates make you faster. But you are not completely right about that being the reason for fast times in the hof. In the Amiga HOF it's not allowed to have a higher frame rate than 10 fps. The original fps rate is 8 fps, and those extra 2 fps really don't give you 2 seconds gain. Any Amiga can pull 10 fps btw. On the PC HOF there's no restriction concerning the frame rate, as almost everyone uses 25 fps there. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rene Smit AKA The SDI, Technical University Delft Faculty of Computer Science <A HREF="[link lost in import: /~s777314/sdihome.html]">WWW</A>

: > I use the keyboard too. : Steven, I don't mean to sound like I doubt you but.....the KEYBOARD!?!?!? : Really? : I have set a 1:13.822 in qualifying at Montreal but I am using a good steering wheel (i.e. not a ^^^^^^^^ John, I don't mean to sound like I doubt you but.....1:13.822!?!?!? The HOF record is (at last check) a 1:14.3. I'd love to see the .PRF of that lap. Regards, --Brian Ferguson | "When I'm racing, I'm alive. | LFRS '95-96 --Newmarket, ON, CAN | Everything else is just | Uranus-Nissan --

>: > I use the keyboard too. >: Steven, I don't mean to sound like I doubt you but.....the KEYBOARD!?!?!? >: Really? YES, what else?! No, it's 1:14.084. Yeah, send us the prf of that. You didn't slipstream, did you? That's NOT allowed for hof records! Steven Mestdagh