Overtaking in Sims

I always watch the F1 races on tv. You often see cars right up with each other, like 0.9 - 1.3 seconds apart. Whenever I am on indycar i always manage to either be a long way behind a car or much further ahead. I can never be behind a car, close up, for very long. I also never get other cars right up on my rear wing for very long either. Will GP2 be more realistic and I be right up battling close with other cars? Andrew Easter Andrew Easter

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> I always watch the F1 races on tv. You often see cars right up with each > other, like 0.9 - 1.3 seconds apart. Whenever I am on indycar i always > manage to either be a long way behind a car or much further ahead. I can > never be behind a car, close up, for very long. I also never get other > cars right up on my rear wing for very long either. Will GP2 be more > realistic and I be right up battling close with other cars? > Andrew Easter > Andrew EasterI have found this to be true in most sims if you dont set the opponent

strength near your own level of ability. I have experienced many enjoyable laps wheel to wheel or nose cone to gear box when the opponent level was set correctly for me. You can usually tell if you have it set correctly by your qualifying times. If you are qualifying more than about a half a second faster than anyone else, it will probably be a dull race, and vice versa, as you'll likely never get a chance to catch the front runners.

> I always watch the F1 races on tv. You often see cars right up with each > other, like 0.9 - 1.3 seconds apart. Whenever I am on indycar i always > manage to either be a long way behind a car or much further ahead. I can > never be behind a car, close up, for very long. I also never get other > cars right up on my rear wing for very long either. Will GP2 be more > realistic and I be right up battling close with other cars? One word - NASCAR. bob

Keep practicing. You'll get there.

: > : > I always watch the F1 races on tv. You often see cars right up with each : > other, like 0.9 - 1.3 seconds apart. Whenever I am on indycar i always : > manage to either be a long way behind a car or much further ahead. I can : > never be behind a car, close up, for very long. I also never get other : > cars right up on my rear wing for very long either. Will GP2 be more : > realistic and I be right up battling close with other cars? : One word - NASCAR. : bob F1GP (the original) does this too. YOu can scream right up to the rear of another car and sit there if you want. When you get so close you start to draft him and your revs will shoot up and then you can sling-shot past the car. I've tried this in ICR and it just doesn't work. Ok maybe it works but it's a lot harder to do because the car isn't as responisive as in F1GP. It feels like it's "sloshing" around. -- -- Dave

Ya, I wouldn't say it is ICR2's fault that the original poster is finding too big a spread between cars; when I am racing with the competition set right at my level of ability, I am always in close quarters. I've really been getting in to racing Portland lately; I have to be very, very careful not to touch the other cars for most of the race. You might want to try another car set, also. The Drivers2.txt settings can make a big difference in what kind of traffic you find yourself in.