GP2 - which car should you take

If Crammond used the same system as in F1GP1, there shouldn't be ANY difference at all! The car you choose in F1GP1 simply becomes the "player's car" with fixed BHP-settings no matter what team you chose. But this is Grand Prix TWO, so I don't really know for sure of course.... "Gravity doesn't exist; the Earth sucks!"

I suggest you take Jos verstappen in the second Benneton.... Then you drive a great car and you can compete with te top drivers !!! Cheers, Patrick

> I suggest you take Jos verstappen in the second Benneton.... > Then you drive a great car and you can compete with te top drivers !!! > Cheers, Patrick Is there any performance difference when you choose difference cars? Richard Welcome to my web page ---> http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~wyip Know yourself, know your enemies, and you will win 100 battles - Sun Tzi

Hi! After playing GP2 for fun the last days, now I want to start a big season! And now I ask myself which car should I take! I want to drive against the top-drivers (like Schumacher, Hill, Coulthard etc.) and so I take a driver of the lower-field and replace his name with mine. Now I don't know, if this car is slower than the others? Do you have any ideas? Patrick

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> Hi! > After playing GP2 for fun the last days, now I want to start a big season! > And now I ask myself which car should I take! I want to drive against the > top-drivers (like Schumacher, Hill, Coulthard etc.) and so I take a driver > of the lower-field and replace his name with mine. > Now I don't know, if this car is slower than the others? > Do you have any ideas? > Patrick

Personally, I'm lost on the car selection process. I'm using the Farrarri's (sp?) at the moment. But your question is an important one. What are the differences in the 14 teams/cars. I used to believe that Williams were "faster", Farrarri's were better in corners, Lotus was....etc, but I don't know now at all. I hope somebody who knows F1 racing can shed some light on this. I'm also, not entirely sure that there is a big difference in any case as you can adjust so many of the car's settings I suppose you could get a Williams to run like a Lotus...Huh? Good question...Which car/team. JEB in Vegas

<snip> <snip> I think this is also in GP2. I did some quick tests, and didn't notice any differences between cars. For example I used identical setups for Williams and Simtek. I accelerated from standing start from the end of pit road at Hockenheim to first "100" sign and reached exactly same speed (315 kph) with both cars. I'm bit disappointed about this. GP2 has five fixed difficulty settings, and once you've reached ACE level, there's no more challenge. But changing from Williams or Benetton to midfield team would increase difficulty considerably... Pasi.

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|> Hi! |> |> After playing GP2 for fun the last days, now I want to start a big season! |> And now I ask myself which car should I take! I want to drive against the |> top-drivers (like Schumacher, Hill, Coulthard etc.) and so I take a driver |> of the lower-field and replace his name with mine. |> Now I don't know, if this car is slower than the others?

I don't think it makes a difference. YOUR car always has the same performance/handling :( (I would love it to race as a backmarker sometimes) I don't think the other cars (when using the 1994 performance) have different setups or different handling concerning turns/straights, I guess it's only engine power :( (please correct me if you know better!) Have FUN! Herbert

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>> Hi! >> After playing GP2 for fun the last days, now I want to start a big season! >> And now I ask myself which car should I take! I want to drive against the >> top-drivers (like Schumacher, Hill, Coulthard etc.) and so I take a driver >> of the lower-field and replace his name with mine. >> Now I don't know, if this car is slower than the others? >> Do you have any ideas? >Personally, I'm lost on the car selection process. I'm using >the Farrarri's (sp?) at the moment. But your question is an >important one. What are the differences in the 14 teams/cars.

<snip> >JEB in Vegas I too would like some input here but at Ace Level My Jordan - I replace Eddie Irvine - can win at Monza. Ya gotta tweak tho and I am still unhappy with my settings as they are still a second or so off the records. Guess I was too used to holding all records at all tracks with F1GP :) If there is a performance degradation, this isn't such a bad team to select as the cars themselves performed reasonably ok in 94. I want to use one of the old no hoper cars if anyone can confirm I am not crippling my chances of doing well. I am also concerned about the random faults, If I pick a team that had a high proportion of failiures am I also going to suffer that, or are they truly random. At present I have all random faults de selected :)

>> I suggest you take Jos verstappen in the second Benneton.... >> Then you drive a great car and you can compete with te top drivers !!! >> Cheers, Patrick >Is there any performance difference when you choose difference cars? NO :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ville Kopu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ViK at IRC, #f1 & #gp2 http://koti.kolumbus.fi/~vkopu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Second is first of loserS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In F1GP1, all AI-cars had the same wing-settings etc, although they changed depending on the circuit. Dave Gymer wrote a utility to change their setup. Jo "Gravity doesn't exist; the Earth sucks!"

>In F1GP1, all AI-cars had the same wing-settings etc, although they changed >depending on the circuit. Yes, except that the game adjusts each car by some random offset so that they're all subtely different. I would imagine it's the same in GP2. --

>I suggest you take Jos verstappen in the second Benneton.... >Then you drive a great car and you can compete with te top drivers !!! >Cheers, Patrick Dont forget your fire-resistant underpants though!

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> >Personally, I'm lost on the car selection process. I'm using > >the Farrarri's (sp?) at the moment. But your question is an > >important one. What are the differences in the 14 teams/cars. > >I used to believe that Williams were "faster", Farrarri's were > >better in corners, Lotus was....etc, but I don't know now at all. > >I hope somebody who knows F1 racing can shed some light on this. > >I'm also, not entirely sure that there is a big difference in > >any case as you can adjust so many of the car's settings I > >suppose you could get a Williams to run like a Lotus...Huh? > >Good question...Which car/team. > If Crammond used the same system as in F1GP1, there shouldn't be ANY difference > at all! The car you choose in F1GP1 simply becomes the "player's car" with fixed > BHP-settings no matter what team you chose. > But this is Grand Prix TWO, so I don't really know for sure of course.... > "Gravity doesn't exist; the Earth sucks!"

I've tested the same setup with Ferrari, Williams, Lotus and Sauber - no difference at all. But in one race with Ferrari, the car stopped with motor damage. That's realism! Robin =========================================================== flux GbR Tel: +4930-859 32 02 Bennigsenstr. 11a Fax: +4930-859 99 331 http://www.flux-online.de ===========================================================

I know I'm going to take the #2 Williams - the objective being, to win the championship that _should_ have been won in that car. Assuming that they actually get around to releasing the game in the US, that is...... Rick

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|> |> Hi! |> |> |> |> After playing GP2 for fun the last days, now I want to start a big season! |> |> And now I ask myself which car should I take! I want to drive against the |> |> top-drivers (like Schumacher, Hill, Coulthard etc.) and so I take a driver |> |> of the lower-field and replace his name with mine. |> |> Now I don't know, if this car is slower than the others? |> |> I don't think it makes a difference. YOUR car always has the same |> performance/handling :( (I would love it to race as a backmarker sometimes) |> |> I don't think the other cars (when using the 1994 performance) have different |> setups or different handling concerning turns/straights, I guess it's |> only engine power :( (please correct me if you know better!)

Ok, I watched a full GP distance, and now I know better: The Benettons are faster in turns and slower on straights (less topspeed) compared to Ferraris. Performance changes a bit after pitstops! (I had Schumacher catching Coulthard (SP?) before the first stop, then Coulthard was faster and passed Schumi after the stop. This was not affected by lapping actions or drafting each other and both used the same pitting strategy) I don't know whether this is true for the user car too. (sometimes I had the feeling that the Benetton has a bit more traction in turns, but this may be a psycholocical effekt... Topspeed was the same for Benetton and Ferrari when I checked the cars with the same setup... Herbert

I have experienced different top speeds with different cars at Monza, Ferrari being the fastest. That is all I can tell.... JFD

According to the team who developed and tested the game, ALL of the cars have different performances, power etc, BUT when selected by the player ALL of the cars perform like a Williams. Cheers! John _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ ________| |__| :| John Wallace | |__| |________ \ :| |::| :| Team WW Racing TSW | |::| | / > :| |::| :|_________________________________| |::| | < / :|__|::|____/ * Sim Racing News * \____|::|__| \ /______:/ \::/ http://sneezy.dcn.ed.ac.uk/simnews/index.htm \::/ \._____\ http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~harmon/simnews

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>>I have experienced different top speeds with different cars at Monza, >>Ferrari being the fastest. That is all I can tell.... >According to the team who developed and tested the game, ALL of the cars >have different performances, power etc, BUT when selected by the player >ALL of the cars perform like a Williams. >Cheers! >John

Sure wish that wasnt true. Right now the sim is *** my butt, there will come a time though when I wish to challenge Schumacher in a SIMTEK <VBG> be nice if it performed like one. Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand

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