Help with PlayStation F1 !

Hi, Is anyone having the same problem as me? I am playing a championship season under Grand Prix mode, medium difficulty, auto gears, damage on, 10% race distance. Everything is fine, I have practised until I am now able to usually qualify in the top 5 and can push hard for the lead in a race UNTIL THE LAST LAP. On the last lap (or occasionally towards the end of the previous lap) the performance of the car goes off to such an extent that the car cannot take any acceleration at all around corners. The last race I ran was Hungary, I was leading until the last lap upon which I lost over 50 seconds and finnished about 15th. I simply span the car on almost every corner. Anyone any advice ? Phil.

snip Well this may not be the cause of your problem, but if you've got tire wear turned on (I seem to remember this being a seperate setting from damage, but I may be wrong - this is from a very poor memory), then with short races the tires go off BADLY in the last couple of laps or so causing the car to slide all over the place.

I did a full season with exactly the same settings as you and never had any problems. I won the championship quite convincingly. I have even done several full distance races on the hard level with reasonable success. Oh yeah if you win the championship you will get access to the bonus track, Frameout City. Rich. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

At last-it's happened to someone else - same happened to me on a 25% race in Championship mode,full season-I was at Monza,15s ahead of Alesi on the last lap when on the long straight his Ferrari sailed past me into the distance.Same happened at Monaco when,would you believe it,Hakkinen passed me on the last lap despite me leading for 8 laps and taking a 14s lead into the final lap.I'm now getting seriously pissed off with this happening and am considering if it is worthy starting a 100% full race distance for the winter season if this carries on.But what can we do?

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>snip >> On the last lap (or occasionally towards the end of the previous lap) >> the performance of the car goes off to such an extent that the car >> cannot take any acceleration at all around corners. The last race I >>snip > Well this may not be the cause of your problem, but if you've got >tire wear turned on (I seem to remember this being a seperate setting >from damage, but I may be wrong - this is from a very poor memory), >then with short races the tires go off BADLY in the last couple of laps >or so causing the car to slide all over the place.

I have already posted on this thread but I should have added that I have done full race distances at tracks Spa and Suzuka with little obvious tyre wear. Pitting at one third distance at Suzuka showed about 300% tyre wear and my fastest lap was quite early in the stint but I wasn't all over the place. I, however, use a neGcon controller which may easy wear with the analogue steering, throttle and brakes. Rich. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------