Papy Cup Nurburging

Matt Sentell won Thursday's Papy Cup event at Nurburgring, with Silverstone winner Rich Yasi second and Randy Cassidy third. Series leader Dave Kaemmer was a DNF. Read the full report at: http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/sims Click on "Reviews" and follow the link to the Papy Cup race report page. You'll find a number of spectacular screen shots of cars in flight over the hills of Germany. As always, click on the screen shots in the story to see the full size 800x600 shots. Alison

So you are all beta testers, or all warez-people :-)) Bart ps only joking :-)

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> Matt Sentell won Thursday's Papy Cup event at Nurburgring, with > Silverstone winner Rich Yasi second and Randy Cassidy third. Series > leader Dave Kaemmer was a DNF. > Read the full report at: > http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/sims > Click on "Reviews" and follow the link to the Papy Cup race report page. > You'll find a number of spectacular screen shots of cars in flight over > the hills of Germany. As always, click on the screen shots in the story > to see the full size 800x600 shots. > Alison

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> > Matt Sentell won Thursday's Papy Cup event at Nurburgring, with > > Silverstone winner Rich Yasi second and Randy Cassidy third. Series > > leader Dave Kaemmer was a DNF. > > Read the full report at: > > http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/sims

Thanks for the review! Only a couple of the Papy staff were under 9 mins, This track will be difficult for sure! Later, John

Hi Alison,another great report,thanks. But one thing has confused me.Many Beta testers that post messages on RAS stated that pit stops were not possible during a race .If you crash or have a minor break,you're out of the race.And to my surprise,i read on your report that more than one driver crashed(Betts and Rich)and were able to come back after the car was repaired. So what is the truth?which crashes and failures will not take the driver out of the race? I guess you're playing the final version ,right? Thanks Rafael

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> Matt Sentell won Thursday's Papy Cup event at Nurburgring, with > Silverstone winner Rich Yasi second and Randy Cassidy third. Series > leader Dave Kaemmer was a DNF. > Read the full report at: > http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/sims > Click on "Reviews" and follow the link to the Papy Cup race report page. > You'll find a number of spectacular screen shots of cars in flight over > the hills of Germany. As always, click on the screen shots in the story > to see the full size 800x600 shots. > Alison

Rafael Medeiros wrote I think that actually (I might be wrong) after Mike Lescault's departure they made a last-minute change and incorpored a pitstop fonction into GPL. AFAIK if you check out the monza.txt file you might already find some information about this... Im not sure... There is some repairs that are done when you shift-R in lower skilled GPL races, but in fact Im about sure now you can pit... yes you can.. Not sure if I have the possibility to tell this but there's many factors for "pitstopping". The team's ability to perform normal pit service can change for such things as : Consistency, Mistake, Engine rating, 4tire Pitstop time rating, Reliability, Repairs factor rating and finally the risk. Of course, the full version will be different, but I can't tell. - Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard! - Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. - Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking) - Sponsored by http://www.awpss.com/ on the NROS - "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--

At an altitude of 300+ feet above track level, Alison? Or has that been fixed?? :o) > You'll find a number of spectacular screen shots of cars in flight over > the hills of Germany. -- Regards, Bruce. ----------

Mike Laskey wrote in Ah yes I actually made a little error... I know about the whole Shift-R stuff... but I realised after my posting that all the "pitstop" information in GPL files was more for the AI than the player in easier GP modes. Oops sorry Btw, I would hope to see a patch for GPL that if you raced without any AI in multiplayer that you could do it with the Advanced Trainee and the trainee car.. - Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard! - Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. - Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking) - Sponsored by http://www.awpss.com/ on the NROS - "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--

>I think that actually (I might be wrong) after Mike Lescault's departure >they made a last-minute change and incorpored a pitstop fonction into GPL. Unless it was extremely last minute, pitstops for repairs are not implemented in GPL. The only time you'd visit the pit during a GPL race would be to serve a penalty of some description. As for repairs, it is possible to use Shift-R in the beginner or easier modes of play, but at Intermediate these options are reduced and at Pro or GP you may not use Shift-R at all during a race session (and nor can the AI cars of course <g>). Mike.

If I recall correctly, pit stops were extremely rare on the F1 circuit in the late 60's, weren't they? As in you pitted if your day was over anyway. Bob

Correct, Bob. Either that or your team manager wanted you to hand over your car to your team-mate....Fangio! > If I recall correctly, pit stops were extremely rare on the F1 circuit in the > late 60's, weren't they? As in you pitted if your day was over anyway. > Bob -- Regards, Bruce. ---------- The GP Legends Historic Motor Racing Club is located at:- http://www.netspeed.com.au/brucek/legends/