ATTN: TIM McARTHUR

A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you doing so! Great Racing was had by all! Thanks again, DoktorB http://webhome.idirect.com/~drbryan/gpl GPL page, GPL chat room: "The Grandstand"

I'll second that, after 7 hours i was able to get through the first turn and almost won a race at WG til a lap car got me. Great fun!!!!!!!!! Mike Grandy Powered By ECCI driving controls http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/extreme/ A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you doing so! Great Racing was had by all! Thanks again, DoktorB http://webhome.idirect.com/~drbryan/gpl GPL page, GPL chat room: "The Grandstand"

Same here. Thank you very much sir. Brian blecor on TEN

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>A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection >available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and >I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you >doing so! >Great Racing was had by all! >Thanks again, >DoktorB >http://webhome.idirect.com/~drbryan/gpl >GPL page, GPL chat room: "The Grandstand"

Wow, just had an excellent jaunt at Monza on Tim Arthur's cable modem "network"<g>. Top four finished within 5 seconds of each other in a masterfully clean and fast race up front. I ran mostly 130's with a few 129's and still could not pull these guys in. Knowing how hard it is to drive these cars and seeing a group of almost 18 guys do it together online is mind boggling. Getting within inches in Nascar 2 is one thing, getting within inches in GPL is an entirely different animal. Just a matter of time before league pop up, I hope. Again thanks to Tim and kudos to the good drivers in the race. P.S. Randy Cassidy from Papyrus was spotted at Monza also...how many producers of other games have you had the pleasure of competing against?? Papyrus continues to be a class act. Rhawn Black Virtual Velocity Racing Powered by ECCI http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/extreme The CDS 4000 wheel and pedal system was designed for stock car racing and it delivers. "Race for the Sake of the Race" A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you doing so! Great Racing was had by all! Thanks again, DoktorB http://webhome.idirect.com/~drbryan/gpl GPL page, GPL chat room: "The Grandstand"

ER.... DITTO Pete Tabram >A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection >available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and

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>I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you >doing so! >Great Racing was had by all! >Thanks again, >DoktorB >http://webhome.idirect.com/~drbryan/gpl >GPL page, GPL chat room: "The Grandstand"

A big thank you from me as well and my apologies to Randy Cassidy for dumping you going into the Parabolica at Monza. My bad. ;) The racing was great and the warping wasn't too bad on my crappy 33.6 connection. I actually had some good wheel to wheel racing action with a couple guys. Kyle Same here. Thank you very much sir. Brian blecor on TEN >A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection >available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and >I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you >doing so! >Great Racing was had by all!

Your welcome everybody. I have thought about doing this for weeks, but didnt think anyone would be interested. I will try to have the server up more days as well. If I do, I will post the days and times on rec.autos.sim C ya next lap! >A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection >available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and

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>I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you >doing so! >Great Racing was had by all! >Thanks again, >DoktorB >http://webhome.idirect.com/~drbryan/gpl >GPL page, GPL chat room: "The Grandstand"

Yes, very good race guys, and you too Rhawn, I was the guy in the Eagle ahead of you that came in third place and we had a nice little battle going while catching the two leaders, good clean racing with no contact amazing! Thanks to Tim McArthur for having the server up and to the drivers who were taking part and were driving cleanly. Just a reminder to people to take it easy on the starts and try not to cause a huge pileup, much better not to push until the tires warm up than to take out the whole field at the first turn. Great racing. --John (Joao) Silva

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>Wow, just had an excellent jaunt at Monza on Tim Arthur's cable modem = >"network"<g>. Top four finished within 5 seconds of each other in a = >masterfully clean and fast race up front. I ran mostly 130's with a few = >129's and still could not pull these guys in. >Knowing how hard it is to drive these cars and seeing a group of almost = >18 guys do it together online is mind boggling. Getting within inches = >in Nascar 2 is one thing, getting within inches in GPL is an entirely = >different animal. Just a matter of time before league pop up, I hope. >Again thanks to Tim and kudos to the good drivers in the race. >P.S. Randy Cassidy from Papyrus was spotted at Monza also...how many = >producers of other games have you had the pleasure of competing = >against?? Papyrus continues to be a class act. >Rhawn Black >Virtual Velocity Racing >Powered by ECCI http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/extreme >The CDS 4000 wheel and pedal system was designed for stock car racing = >and it delivers.

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> A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection > available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and > I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you > doing so! > Great Racing was had by all! > Thanks again,

I`ll second that, thx Tim Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy UncleGoy on TEN "Team Mirage" - www.teammirage.com

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> > A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection > > available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by > many, and > > I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really > appreciated you > > doing so! > > Great Racing was had by all! > > Thanks again, > I`ll second that, thx Tim > Beers and cheers > (uncle) Goy > UncleGoy on TEN > "Team Mirage" - www.teammirage.com

Raising my coffecup in support to Tim - thanks! Matthew K.

The crash at the start of the Mexican GP was scary but, luckily, nobody was hurt. THANKS, TIM.

I'll second that, thanks again Tim. I had a great time in the Mexico GP. Unfortunately though, I got booted 2 minutes from the end of practice at Monza and I couldn't get reconnected :( -- Sean Black

Yes, big pats on the back all round! Too bad my ISP is a little iffy and I keep getting dropped. New ISP for me next month! :)

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> A >>>BIG<<< Thank-you to you for making your cable-modem connection > available and for putting up the GPL Server today!! It was used by many, and > I think I speak for all when I say "Thank-You".. we really appreciated you > doing so! > Great Racing was had by all! > Thanks again, > DoktorB > http://webhome.idirect.com/~drbryan/gpl > GPL page, GPL chat room: "The Grandstand"

-- Byron Forbes Captain of Team Lightning Bolt http://members.tripod.com/~HOSHUMUNGUS and http://www.frontiernet.net/~godsoe/bolt/home.htm

> Yes, big pats on the back all round! Too bad my ISP is a little iffy and I keep getting > dropped. New ISP for me next month! :) You mean that you actually connect from Aussie to his "server" in the US ? If so, WOW, is there much warping on your end and what is your average ping to him ???? Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy UncleGoy on TEN "Team Mirage" - www.teammirage.com

> You mean that you actually connect from Aussie to his "server" in the US > ? > If so, WOW, is there much warping on your end and what is your average > ping to him ???? Last night the Aussies seemed to be getting around 450ms latency, the warping is not that bad for them. i was getting from 550-800ms depending on how loaded the net was. i watched a race, rather that driving in it, and after a while i noticed that some cars had less warping than others, then after the race i asked the drivers what their latencies were and it turns out that the cars withmore warping had more latency. 200ms latency was giving a very smooth car to watch while 400ms was making a fairly jittery warping one, so i would hate to see what my car looks like to everyone else when i'm at 800ms latency :) I just try to give everyone as much room as i can so i don't cause a problem.

Not only aussie's couple of kiwi's on last night. average ping 600 ..not to bad I thought. some good racing at Silverstone was had by all.. Thanks again

> Not only aussie's couple of kiwi's on last night. That is way cool, I was on myself for a couple of hours, but it was mostly US and Euros on at that time I belive So at 600 ms, you get much warping ? Warping was present when I was on, but not too bad, I`ve got about 300ms to him so I`m happy :-) Hail Tim :-) Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy

Yeah Goy, not a REAL good conection but encouraging. I think when the Internet finds abundant bandwidth/efficiency and we all pretty much have cable modems that we'll all be racing together. Dunno about Europe to Aus though.

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> > Yes, big pats on the back all round! Too bad my ISP is a little iffy and I keep getting > > dropped. New ISP for me next month! :) > You mean that you actually connect from Aussie to his "server" in the US > ? > If so, WOW, is there much warping on your end and what is your average > ping to him ???? > Beers and cheers > (uncle) Goy > UncleGoy on TEN > "Team Mirage" - www.teammirage.com

-- Byron Forbes Captain of Team Lightning Bolt http://members.tripod.com/~HOSHUMUNGUS and http://www.frontiernet.net/~godsoe/bolt/home.htm

> Yeah Goy, not a REAL good conection but encouraging. I think when the Internet finds > abundant bandwidth/efficiency and we all pretty much have cable modems that we'll all be > racing together. Dunno about Europe to Aus though. Well, as long as you guys get a chance to join in the fun, right ? As for US to Europe, if you can I can connect to Tim`s server in the US without any of us warping badly, I`ll settle for that, but racing you and Bruce directly would be fun too :-) Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy

i connected to that server from perth on a 28.8 the warp was pretty bad but it didnt matter hehe woulda been ok but for the HUNDREDS of ppl getting on and off it.. we need LOTSA servers >> Yeah Goy, not a REAL good conection but encouraging. I think when the Internet finds >> abundant bandwidth/efficiency and we all pretty much have cable modems that we'll