You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life

You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life 10) you shaved off 10min on your daily drive to work since the release of GPL 9) you installed the third new gearbox in your car, because you use the clutch only for the start 8) you drift through every corner 7) you are looking for the pitboard sign, when you drive into the garage 6) when driving your car your are not looking to the left or right, but pressing on the horn left and right on your steering-wheel 5) you try to outbrake other drivers before every turn 4) you installed sidepipes w/o any dampening to get better sound in your car 3) your boss wants you to drive him to the airport, you don't drive him to jfk, but to the Nuerburgring 2) someone asks you before the last formula one race of the season, who is going to win, Schumacher or H?kkinen, you just don't know what the hell he is talking about and just answer Jim Clark 1) you are looking for the Shift-R keys in your car after an accident Greetings from Koblenz Staabi Please excuse my grammar, I'm german-speeking

>You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life You hop in your real car after driving GPL and you think you've gotten a flat for sure because of the abnormally excessive body roll. I've stopped twice to check! Norm

>10) you shaved off 10min on your daily drive to work since the release of >GPL Oh, hell yeah. I have an automatic, but sometimes wonder "why it shifts so early." I try... Would be nice... I did that, like, the sixth day I had the game. That's a given, and the #1 on my list. car No, but I do turn off the radio and sometimes open the windows for that "rush." That would be hard, since I don't live in Germany. Ha-ha! I remember doing something like that regarding the Nurburgring race (when I still had the demo, and was thinking of the track that would be in the game - I had no idea, did I?). I don't do that (lack of accidents?), but sometimes I do look for the F2 key (whoa, I wanna see that again!). - John P. Wilson :|: - Computer Renaissance http://www.computerrenaissance.com/ http://www.austincr.com/ - Downshift http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/1123/index.html - Ten Cylinders, Six Gears, Four Wheels, Two Wings, and one Brave Heart.

>You know, you race to much GPL When there is a Lotus 49 dash burnt into your monitor.

Great post :-) One question though. Did you experience all this? // Johan

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> You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life > 10) you shaved off 10min on your daily drive to work since the release of > GPL > 9) you installed the third new gearbox in your car, because you use the > clutch only for the start > 8) you drift through every corner > 7) you are looking for the pitboard sign, when you drive into the garage > 6) when driving your car your are not looking to the left or right, but > pressing on the horn left and right on your steering-wheel > 5) you try to outbrake other drivers before every turn > 4) you installed sidepipes w/o any dampening to get better sound in your car > 3) your boss wants you to drive him to the airport, you don't drive him to > jfk, but to the Nuerburgring > 2) someone asks you before the last formula one race of the season, who is > going to win, Schumacher or H?kkinen, you just don't know what the hell he > is talking about and just answer Jim Clark > 1) you are looking for the Shift-R keys in your car after an accident > Greetings from Koblenz > Staabi > Please excuse my grammar, I'm german-speeking

Hi, well, not all of this... ;-) greetings, Staabi Johan Foederer schrieb in Nachricht

Whilst walking around the house you find yourself thinking things like "Dammit, I could have taken a better line on the entry to the kitchen", and so on..... Cheers! -- Graeme Nash You know what to do with "don't_spam_me"... http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk/ ICQ# 11257824 "Useless quote"

4 wheel drift in a Geo Metro is a sign of too much GPL too

etc.. I've done EXACLTY that with N99 stuff!!! While not at 6:00am (I don't get up that early for ANYthing!!); I DO hear that every night from the "Better Half." MAN, that's good!! Struck another chord there, didn't we?

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>Bruce D. >> You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life >> 10) you shaved off 10min on your daily drive to work since the release of >> GPL >> 9) you installed the third new gearbox in your car, because you use the >> clutch only for the start >> 8) you drift through every corner >> 7) you are looking for the pitboard sign, when you drive into the garage >> 6) when driving your car your are not looking to the left or right, but >> pressing on the horn left and right on your steering-wheel >> 5) you try to outbrake other drivers before every turn >> 4) you installed sidepipes w/o any dampening to get better sound in your

car >> 3) your boss wants you to drive him to the airport, you don't drive him to >> jfk, but to the Nuerburgring >> 2) someone asks you before the last formula one race of the season, who is >> going to win, Schumacher or H?kkinen, you just don't know what the hell he

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>> is talking about and just answer Jim Clark >> 1) you are looking for the Shift-R keys in your car after an accident >> Greetings from Koblenz >> Staabi >> Please excuse my grammar, I'm german-speeking

OUTSTANDING thread you guys!! Don Hancock "Gunner"

You think how cool it would be to drive to work in 'your' Ferrari. Some of my daily commuting roads would make great GPL tracks :) > You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life > Staabi > Please excuse my grammar, I'm german-speeking -- -------- Jason Monds (Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)

> You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life ...when you wish the family car was equipped with a detail bias slider to improve/hide its lines. ...when you browse through a manual on the recommended settings for bump ***s for a Toyota Tercel. ...when, after making a great pass on another commuter, you want to view the replay. ...when you ask the local gas station attendant for genuine Kendal motor oil. Thanks for the great post Michael! =) Cheers! Marc -- Marc J. Nelson SimRacing Online - [link lost in import] * Switch confused.net with concentric.net to reply...Confused-yet? *

You know you race too much GPL when..... Sheesh, I haven't got time to write this, I've gotta try and get under 1:30 a Monza!!!! 8-) *Peter* #:-)

You sit in your real car at a traffic light, and are impressed that your hands aren't shaking on the wheel. You sit at the light, holding up traffic, because you're waiting for the guy with the green flag... You find yourself 'trail-braking' into your driveway. Eldred

ROFL! I thought that all of the postings here were brilliant, but this message was the best! :-) Adam

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>You know you race too much GPL when..... >Sheesh, I haven't got time to write this, I've gotta try and get >under 1:30 a Monza!!!! >8-) >*Peter* #:-)

When you find yourself left foot braking in real life. I've done this more then a few times :) "ZZ" -- Busch Carpentry "Plans?" ---------------- Busch Motorsports "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward"

When at lights you pop the clutch in an effort to beat the guy next to you off the line.

You replace the steering wheel and pedals in your Accord with 'aftermarket' parts -- from ThrustMaster. -- Philip M. D'Amato "You can observe a lot just by watchin'" --The Inimitable Yogi Berra >You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life >10) you shaved off 10min on your daily drive to work since the release of >GPL >9) you installed the third new gearbox in your car, because you use the >clutch only for the start >8) you drift through every corner >7) you are looking for the pitboard sign, when you drive into the garage >6) when driving your car your are not looking to the left or right, but >pressing on the horn left and right on your steering-wheel >5) you try to outbrake other drivers before every turn >4) you installed sidepipes w/o any dampening to get better sound in your car >3) your boss wants you to drive him to the airport, you don't drive him to >jfk, but to the Nuerburgring >2) someone asks you before the last formula one race of the season, who is >going to win, Schumacher or H?kkinen, you just don't know what the hell he >is talking about and just answer Jim Clark >1) you are looking for the Shift-R keys in your car after an accident >Greetings from Koblenz >Staabi >Please excuse my grammar, I'm german-speeking

> When at lights you pop the clutch in an effort to beat the guy next to you off > the line. What's that got to do with GPL? I thought that was just normal behaviour for any adolescent male with car keys! :)

says... Try Autocrossing... You left foot brake all the time. :-)

You raise your right arm as you pull into your driveway, smashing your knuckles on the roof of the car. You rev your engine to about 6000 r.p.m. at stoplights so you can beat that Honda Accord off the line (or is that a Murasama Accord?). You seriously consider going over the double yellow to get the correct line through the downhill-uphill S-turn near your house (that looks tantalizingly like Eau Rouge). --- I know I've been playing GPL too much because the other night I had a dream about Jim Clark coming back from the dead to race Graham Hill in what looked like a combination of my old neighborhood in Torrance, California (near the Riviera Village) and Monaco. They weren't racing Lotus 49s. They were racing those little Peugeot's (I think) that look like toy cars! After the race, I had a nice conversation with him while sitting on a park bench. A very nice chap. Dave Ewing

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> You raise your right arm as you pull into your driveway, smashing your > knuckles on the roof of the car. > You rev your engine to about 6000 r.p.m. at stoplights so you can beat > that Honda Accord off the line (or is that a Murasama Accord?). > You seriously consider going over the double yellow to get the correct > line through the downhill-uphill S-turn near your house (that looks > tantalizingly like Eau Rouge). > --- > I know I've been playing GPL too much because the other night I had a > dream about Jim Clark coming back from the dead to race Graham Hill in > what looked like a combination of my old neighborhood in Torrance, > California (near the Riviera Village) and Monaco. They weren't racing > Lotus 49s. They were racing those little Peugeot's (I think) that look > like toy cars! After the race, I had a nice conversation with him while > sitting on a park bench. A very nice chap. > Dave Ewing

Paul The Tucson Coyote Here, You definitely know you have been racing way too much GPL when you watch the replay of your Anglo American Gurney Eagle go Sliding along the top of the rail within dare I say scant inches of the crowd at the Ring Thinking you've just pulled off a difficult skateboard manuver without even trying.... When you go out in roughly the same area, and do a laterall tumble 10 times out in the cow pasture, and land upright, and you then watch the replay over and over again! (Look ma, no wheels!) When you wipe out in the same section of the Ring (The Bergwick section) as Lauda did... When you are trying to do that crazy stunt that will launch you into the bay at Monaco! (A la Alberto Ascari 1956).... When you go airborne near Abbey at Silverstone and still land upright! Need I say More??? Paul 'The Tucson Coyote' Bender.... A new found GPL ***! Mr. Gumby: I would like to see John the Baptist doing an imitation of race car driver Graham Hill! (With regards to Monty Python!)

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:07:53 +0100, "Michael Staab" >You know, you race to much GPL when in your real life you turn a corner and get on the gas, breaking the rear wheels loose. Rather than back off as you always have to bring the rear end back in, you keep the throttle planted and steer the car back in; no sweat, just like you've done a thousand times in that '67 Ferrari ;) Your wife is looking at you funny....

The road i live off of is a 3.2 mile loop where u would be hitting speeds like at Spa. Theres even a 90 degree turn that I (not others too much GPL in my system) take at 35 MPH.