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HAS ANYBODY STARTED A RACE WITH SAY 17 AI drivers and find them bloody slow at start of the race!

6 posts by 4 people · 18 Jan 1999 - 19 Jan 1999

Pat Megroi 18 Jan 1999#446031
Starting a race at kyalami, my start is not as good as the ai, and i catch and nearly always ramm them up the backside (no pun intended) before the first right hander. I try and weave my way through but there is always someone that moves over and you tangle. Similar experiences? -- all opinions expressed while drunk, stoned and flying through clouds. I'm not paranoid. That's just a rumour started by people out to get me.
Michael 18 Jan 1999#446032
Yes: At Spa even if I'm at the back of the field with 19 AI, I can take the lead by driving up the right hand side and outbraking the entire field into Eau Rouge. They don't seem to consider using the right hand side of the track where there's loads of room. I don't like to criticise too much though. Generally the AI is excellent. - Michael
DJacob 18 Jan 1999#446033
I think that after you get a fast qualifying lap that the next time you race the AI cars will be quicker. Atleast it seems that way to me, or I am getting slower the more that I practice. Sometime I think the AI cars are out to get me. The first lap especially. -Don
rob 18 Jan 1999#446034
Sure, going into that first corner at kyalami, drivers of course slow down because you're ramming 19 cars through a fairly tight, slow corner. You can't expect to drive full speed through what amounts to a small traffic jam. If you look at a replay of your first corner crashes against the ai you'll almost always find that you're the one swerving around and making a mess. You must either qualify well or wait for opportunities to overtake the other cars during the race. rob.
Quoted text (12 lines)>Starting a race at kyalami, my start is not as good as the ai, and i catch >and nearly always ramm them up the backside (no pun intended) before the >first right hander. I try and weave my way through but there is always >someone that moves over and you tangle. >Similar experiences? >-- >all opinions expressed while drunk, stoned and flying through clouds. >I'm not paranoid. That's just a rumour started by people out to get me.
Michael 18 Jan 1999#446035
I think its the "funnel" effect of Eau Rouge - I certainly can't outbrake all the cars at say, Rouen! - Michael
Pat Megroi 19 Jan 1999#446225
I never qualify, I always start myself at the back of the grid to make it harder on myself. As like the previous post about SPA, the right hand of the track is relitively bare. The AI usually rams me from the left side as he tries to get that late advantage. -- all opinions expressed while drunk, stoned and flying through clouds. I'm not paranoid. That's just a rumour started by people out to get me. >Sure, going into that first corner at kyalami, drivers of course slow down >because you're ramming 19 cars through a fairly tight, slow corner. >You can't expect to drive full speed through what amounts to a small traffic >jam. >If you look at a replay of your first corner crashes against the ai you'll >almost >always find that you're the one swerving around and making a mess. You >must either qualify well or wait for opportunities to overtake the other >cars during the race.

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