Looking for a league...

I'm hoping to find an online GPL league that races the Novice Trainers. If anyone knows of such a league, I'd be grateful to hear about it. I've been racing in the Club Sport (Novice Trainers) division of the V.I.R.C. league for several months, but the future of that league is currently in doubt. I'm not terribly interested in racing the GP cars online, I feel that the lower powered trainers make for closer more competitive races. Thanks in advance, Trips D. Bell on VROC

If you find one please let me know Trips. I haven't tried the trainers as I used the AI Tweaker to slow the AI and used the GP cars (at a slower pace) to train from day one. I'm not extremely competitive online ( 3:30 at Spa, 1:08 at the Glen, etc.) so maybe this would be a fun place to race. I can host around 10 players (Cable modem) and we *could* set up races via ICQ if all have it. I also use Battle Comms, currently in free beta ( www.shadowfactor.com ) for voice communication. I do have a second P450 on my network at home that could act as a dedicated server (cable, separate IP) if thats possible to do in GPL. G. Patricks

I'm actually working on just such a project :-) The web site is a skeleton at the moment and dates are yet to be announced but feel free to have a look. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/mark.seery/ A bunch of buddies are doing test races at the moment. Mail me if you fancy joining in. Mark

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>I'm hoping to find an online GPL league that races the Novice Trainers. >If anyone knows of such a league, I'd be grateful to hear about it. >I've been racing in the Club Sport (Novice Trainers) division of the >V.I.R.C. league for several months, but the future of that league is >currently in doubt. >I'm not terribly interested in racing the GP cars online, I feel that >the lower powered trainers make for closer more competitive races. >Thanks in advance, >Trips >D. Bell on VROC

I can tell you now that racing the basic trainers is a scream. Of course, the speeds are slower and testing is a bit boring as a result but online....... I went into Eau Rouge at Spa and all the way up the hill side by side with another driver in one race. Neither one of us was giving or taking an inch. This would be impossible in F1 cars. The ability to run off the line at such places will ensure epic races in due course :-) Mark

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>If you find one please let me know Trips. I haven't tried the trainers >as I used the AI Tweaker to slow the AI and used the GP cars (at a >slower pace) to train from day one. I'm not extremely competitive >online ( 3:30 at Spa, 1:08 at the Glen, etc.) so maybe this would be a >fun place to race. I can host around 10 players (Cable modem) and we >*could* set up races via ICQ if all have it. I also use Battle Comms, >currently in free beta ( www.shadowfactor.com ) for voice >communication. I do have a second P450 on my network at home that >could act as a dedicated server (cable, separate IP) if thats possible >to do in GPL. >>:I'm hoping to find an online GPL league that races the Novice Trainers. >>:If anyone knows of such a league, I'd be grateful to hear about it. >>: >>:I've been racing in the Club Sport (Novice Trainers) division of the >>:V.I.R.C. league for several months, but the future of that league is >>:currently in doubt. >>: >>:I'm not terribly interested in racing the GP cars online, I feel that >>:the lower powered trainers make for closer more competitive races. >>: >>:Thanks in advance, >>: >>:Trips >>:D. Bell on VROC >G. Patricks

Hi Mark, glad to see you finally getting into this style of racing. I thought you may have been interested the other day when you joined my practice session for F3's at Monza.. <G> We, in the GMSS have run the F3 cars ever since GPL was released and you are dead right about the closensess of competition in this catagory of racing.. Our typical grid spacings are usually no more than 2 seconds from pole to last position on the grids, sometimes a lot closer. The time our members have spent in setup, fine tuning for that extra 100th of a second would have to be seen to be believed. I myself recently spent about 3 hours testing at Monza, just to get that 1 extra mph out of my F3, without losing the grip to speed ratio. Damm, this is great fun.. Welcome aboard. :) It's good to see a bit of interest in the F3/F2 cars, as the racing is far superior to the crash and bash adventures of the F1's.. I wish you luck with your new league you are forming. If you feel like testing your mettle in these monsters, drop me a line sometime and we will take these killers to the tracks... See you in a F3 somewhere .. :) Cheers from Downunder, Ron

I can testify that Ron DID find the extra MPH, but I got 2nd <G> Ron is right on the F3 and F2 cars provide MUCH better racing for 95% of us mere mortals with real world internet connections than does F1 >Hi Mark, glad to see you finally getting into this style of racing. >I thought you may have been interested the other day when you joined my >practice session for F3's at Monza.. <G> >We, in the GMSS have run the F3 cars ever since GPL was released and >you are dead right about the closensess of competition in this catagory >of racing..