GPL - F3 racing

Hello, I tried to race a F3 race yesterday, and I wanted to share my impressions. First off it was a novice race at Monza. I entered with a default setup Eagle, and got #2 starting position. The start was clean, and I actually managed to race clean on the outside in Curva Grande. Then came the 1st Lesmo and I spun, some other race spun too, and there were flying cars and lot of carnage. Then I had to start over and try to catch up on #1. I was finally right behind him when I tried a very optimistic late breaking into Parabolica, and screwed up again. After that race the server (thanks Mr Barlow) switched to Mosport. I don't know that track as good as Monza, but I went for it. Turn 2 is still a bastard even in F3, so I lost some time on the first half of the track. Anyway, I didn't mess up this time and had a really good fight with #2, #1 disappeared into the horizon so we were kind of concentration on the racing instead of winning. After he made a mistake at the Moss hairpin i was able to out accelerate him on the back straight. But then braked to early into turn 1 and was hit from behind, and the #4 car passed us. And he didn't settle with that. He beat me with 16 seconds in the two remaining laps. My conclutions: - Screwing up a turn is a universally bad thing no matter what class it is :) - The racing was more fun as I could concentrate more on catching up and to pass, instead of using all my skill on keeping the car on the track. - Some people are blindingly fast even in F3. I thought the racing was close, but that seemed to be only for us who had never raced F3 before (thanks Mr Zwart for the close racing). - It was still very fun, and I'm definately going to try it again tonight if a F3 Monza race show up on GSB. Oh, and Randy Cassidy did also show up beating the ***out of us at Mosport. Great to see that a game designer race with us mortals :) -- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

You should try F2 at Monaco which is also a blast. A bit faster than F3, but not as lethal as navigating the track in a GP car. Enjoy, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany (52.0N/8h30mE) Ever wondered what's wrong with the world? http://bnetwork.com/ PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Actually F2 is the best racing in GPL. The reason is the relation between power and grip. The F1 is over powered and needs a lot of continious practice to be able to steer with the throttle. The F3 is underpowered, which is easier than overpowered, but still a bit difficult to drive on the edge. The F2 is perfect and needs very little practice to be able to steer with the throttle. Personally I believe the F2 is the easiest car to drive. You can get so wrong in F2 and still pull it off. It needs a balanced setup though :o). /Chrille, now only race F2 and F3...

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> Hello, > I tried to race a F3 race yesterday, and I wanted to share my impressions. > First off it was a novice race at Monza. I entered with a default setup Eagle, > and got #2 starting position. The start was clean, and I actually managed to > race clean on the outside in Curva Grande. Then came the 1st Lesmo and I spun, > some other race spun too, and there were flying cars and lot of carnage. Then > I had to start over and try to catch up on #1. I was finally right behind him > when I tried a very optimistic late breaking into Parabolica, and screwed up > again. > After that race the server (thanks Mr Barlow) switched to Mosport. I don't know > that track as good as Monza, but I went for it. Turn 2 is still a bastard even > in F3, so I lost some time on the first half of the track. Anyway, I didn't > mess up this time and had a really good fight with #2, #1 disappeared into the > horizon so we were kind of concentration on the racing instead of winning. > After he made a mistake at the Moss hairpin i was able to out accelerate him > on the back straight. But then braked to early into turn 1 and was hit from > behind, and the #4 car passed us. And he didn't settle with that. He beat me > with 16 seconds in the two remaining laps. > My conclutions: > - Screwing up a turn is a universally bad thing no matter what class it is :) > - The racing was more fun as I could concentrate more on catching up and to > pass, instead of using all my skill on keeping the car on the track. > - Some people are blindingly fast even in F3. I thought the racing was close, > but that seemed to be only for us who had never raced F3 before (thanks Mr > Zwart for the close racing). > - It was still very fun, and I'm definately going to try it again tonight if a > F3 Monza race show up on GSB. > Oh, and Randy Cassidy did also show up beating the ***out of us at Mosport. > Great to see that a game designer race with us mortals :) > -- > Olav K. Malmin > remove spam when replying

-- [link lost in import: /~w-41236/] (Read all about the "Global online racing"-proposal under "For developers". Read it a couple of times, cause noone has understood it the first time they've read it yet :o)).