Saw GP3 running

At Waterloo station in London last night a stand was set up with a 'win a classic car' competition in conjunction with spirit of speed...but also on this stand was the ***pit of a formula 1 car complete with wheel and a 19" monitor on top running yup you guessed it GP3!!, it was a 2 lap race round the streets of Monaco but big dissapointment all the help options were turned on......but wow it looked good. Talking to they guy running the stand, he runs these F1 simulators round the country and was off today to take 2 of them running GP3 to the Arrows team for them, I guess, to playtest!! I asked him what the physics were like, and he claimed it was ***y difficult with all the helps turned off. He said that no demo would be released before the actual release of the game sometime in early June, and he wasnt with parting a copy of the game he had running on the simulator :( I seem to remember someone asking about mirrors etc....well the***pit looked nice...just a nice f1 wheel in front of you...no arms/hands.....very nice mirrors...the game had to be running in some kind of 3d hardware mode because it was flying...really fast...the graphics looked really nice..... I was looking forward to this game anyway, but now ive seen it all I can say is roll on June. :)

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> At Waterloo station in London last night a stand was set up with a > 'win a > classic car' > competition in conjunction with spirit of speed...but also on this > stand was > the >***pit of a formula 1 car complete with wheel and a 19" monitor on > top > running > yup you guessed it GP3!!, it was a 2 lap race round the streets of > Monaco > but > big dissapointment all the help options were turned on......but wow it > looked > good. > Talking to they guy running the stand, he runs these F1 simulators > round the > country and was off today to take 2 of them running GP3 to the Arrows > team > for them, I guess, to playtest!! > I asked him what the physics were like, and he claimed it was ***y > difficult > with all the helps turned off. He said that no demo would be released > before > the actual release of the game sometime in early June, and he wasnt > with parting a copy of the game he had running on the simulator :( > I seem to remember someone asking about mirrors etc....well the >***pit > looked nice...just a nice f1 wheel in front of you...no > arms/hands.....very > nice > mirrors...the game had to be running in some kind of 3d hardware mode > because it was flying...really fast...the graphics looked really > nice..... > I was looking forward to this game anyway, but now ive seen it all > I can say is roll on June. :)

The Company running the simulator were probably Interactive Racing (Now called BallRacing Developments I think?) They run a lot of these simulators at various car shows, exhibitions, and promotions, etc. They have a Simulator loosely based on a Lotus 49 I believe? they also have F1 type***pits, and speedboats as well! You can hire (and even buy) these simulators from them too..... Their site is at: [link lost in import] 8-) *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html [address restored]

Good to hear, you should have aksed him what system he was running the game on. Hopefully not a PIII 700 or Athlon 700 with a GeForce DDR 32MB system. Then it probably would fly. I'd hope he was running a Celeron 533 or a PIII 600 and a TNT2 or something similar. Ex On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:52:29 -0000, "Mark Rawlinson" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>At Waterloo station in London last night a stand was set up with a 'win a >classic car' >competition in conjunction with spirit of speed...but also on this stand was >the >cockpit of a formula 1 car complete with wheel and a 19" monitor on top >running >yup you guessed it GP3!!, it was a 2 lap race round the streets of Monaco >but >big dissapointment all the help options were turned on......but wow it >looked >good. > >Talking to they guy running the stand, he runs these F1 simulators round the >country and was off today to take 2 of them running GP3 to the Arrows team >for them, I guess, to playtest!! > >I asked him what the physics were like, and he claimed it was bloody >difficult >with all the helps turned off. He said that no demo would be released before >the actual release of the game sometime in early June, and he wasnt >with parting a copy of the game he had running on the simulator :( > >I seem to remember someone asking about mirrors etc....well the cockpit >looked nice...just a nice f1 wheel in front of you...no arms/hands.....very >nice >mirrors...the game had to be running in some kind of 3d hardware mode >because it was flying...really fast...the graphics looked really nice..... > >I was looking forward to this game anyway, but now ive seen it all >I can say is roll on June. :) > >

There's a GP Legends simulator set up at the Donnington Grand Prix museum in England, with a Lotus 49 cockpit and huge screen. They also have a couple of nice '67 cars on display, Brabham and BRM.

P200 with Voodoo 1? ;-) Jens On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 16:11:16 -0500, Extractor <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Good to hear, you should have aksed him what system he was running the >game on. Hopefully not a PIII 700 or Athlon 700 with a GeForce DDR >32MB system. Then it probably would fly. I'd hope he was running a >Celeron 533 or a PIII 600 and a TNT2 or something similar. > >Ex >

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