You know you've been playing too much GPL when....

You accidently cut someone off in traffic and instinctively reach for the keyboard to type sry(as I did driving home last night)

"Nudge From Hey Dad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > You accidently cut someone off in traffic and instinctively reach for > the keyboard to type sry(as I did driving home last night) Once I reached for the brake with my left foot while doing about 80 mph on the interstate. That made me a little nervous - don't want to get goofy footed in traffic! - David Cook

Thats not a problem if you're a left foot braker in the 1st place.......<G> -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash David Cook <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1Wi79.8017$[email hidden]... > "Nudge From Hey Dad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > You accidently cut someone off in traffic and instinctively reach for > > the keyboard to type sry(as I did driving home last night) > > Once I reached for the brake with my left foot while doing about 80 mph on the > interstate. That made me a little nervous - don't want to get goofy footed in > traffic! > > - David Cook > >

LOL! You know you been playing too much GPL when you evade an accident and your mother in the passenger seat says: "Must be all that computer racing you do" <g> Charlie "Nudge From Hey Dad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > You accidently cut someone off in traffic and instinctively reach for > the keyboard to type sry(as I did driving home last night)

You know you been playing too much GPL when you are in your real car, you evade an accident that wasn't your fault, the car gets bogged, you can't get the car out of the mud...........I know .....reach down for Shift-R ( Thinking SHIT, now I've gotta warm up the bloody tyres again ) :-) Darf

"Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3d5e0811$0$31147$[email hidden]... > > You know you been playing too much GPL when you are in your real car, you > evade an accident that wasn't your fault, the car gets bogged, you can'tget > the car out of the mud...........I know .....reach down for Shift-R ( > Thinking SHIT, now I've gotta warm up the bloody tyres again ) :-) I got a bit 'confused' like this a few years back & ended up upside down in a ditch. Shift-R doesn't work, and standing at the roadside for a couple of hours really brings home the reality of the situation. I hardly ever drive fast on the road now, I use gpl for that. I still wince & think "this is gonna HURT" when I crash in gpl. I only use shift-R when the engine blows now. Malc.

If you are on a curvy road, and don't need to change gears I find leftfoot braking makes the ride more smooth. I like it :-) /Carl "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:A%i79.16047$[email hidden]... > Thats not a problem if you're a left foot braker in the 1stplace.......<G>

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> -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > David Cook <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:1Wi79.8017$[email hidden]... > > "Nudge From Hey Dad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > > > You accidently cut someone off in traffic and instinctively reach for > > > the keyboard to type sry(as I did driving home last night) > > > > Once I reached for the brake with my left foot while doing about 80 mph

on the > > interstate. That made me a little nervous - don't want to get goofyfooted in

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In article <1Wi79.8017$[email hidden]>, "David Cook" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>"Nudge From Hey Dad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> You accidently cut someone off in traffic and instinctively reach for >> the keyboard to type sry(as I did driving home last night) > >Once I reached for the brake with my left foot while doing about 80 mph on >the >interstate. That made me a little nervous - don't want to get goofy footed >in >traffic!

After running several GPL races one day, I had to drive somewhere. I took off from the light, and went to grab 2nd gear. I have an automatic transmission...<g> Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank:+8.09 N2002 Rank:+22.329 Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

... you trail brake into a corner, trying to get the rear end out so you can pick up the throttle and power out.... at 20 mph in a fwd minivan!!!

i was like that way before gpl :) Haqsau <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ajmo1n$1cl4si$[email hidden]... > ... you trail brake into a corner, trying to get the rear end out so you > can pick up the throttle and power out.... at 20 mph in a fwd > minivan!!! > >

Hehe, well I was a reasonably calm driver before getting into all this sim stuff. I still don't deliberately drive fast, but the sim racing seems to have warped my perceptions of what correct speeds and distances are. I am constantly braking too late and coming into corners too fast now IRL. Not so fast that I am out of control, but fast enough that the tires chirp and I get an embarassing amount of lean going around the corner. And it really does look silly in a minivan. ;o) "David Powell" <davidpowell@(nospamman)clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > i was like that way before gpl :) > Haqsau <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:ajmo1n$1cl4si$[email hidden]... > > ... you trail brake into a corner, trying to get the rear end out soyou > > can pick up the throttle and power out.... at 20 mph in a fwd > > minivan!!! > > > > > >

> "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3d5e0811$0$31147$[email hidden]... > I hardly ever drive fast on the road now, I use gpl for that. I still wince > & think "this is gonna HURT" when I crash in gpl. I only use shift-R when > the engine blows now. Who remembers the scene in Days of Thunder where Cole Trickle enters the pits and is cutup by a car in front? He hits the breaks, the car slides towards the wall and he yells "this is gonna hurt!". Well, I can relate. A while ago I was driving much too fast in a rainstorm. I sped down a hill and at the bottom was a puddle the size of Asia! I slammed on the breaks, the car slid toward a wall and I yelled "this is gonna hurt!". The car was a right-off. �14,000 of damage! What made me laugh was that a few days before I had been racing GPL online, someone cut me up and I went through much the same experience. Only I was laughing after my car was trashed in GPL, cos it made such a funny thing to watch, but crying after my 'real' accident. Wish I had had SHIFT+R back then!

"adamchehata" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:3d5e0811$0$31147$[email hidden]... Darf didn't write this, I did. > > I hardly ever drive fast on the road now, I use gpl for that. I stillwince > > & think "this is gonna HURT" when I crash in gpl. I only use shift-Rwhen

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> > the engine blows now. > Well, I can relate. A while ago I was driving much too fast in a > rainstorm. I sped down a hill and at the bottom was a puddle the size > of Asia! I slammed on the breaks, the car slid toward a wall and I > yelled "this is gonna hurt!". The car was a right-off. �14,000 of > damage!

As I recall, the thought going through my mind during the skid was "oh no" when I felt the steering hit the bumpstop as I countersteered. You're right, stuff like that really brings home the difference. Malc.

you know GPL promotes safe driving it did for me, I am all toooo AWARE of the pitfalls of braking in mid corner, too much momentum into corner and failure to downshift for the corner not much lessons on the straights though "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:zdo79.663$yN2.85945@wards... > > I hardly ever drive fast on the road now, I use gplfor that. I still wince > & think "this is gonna HURT" when I crash in gpl. Ionly use shift-R when > the engine blows now. > > Malc. > >

> "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:zdo79.663$yN2.85945@wards..."John" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > > > I hardly ever drive fast on the road now, I use gpl > for that. I still wince > > & think "this is gonna HURT" when I crash in gpl. I > only use shift-R when > > the engine blows now. > you know > GPL promotes safe driving > it did for me, I am all toooo AWARE of the pitfalls > of braking in mid corner, too much momentum into corner > and failure to downshift for the corner > > not much lessons on the straights though

I wouldn't say it makes you safer on the road, but it'll show you how to drive fast well on a track ;-) Malc.

i say it teaches you things youll prolly wreck a few cars learning on the road.. id also say once youve learn those things in GPL your more likely to try them on the road, making you more dangerous :) at least for youngens.... Malc <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Zdm89.93$J47.17117@stones...

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> > > "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:zdo79.663$yN2.85945@wards... > "John" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > > > I hardly ever drive fast on the road now, I use gpl > > for that. I still wince > > > & think "this is gonna HURT" when I crash in gpl. I > > only use shift-R when > > > the engine blows now. > > > you know > > GPL promotes safe driving > > it did for me, I am all toooo AWARE of the pitfalls > > of braking in mid corner, too much momentum into corner > > and failure to downshift for the corner > > > > not much lessons on the straights though > > I wouldn't say it makes you safer on the road, but it'll show you how to > drive fast well on a track ;-) > > Malc. > >

... you tweak your corner exit to maximum acceleration grip .. on your way to work. on the (even more )positive side IMO: this continuous sliding around and catching back the car improves your ability to perform better under extrem real-time situations In case that you get carried away (again) and approach or enter a corner too fast, you act much cooler and with better control JensSchumi On 16 Aug 2002 18:58:32 -0700, [email hidden] (Nudge From Hey Dad) wrote: >You accidently cut someone off in traffic and instinctively reach for >the keyboard to type sry(as I did driving home last night) --------------------------------------------- LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: http://jensschumi.bravepages.com/ GPLRank: -14.82 Monsters of GPL: sub 95

I saved a nasty skid when the lights changed suddenly in the damp, the wife was amazed I saved it as we were bobbing on a bit, but I put it down to hours of practice cadence braking for the Parabolica (often trying not to get rear ended by that ***** Surtees - I've met him in real life, next time I'm going to have a word about his driving in GPL!) Dave Woods . > > on the (even more )positive side IMO: > > this continuous sliding around and catching back the car improves yourability > to perform better under extrem real-time situations > > In case that you get carried away (again) and approach or enter a cornertoo > fast, you act much cooler and with better control > > JensSchumi >