Re: Negative Handicap: Woohoo!!!

On Sun 30 Jul 2000 09:00:55pm, Ace wrote: >Trimmed the fat at Spa and just crept into the negative numbers. No >more driving tonight, I'm breaking out the champagne!!! Well done :-) I *love* Spa. IN fact, my Spa time (improved tonight to 3:17.94 - must upload to GPLRank...) is the main reason for my negative h/cap. -- David. (GPLRank handicap: -3.01) "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

Trimmed the fat at Spa and just crept into the negative numbers. No more driving tonight, I'm breaking out the champagne!!! -- -Ace- (GPLRank -0.34)

Awesome....man Im so far away from negative it hurts. Im going to try Monoco one more time tonight hard...I know I can knock off 5 seconds there....I know it. Now if I can only do it...maybe get below 160 Handicap. PAPA DOC

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> >>Trimmed the fat at Spa and just crept into the negative numbers. No >>more driving tonight, I'm breaking out the champagne!!! > >Well done :-) > >I *love* Spa. IN fact, my Spa time (improved tonight to 3:17.94 - must >upload to GPLRank...) is the main reason for my negative h/cap. > >-- >David. (GPLRank handicap: -3.01) >"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, >really." >(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

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On Mon 31 Jul 2000 12:45:52pm, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: <snip> >Just how do you break the 3:20 at Spa is beyond me.<snip> Mostly a very nicely balanced setup (based on Greger Huttu's, but tweaked a little). Email me if you want it - in fact, I think I'll set up a website and put it on that (with the replay of my PB lap), to save people's time. Watch this space :-) -- David. (GPLRank handicap: -3.90) "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

In article <[email hidden]>, David Buttery <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Sun 30 Jul 2000 09:00:55pm, Ace wrote: > >>Trimmed the fat at Spa and just crept into the negative numbers. No >>more driving tonight, I'm breaking out the champagne!!! > >Well done :-) > >I *love* Spa. IN fact, my Spa time (improved tonight to 3:17.94 - must >upload to GPLRank...) is the main reason for my negative h/cap. >

Just how do you break the 3:20 at Spa is beyond me. I've even tried cheating (rread: driving the lotus and the eagle ;-), but to no avail. Once I have a good first half of a lap (getting masta right, for instance) I'm so hesitant to drive on the limit I lose loads of time in the second half. hoover -- Uwe Schuerkamp, QuBiz ////////////// Phone: +49 5241 80 10 66 Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 161 I \\\\\\\\\\ uwe.schuerkamp at qubiz.com 33311 Guetersloh \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ http://www.schuerkamp.de/ PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

To quote Juha Kankkunen (badly) "Can I go faster? Yes Just use more accelerator, and less brake" At Spa, I can think of 3 place where you should dab the brakes, maybe 4 places in a race. Any more than this and your losing time. Tried the BRM here? -- -Ace- (GPLRank-0.34) Uwe Schuerkamp <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>, > David Buttery <[email hidden]> wrote: > >On Sun 30 Jul 2000 09:00:55pm, Ace wrote: > > > >>Trimmed the fat at Spa and just crept into the negative numbers. No > >>more driving tonight, I'm breaking out the champagne!!! > > > >Well done :-) > > > >I *love* Spa. IN fact, my Spa time (improved tonight to 3:17.94 - must > >upload to GPLRank...) is the main reason for my negative h/cap. > > > > Just how do you break the 3:20 at Spa is beyond me. I've even tried > cheating (rread: driving the lotus and the eagle ;-), but to no avail. > > Once I have a good first half of a lap (getting masta right, for > instance) I'm so hesitant to drive on the limit I lose loads of time > in the second half. > > hoover > > -- > Uwe Schuerkamp, QuBiz ////////////// Phone: +49 5241 80 10 66 > Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 161 I \\\\\\\\\\ uwe.schuerkamp at qubiz.com > 33311 Guetersloh \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ http://www.schuerkamp.de/ > PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

In article <8m7jnc$5e$[email hidden]>, "Ace" <[email hidden]> writes: >To quote Juha Kankkunen (badly) "Can I go faster? Yes Just use more >accelerator, and less brake" At Spa, I can think of 3 place where you should >dab the brakes, maybe 4 places in a race. Any more than this and your losing >time. Tried the BRM here? >-- Only 3?!? Lessee...Haut de la Cote, Malmedy, Masta, Stavelot, Cottage(what's its name?), Blanchimont, and La Source.. So, I'm braking at 7 places. I don't see how you could get through some of these with just a 'confidence lift'... I'm guessing your spots are La Source, Malmedy, la Cote? Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL hcp. +59.33 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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> In article <[email hidden]>, > David Buttery <[email hidden]> wrote: > >On Sun 30 Jul 2000 09:00:55pm, Ace wrote: > > > >>Trimmed the fat at Spa and just crept into the negative numbers. No > >>more driving tonight, I'm breaking out the champagne!!! > > > >Well done :-) > > > >I *love* Spa. IN fact, my Spa time (improved tonight to 3:17.94 - must > >upload to GPLRank...) is the main reason for my negative h/cap. > > > > Just how do you break the 3:20 at Spa is beyond me. I've even tried > cheating (rread: driving the lotus and the eagle ;-), but to no avail.

Spa is a riddle wrapped in an enigma! There's been times when I felt that I've pushed myself to the limit at every corner, only to come away with a 3:23-24. Then, during an online race, I'm driving along, seemingly further away from the limit, just trying to keep in touch with the others, and I set a 3:19:72. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere, but it's lost on me! :) Pants

Pants <[email hidden]> wrote: : "Uwe Schuerkamp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message :> Just how do you break the 3:20 at Spa is beyond me. I've even tried :> cheating (rread: driving the lotus and the eagle ;-), but to no avail. : Spa is a riddle wrapped in an enigma! There's been times when I felt that : I've pushed myself to the limit at every corner, only to come away with a : 3:23-24. Then, during an online race, I'm driving along, seemingly further : away from the limit, just trying to keep in touch with the others, and I set : a 3:19:72. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere, but it's lost on : me! :) Slow in fast out? Quite often in GPL I've set PB times by "droning around not pushing" - you concentrate on the line more then, you don't over accelerate out of the corners. Having said that, I'm not that fast in GPL. -- Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York UPDATED WWW: http://manor.york.ac.uk/

[email hidden] (Pants) wrote in <8m8gs1$2i9j$[email hidden]>: >Then, during an online race, I'm driving along, seemingly further >away from the limit, just trying to keep in touch with the others, and I set >a 3:19:72. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere, but it's lost on >me! :) The 3:19 was a warp ? -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C. GPLRank -5.09 Come see how you rank, at the GPLRank site http://gplrank.schuerkamp.de/

I brake at La source (hard) Eau rouge(quick dab) and Haute de la Cote (just enough to swing the tail round). Sometimes I'll brake for malmedy, but this is really no more than a dab to get the nose pointed in the right direction, and I tend do it in a race so I don't risk stuffing the car, or when I get my line wrong. -- -Ace- (GPLRank-0.34) EldredP <[email hidden]> wrote <snip> At Spa, I can think of 3 place where you should > >dab the brakes, maybe 4 places in a race. Any more than this and your losing > >time. Tried the BRM here? > >-- > > Only 3?!? Lessee...Haut de la Cote, Malmedy, Masta, Stavelot, Cottage(what's > its name?), Blanchimont, and La Source.. > So, I'm braking at 7 places. I don't see how you could get through some of > these with just a 'confidence lift'... > I'm guessing your spots are La Source, Malmedy, la Cote?

On Wed 02 Aug 2000 03:50:48am, EldredP wrote: <snip> > Lessee...Haut de la Cote, Malmedy, Masta, Stavelot, >Cottage(what's its name?), Blanchimont, and La Source..<snip> I use at least some brake in all those places - I can't imagine how to do Haut de la Cote without braking. -- David. (GPLRank handicap: -3.90) "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

In article <8m9smd$8vb$[email hidden]>, "Ace" <[email hidden]> writes: >I brake at La source (hard) Eau rouge(quick dab) and Haute de la Cote (just >enough to swing the tail round). Sometimes I'll brake for malmedy, but this >is really no more than a dab to get the nose pointed in the right direction, >and I tend do it in a race so I don't risk stuffing the car, or when I get >my line wrong. Yow...for me to not brake at the other places, I'd have to lift 200 yards earlier. How can you POSSIBLY not brake at Cottage or Blanchimont??? I'd love to see THAT replay... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL hcp. +52.52 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Ace <[email hidden]> wrote: : I brake at La source (hard) Eau rouge(quick dab) and Haute de la Cote (just : enough to swing the tail round). Sometimes I'll brake for malmedy, but this : is really no more than a dab to get the nose pointed in the right direction, : and I tend do it in a race so I don't risk stuffing the car, or when I get : my line wrong. You must spend a lot of time bouncing off the armco barrier at Les Combes. (Or is Haute de la Cote another name for this bit - the left hander after Eau Rouge). You have to brake pretty hard there. And also Blanchimont. I'm not sure where you mean by Haute de la Cote - but I don't see how you can get away with not braking at these two places in addition to la source and Eau Rouge -- Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York UPDATED WWW: http://manor.york.ac.uk/