On Tue 11 Jul 2000 04:40:45pm, Gault wrote:
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>Some of my other times are pretty decent but my
>abysmal Ring times are dragging me WAY down the list. :-|
Have you tried "Ringtrainer"? It's a useful util that lets you practise
the Ring by starting on different sections of the track. The prog is in
German, but it's all fairly obvious. Get it here:
http://www.joachimblum.de/ringtrainer.htm
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David. (GPLRank handicap: +19.68)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)
I decided to join. Don't know if I should have...
I seem to be 746th (in "Top rankings") in F1 and 746th in F3.
(Or 753rd and 789th, if I look "Your ranking")
My handicaps are 277.27 (F1) and 530.44 (F3).
There seems to be room for developement... ;-)
Arto
Most of your times aren't too bad. I found that the Nurburgring time
makes an enormous difference though. I had a handicap of 150+ for a
while until I started to learn the ring. My pb there dropped from 10.32
to 9.00.56 on 1 week. Hence my rank is now +55.16. Much more respectable :)
Kev
Arto Wikla wrote:
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> > I decided to join. Don't know if I should have... > > I seem to be 746th (in "Top rankings") in F1 and 746th in F3. > (Or 753rd and 789th, if I look "Your ranking") > > My handicaps are 277.27 (F1) and 530.44 (F3). > There seems to be room for developement... ;-) > > Arto
Arto Wikla <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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No sweat.
If we cannot beat them in speed, we can beat them in ... errr... hmmm.....
;-)
No really. Your times are just about the same as mine when I first joined
the Rank.
But don't tell me,that you too use only keyboard to drive those times!
btw.
Why is it so difficult to get one lousy ISDN card when you would like to use
it just for fun and not for work...
"I feel the need... the need for ... online racing!"
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Jyrki Laine, GPLRank +22.95
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> > I decided to join. Don't know if I should have... > > I seem to be 746th (in "Top rankings") in F1 and 746th in F3. > (Or 753rd and 789th, if I look "Your ranking") > > My handicaps are 277.27 (F1) and 530.44 (F3). > There seems to be room for developement... ;-)
Kev <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Most of your times aren't too bad. I found that the Nurburgring time
> makes an enormous difference though. I had a handicap of 150+ for a
> while until I started to learn the ring. My pb there dropped from 10.32
> to 9.00.56 on 1 week. Hence my rank is now +55.16. Much more respectable:)
Yep, the heavy weighting of the Ring can really do wonders/damage to your
ranking. Some of my other times are pretty decent but my abysmal Ring times
are dragging me WAY down the list. :-|
Hey Arto,
I had a look at your times and as the former title holder of slowest
driver on GPLRank, you're looking pretty good (I wish I could do Monaco
that fast...), but the 'Ring time is dragging you down the list. I'll
give you advice I was given...abandon all other tracks for a while and
drive the 'Ring until you've taken at least a minute (or two!) off your
time there. That should send you soaring up the list.
You should be able to make some good progress for the next little while
as all the old hands drive Dave's new Imola track and their handicaps
stop falling for a while...8^)...BTW, thanks,
Dave, big time!
J. P. Hovercraft
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Arto Wikla wrote:
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> I decided to join. Don't know if I should have... > > I seem to be 746th (in "Top rankings") in F1 and 746th in F3. > (Or 753rd and 789th, if I look "Your ranking") > > My handicaps are 277.27 (F1) and 530.44 (F3). > There seems to be room for developement... ;-) > > ArtoI do believe I have that title now....Yeehaa....I think...
Dave
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> Hey Arto, > > I had a look at your times and as the former title holder of slowest > driver on GPLRank, you're looking pretty good (I wish I could do Monaco > that fast...), but the 'Ring time is dragging you down the list. I'll > give you advice I was given...abandon all other tracks for a while and > drive the 'Ring until you've taken at least a minute (or two!) off your > time there. That should send you soaring up the list. > > You should be able to make some good progress for the next little while > as all the old hands drive Dave's new Imola track and their handicaps > stop falling for a while...8^)...BTW, thanks, > Dave, big time! > > J. P. Hovercraft > > --------------- > > Arto Wikla wrote: > > > I decided to join. Don't know if I should have... > > > > I seem to be 746th (in "Top rankings") in F1 and 746th in F3. > > (Or 753rd and 789th, if I look "Your ranking") > > > > My handicaps are 277.27 (F1) and 530.44 (F3). > > There seems to be room for developement... ;-) > > > > Arto >Support <[email hidden]> consolated me:
>I had a look at your times and as the former title holder of slowest
>driver on GPLRank, you're looking pretty good (I wish I could do Monaco
>that fast...),
Thanks!
>but the 'Ring time is dragging you down the list. I'll
>give you advice I was given...abandon all other tracks for a while and
>drive the 'Ring until you've taken at least a minute (or two!) off your
>time there. That should send you soaring up the list.
Well, that seems to be a very good advice! I made only 3 laps with
Ferrari (Alison's setup), and I could shave my former 11:09.74 to
11:01.86! And in that lap I only twice went out of the track... :)
On the other hand, I was very careful not to drive too fast, when I
did not know, what there will be after the next corner... There seems
to be some room for making it still better... ;-)
Nearly 8 seconds is - I guess - quite much in my ranking, too... And
by only 3 more laps...
I'll still try some more laps before sending my new player.ini, though...
And there are also a couple of tracks I never really fell in love:
With a proper attitude I might get a few seconds from Rouen and Mexico, too?
This GPLRank seems to be quite an addictive piece of software! ;-/
>You should be able to make some good progress for the next little while
>as all the old hands drive Dave's new Imola track and their handicaps
>stop falling for a while...8^)...BTW, thanks,
The only problem to me seems to be that I would love to drive this great
version of Imola also by myself...
I already thanked Dave in public, but if he happens to read my modest
mail: Again, big thanks to you Dave, fantastic work!
(And by the way, did you ever hear or read that they had a nice track
here in the very center of Helsinki from 1937 to 1963! In the 50's and
in the beginning of 60's they drove F3's, sports cars and also "Formula
Junior". There were also many Englishmen racing there:
-52: D.W. Powell-Richards
-53: R. Nuckey
-54: R. Nuckey, Eric Brandon
-55: Eric Brandon
-56: Eric Brandon, Arthur Owen, Lord Louth
-57: David Latchford, Arthur Owen, Michael W. Head
-58: David R. Piper, Ivor Bueb
-59: David R. Piper, Graham Whitehead
-60: Graham Whitehead, Jimmy Blumer, Arthur Owen, John Whitmore
-61: Douglas Graham, David Hitches, Ronald Hodgson, Ian
Harrison-Hansley, Bill McCowen
-62: David Hitches, Ian Raby Sr., Ian Raby Jr.,
-63: David Hitches, Klaas Twisk, David Cole
The streets of the track still exist, and there are lots of
photograpshs from the period of racing... The name of the track
was "Elaintarha", "The Zoo". The 3dr letter "a" should have 2 dots on top.
The GPL version would be a gem for F3 drivers, a nightmare to F1!
I can guess Dave has many more important projects, but when there
perhaps some day is an "easy-to-use" track editor for GPL, I really
would like to have a re-incarnation of this wonderful track...
)
Well...
Arto
hehe... Sorry but I just have to brag... Ranked 725 with a Handicap of
304.140 with my little F3. If you are so far down the list, maybe you
should try the Basic trainers(?) They may not be as fast as an F1 or even
as exciting because you're so much slower then an F1, but at least you can
easily learn a track! and a side benefit would be soaring up the rankings
list ;-)
Track Chassis Time Type
Kyalami Ferrari 01:39.16 T
Mexico Ferrari 02:11.38 T
Monaco Ferrari 01:44.51 T
Monza Ferrari 01:54.54 T
Mosport Ferrari 01:39.20 T
N�rburgring Ferrari 09:40.87 P
Rouen Ferrari 02:26.91 T
Silverstone Ferrari 01:49.15 T
Spa-Francorchamps Ferrari 04:15.79 T
Watkins Glen Ferrari 01:20.64 T
Zandvoort Ferrari 01:42.21 T
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