Hi Richard,
What a great race both must have been!..Wish I was there, as it sounds
as though the random-breakdown model is alive and well! =)
Cheers!
Marc
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> WOW!
> I just finished a 100% race at Interlagos? (2nd one in season) and won.
> What I went through was amazing.
> I had set my pitstops to be on lap 23 and 43 ish. I saved the game in
> the pit lane at my first stop.
> I was going great, in the lead, until lap 41, when I noticed that I
> couldnt light all the lights in 5th gear. Odd, I thought, no next time
> round I wathed more closely - yup, looks like a problem, I wonder if
> it's a bug. Then on lap 43 I accelerated away from the 1st corner combo,
> and suddenly BOOM! - loads of smoke, and Wallace informs me that "the
> engine has exploded"....ahhh, so that was it!
> A couple of hours later I wanted to play again - the a thought struck
> me. In GP2 it decides what's going to happen at the beginning of the
> race, but what about F1RS. Could I change what happened?
> So I reloaded my save from the first pitstop to see if I could make the
> engine blow later in the race. I drove VERY carefully, making sure that
> no lights came on, watching out for overrevving under braking, and
> acceleration.
> Lap 41 - no problem...lap 42 - still ok...lap 43 - no, OK pit stop time.
> I pitted and carried on driving carefully. After a while I got bored and
> decided to go for it a bit more.
> Now...14 laps from the end - I'm leading - not long to go - HANG ON! 22
> litres of fuel, 1.96 litres per lap, oh no!
> A this point I realised that my careful driving had meant more time with
> a WOT, which meant I used up my fuel quicker. So now I'm driving to
> coneserve fuel. 1.6? litres/lap...1.54 l/l - that's better.
> The next thing...a Ferrari all over me - damn, Schumacher's ,caught me.
> A quick look 16.? litres of fuel, 8 laps to go, LET'S GO!
> What a race! I just had to tell someone 8-)
> --
> Cheers,
> Richard.
> Richard UNDERSCORE Beckett AT ecid DOT cig DOT mot DOT com 
