Hot Diggity Dog! I Finished 4th in VROC at Monza!

Wow! I can't believe it. Using the Cooper I qualified 8th with a lap time of 1:36.19 Then I went on to do a 6 lap race with 11 other guys and finished 4th ... I passed the 4th place holder in the next to last turn (where the yellow guard rails are) on the final lap to take 4th. First time I have raced without getting passed or lapped.. Man I love this game.. Sorry for gloating.. -- -Gunslinger-

Keep practicing, and you'll be winning races and taking podiums in no time. - "If the meaning of life was printed in a book, someone would use it to keep the window open."

Hell, that ain't gloating... it's just exuberance! :-) I felt the same way when I won my first... --Dave

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> Wow! I can't believe it. > Using the Cooper I qualified 8th with a lap time of 1:36.19 > Then I went on to do a 6 lap race with 11 other guys and finished 4th > ... > I passed the 4th place holder in the next to last turn (where the > yellow guard rails are) on the final lap to take 4th. > First time I have raced without getting passed or lapped.. > Man I love this game.. > Sorry for gloating.. > -- > -Gunslinger-

-- Dave Schwabe The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

Same here. Was in one of those 18-player Monza races in the early weeks of GPL, with the HUGE wrecks and all. Had a mediocre qual time, was back about 13th. Lucky me, this let me avoid the big "furball" at the start, and get into about 5th. Staying cool and collected, and most importantly ON the track, I passed the guys spinning off. Get down to the last lap, running 3rd, pretty far from the 2nd place car. Going down the straight to Parabolica, I see two cars going in there, figure it's second place and a lapped car, thinking I might get lucky and get 2nd if the guy spins. So I'm coming into Parabolica, and see the two cars spun off. I pick through just as one of them gets going again. We both exit pretty close to each other, and drag race to the finish. I beat the guy by a foot or two at the line, and come to find out it was 1st and 2nd that got together, so that drag race was for the win!! I was shaking after that one, whoa what a rush! :-) -- Ken "If I went 'round claiming I was Emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away" - anonymous peasant Go #43 and #44! volksy (at) geocities (dot) com volksy (at) yahoo (dot) com >Hell, that ain't gloating... it's just exuberance! :-) I felt the same >way when I won my first... >--Dave >> Wow! I can't believe it. >> Using the Cooper I qualified 8th with a lap time of 1:36.19 >> Then I went on to do a 6 lap race with 11 other guys and finished 4th >> ... >> I passed the 4th place holder in the next to last turn (where the >> yellow guard rails are) on the final lap to take 4th. >> First time I have raced without getting passed or lapped.. >> Man I love this game.. >> Sorry for gloating.. >> -- >> -Gunslinger- >-- >Dave Schwabe >The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site >http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

Nothing wrong with a good gloat or two. <G> Looks like you are enjoying yourself discovering the fun and competition of GPL on-line. My wife got sick of me dragging her into the computer room, every time i managed to finish on the podium, just so i could gloat over the newspaper article with my name on it.. :-) Glad to see you doing some hosting as well. Good stuff.!! Cheers from an ex-gloater. <G> Ron Wow! I can't believe it. Using the Cooper I qualified 8th with a lap time of 1:36.19 Then I went on to do a 6 lap race with 11 other guys and finished 4th ... I passed the 4th place holder in the next to last turn (where the yellow guard rails are) on the final lap to take 4th. First time I have raced without getting passed or lapped.. Man I love this game.. Sorry for gloating.. -- -Gunslinger- ----------

Great! I saw your host and wondered how you were doing. Much more fun than hotlapping or racing the AI. Before you know it you'll be winning a few, Cheers, Paul