POLL: Favourite GPL Car and Track!

Just to satisfy my own curiousity. I started off with the Ferrari 312 but I decided to diversify and try the other cars, esp. the Eagle T1G, the BRM P115 and the Brabham BT24. I did not mess too much with the fantasy cars or the Lotus 49. In any case I really disliked the BT24; the low-revving, high-torque motor and twitchy handling is not my style. Throttle control is paramount and it's just not me. The BRM is a load of fun actually. It doesn't demand too much accuracy or driving skill for that matter. The engine is also very benign except near the red. It fun but it's not fast. Great for that last night blast before bedtime. And the H16 sounds cute. The T1G is a sweet car like the 312. No terrible vices unlike the other cars. Fast enough. I await Alison Hine's setup for the T1G. Well I went back to the 312 and this is the car for me. Alison's setup is great. It makes the 312 supremely driveable. After messing with the others, it's great to settle down to clearly superior car. Is the Lotus 49 better? Probably but overall the 312 is a complete package and it's less tiring to drive. Favourite track? Probably Rouen. A little over 2 minutes of country road. The trees, some of those really diabolical corners. And that hairpin. This is the best. T.

Lotus Rouen

favourite track: watkins glen. 2nd is rouen :-) then glen is a very demanding, very short track where you have to get into the right groove. right-left-right through the esses, breathe in, concentration on braking for the loop, acceleration from the loop, breath out. then right-left and calm down for the ninety :-) this track has some very difficult turns/braking points on a very short distance: braking for and acceleration from the loop, taking the bend and the ninety. i loooove this one :-) rouen is of course very nice too and i also started to like this track after i could do the hairpin several times in a row without crashing :-) favourite car: brabham. 2nd: ferrari. they both have character - the brabham is very difficult to drive, but because of its high torque at low revs, driving patient is kind of a zen experience - you just drive and your mind is driving around the track :-) the ferrari is much more impulsive and ... well ... italian. the best 'weapon' (as someone in this thread stated before) is the lotus, but i find this car boring and i almost consider driving the lotus as cheating ;-) and i made my experiences with lotus hotlappers - maybe that's why I associate the lotus with reckless driving ;-) Lio

Favorite track, Silverstone Favorite car, Ferrari

Throttle control is pretty much the central point of all the cars once you start aproaching the limits. What's better ? If the criteria is lap times then go here: http://216.13.117.36/~schubi/fastlaps.htm There's a reason that just about every top ten lap time was done in a Lotus. The Nurburgring. Although I must admit that I'm having trouble getting away from the Ring to even try the rest. But I have spent time at Monza and the Glen, and they are not in the same league. Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C.

Car: Ferrari (of course) After having driven the workman like Eagle exclusively for the first six months after GPL released (a great chassis in it's own right), I moved on to the Ferrari and fell in love with the way the short wheelbase really responds to control input, sure the Ferrari engine lacks the Eagle's or Lotus' top speed, but it makes up for it with great brakes and pure driving pleasure. Besides I've wanted to be a Scuderia Ferrari driver since I was a kid :-) Track: Nurburgring. No other track ever modeled in any sim has even come close to combining the Ring's level of exciting and tricky road sections with flat out pedal to the metal straights and even elevation changes that see your car catching air, fun! fun! FUN! I will forever be thankful to Papyrus for having given me the opportunity to drive the Ring. Close second is probably Spa and Monaco. Seeyas on the track. --John (Joao) Silva

Favorite track: Spa Favorite Car: Eagle Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

Favorite track: Zandvoort -- Bob Curtin Worcester Area Strategy & Tactics Exchange http://www.tiac.net/users/ten10ths/ "If God had intended men to join the Army he would have given us green, baggy skin"

Car: The Brabham BT24. Just shift when you REALLY need to. Quick handling, lightning-fast acceleration, and the F2/3 advantage (no loss in power/handling, but a 50 lb advantage on the other cars) is nice :) Track: 1st, Zandy. Get through the first two 1st gear corners and get it up to 3rd, and leave it there until the end of the lap when you get to uncork it and slam it to the redline in 5th before slamming back on the brakes to 1st. 2nd, Monza. Surprising that I, a Brabham driver (lower top speed) would like this track, but it's just plain fun. 3rd for racing, Watkins Glen. The esses are awesome. 3rd for driving, The Ring. I have yet to break 11 minutes, but it's just plain cool!!! -- Kirk Lane ICQ: 28171652 BRT #187 "I read dead Russian authors volumes at a time I write everything down except what's on my mind 'Cause my greatest fear is the sucking sound And then I know I'll never get back out" -'Narcolepsy', Third Eye Blind

I couldn't have said it any better myself. Ferrari and the Ring it is. For exactly the same reasons. Zandy's the close second for me, tho. --- Antti Markus Peteri 15 miles. your dim light shines from so far away - Soul Asylum, Promises Broken

Favorite track: Nurburgring. It's too intense, it's pure "geek***". :) Favorite Car: Mura.. oops the Honda -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Favourite car: Brabham Favourite track: Zandvoort. No, Nurburgring. Wait, Zandy.... Brab at Zandy is like low level magi carpetting....right 'till you start eating grass :) Ben

My favourite car is probably the Brabham; responsive handling, sturdy and reliable construction, and although the engine isn't powerful it's very comfortable to drive. It's not quite that fast, it's more important that it suits my driving style. My second choice would be the Cooper, particularly for an inexperienced driver such as myself. At least until now my favourite circuit is Spa, although I expect the Nrburgring to offer greater challenge once I get around to learn it. Also, Monza offers good high-speed fun, and Zandvoort's smooth curves seemed absolutely fantastic. Silverstone, on the other hand, seems utterly dull, with its completely flat layout of absolutely uninteresting turns. I'm yet to decide if the Autodromo Nacional is pathetic, or fun in a somewhat perverse way.

Fave car, Honda with Tim Wheatley's setups (Great setup's Tim) Fave tracks, Spa & Mosport, I so much want to like the ring, it was the main reason i bought GPL in the first place, but it's just driving me nuts trying to lean it, currunt PB 10:19.05 lots of off's & generaly slow. Mark London UK Yamaha TRX850 (blowen up)

Favorite Car: Lotus 49. I just love the way that thing handles! Favorite Track: Hmm... I really love Spa, Monza, and Watkins Glen. They all kinda tie in my book for the best racecourse. Least favorite track is still probably Mexico. I just can't stand that track for some reason. And I'd probably like Rouen if I could ever figure out how to go one lap without wrecking there! <vbg> Dan Belcher Team Racing Unlimited

Favorite GPL track: Rouen Favorite GPL car: Eagle -- Chuck Kandler #70 K&S Racing http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 The box said "Windows 95 or better", so I installed LINUX!

>> Throttle control is paramount and it's just not me. Hint for the brabham setup: reduce front roll bar values, it's much more driveable that way (at least for me). Alis Brabham setups were still essentially low-rider when she created them. Mosport. Even though I suck at it. ;-) Cheers, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany (52.0N/8h30mE) Ever wondered what's wrong with the world? http://bnetwork.com/ PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

I'm with you Chuck, Favorite Car - Eagle Favorite Offline Track - Rouen...this week<g> Favorite Online Tracks - Silverstone, Monza, The Glen don [|]-(_)-[|]

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>Favorite GPL track: Rouen >Favorite GPL car: Eagle >-- >Chuck Kandler #70 >K&S Racing >http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 >The box said "Windows 95 or better", so I installed LINUX!

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Car - Ferrari, Track - Rouen. I'm gonna keep getting killed by Lotui and Eagles, but I just love that car, and Rouen keeps you on your toes every second. Zog

My Fave is the Ferrari with Alison's setups - i just wish i knew enough about setups to remove that ***y understeer!!! I am a more oversteer than understeer driver.... Fav Track - Rouen (thank god they put it in!!!) fav track 2 - Ring - nuff said. fav track 3 - Mexico worst track - Kyalmi i hate it!!

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> Just to satisfy my own curiousity. I started off with the Ferrari 312 > but I decided to diversify and try the other cars, esp. the Eagle T1G, > the BRM P115 and the Brabham BT24. I did not mess too much with the > fantasy cars or the Lotus 49. In any case I really disliked the BT24; > the low-revving, high-torque motor and twitchy handling is not my > style. Throttle control is paramount and it's just not me. > The BRM is a load of fun actually. It doesn't demand too much accuracy > or driving skill for that matter. The engine is also very benign except > near the red. It fun but it's not fast. Great for that last night blast > before bedtime. And the H16 sounds cute. > The T1G is a sweet car like the 312. No terrible vices unlike the other > cars. Fast enough. I await Alison Hine's setup for the T1G. > Well I went back to the 312 and this is the car for me. Alison's setup > is great. It makes the 312 supremely driveable. After messing with the > others, it's great to settle down to clearly superior car. Is the Lotus > 49 better? Probably but overall the 312 is a complete package and it's > less tiring to drive. > Favourite track? Probably Rouen. A little over 2 minutes of country > road. The trees, some of those really diabolical corners. And that > hairpin. This is the best. > T.

Favorite track - Nurburgring. It reminds me of driving around in the mountains of east Tennessee, and when you really hook up with the track it is like a symphony (with a couple of noteworthy "gotcha" corners!). Favorite car - Lotus if I want to be super-competitive and feel good enough to really work hard at racing; Ferrari with setup based on Alison Hine's for really enjoyable racing on any track. (The Lotus is a tough beast to tame at the Ring). Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

Every suspension and tire setting will change oversteer/understeer to a degree, but the easiest one to change is the rollbars. Shocks are mainly used for the start and end of a turn. Rollbars are used for the middle of a turn. I use Monza to get a general setup for shocks and rollbars then tweak it for other tracks. When the front rollbar is stiffer than the rear you will get understeer. When the rear rollbar is stiffer than the front you will get oversteer (well except for the Murasama which has a very well planted rear end!) I keep my roll bars fairly even but decrease the front by 1 notch and/or increase the rear by 1 notch to remove unwanted understeer. Jason > My Fave is the Ferrari with Alison's setups - i just wish i knew enough > about setups to remove that ***y understeer!!! I am a more oversteer > than understeer driver.... > > T. -------- Jason Monds "My other car is a Ferrari" http://members.home.net/gpl.mondsj/gpl (Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)

<snip> (The Lotus is a I also had lotsa trouble keeping the Lotus on the track at the Ring until i started using the default setup that comes with the 1.1 patch. It's made a huge difference for me, and i even managed my first pro-long race win using it last night. Cheers Phil Fav car & track.......3 guesses<g>

>1st. 2nd, Monza. Surprising that I, a Brabham driver (lower top speed) >would like this track, but it's just plain fun. 3rd for racing, Watkins What is your personal best at Monza? Although I prefer the Brabham on ever other track I have yet to break the 1:30 at this venue. Regards, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany (52.0N/8h30mE) Ever wondered what's wrong with the world? http://bnetwork.com/ PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61