Becoming a Grand Prix Legend
Saturday, March 27, 2004
at : 3/27/2004 12:00:00 pm
at : 3/27/2004 12:00:00 pm
Hi all. Well last night I found out that it can be nice to drive on certain difficult circuits after all. Usually when I go to circuits like Silverstone or Monaco mainly the last one costs me more in spare Lotus parts than I make up for with fast laps. But last night it was the other way around. Check it out: Biek on pole position in Monaco! Yeah well, I wouldn't believe me also but lucky for me I do have the screen shots to prove it :-)
Then I went to Silverstone. I was not expecting too much but I just thought I'd drive along with the others and try and find out where I was loosing the time. I threw away all my previous setups and used a slightly modified default setup again. This helps sometimes so why not this time, right? Time to meet the AI runners ...
The only 'problem' with AI is that they run a very slow out lap and when they pass the start/finish line they quickly vanish in the distance, directly running laps at race speed.
Only not this time. I was trailing Jack Brabham and when he started his first timed lap I could still chase him and keep up with his speed. This surprised me a bit since I have major problems on Silverstone usually.
Nonetheless I stuck in there chasing him for a couple of laps before making a little mistake and parking a perfectly good Lotus in the wall somewhere. I accept bids from twelve thousand pounds and up ...
When checking out my time there I was even more surprised: another track had been classified negative in Biek's profile! Now I still need to find some extra speed to even the score with Bas' time but I was happy with this one anyway as you can imagine.
It may take some time but I'm getting there one step at a time. For some reason I seem to be able to control the car better every time I drive it. And this helps me enormously putting in solid lap times of course. My GPL Ranking is a plus nine something already and I keep driving little bits of seconds off it.
Going for negative,
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