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- Ardius_
A good suggestion for anyone who spins: don't panic, block the track for everyone behind you, or try and turn around.. Just pause the game and reset to track.
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7th GTP F1 World Championship (F1 2010 edition) * SEASON FINISHED :'''( *F1 2010-2016
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- Shaggy_Alonso
A good suggestion for anyone who spins: don't panic, block the track for everyone behind you, or try and turn around.. Just pause the game and reset to track.
I can't remember if that's a feature that works online, hopefully it is as it's a really good suggestion.
So guys, practice tonight at 20:30 UK time.
Hope to see some of you there 👍
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- mikethehockeyfan
As far as I remember that does indeed work online.
Your car, after reset, is a couple of metres behind where you spun, and is ghosted until you have an adequate amount of free space around you to unghost :up:
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Right I just got back from uni and as much as I'd love to fly around Monaco with you guys I think I need a pint or two, esspecially after my exam this morning haha.
I think I'd have to stop racing after about 10 laps though (if that) coz of my wheel alignment moving to the left every few turns. So son't know if I'll make the actual race now :/ Don't fancy using the control pad as the chances of hitting one of you on this track goes up drastically. I'll let you know before hand anyway 👍
I think I'd have to stop racing after about 10 laps though (if that) coz of my wheel alignment moving to the left every few turns. So son't know if I'll make the actual race now :/ Don't fancy using the control pad as the chances of hitting one of you on this track goes up drastically. I'll let you know before hand anyway 👍
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- mikethehockeyfan
I can still practice. Just msg me on PSN, shaggy.
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- Shaggy_Alonso
Sorry for the late start. I'm ready now, invites sent
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Sorry guys, rage quit just then. Track was driving me mad. No point me driving on in that frame of mind.
Started off alright but I kept clipping kerbs and getting flung into the air etc. Sorry for hitting people at the chicane out of the tunnel, I was braking well before the 100m mark both times but I was just locking up the brakes as soon as I applied pressure.
The track is amazing fun but it's just so unforgiving.
Started off alright but I kept clipping kerbs and getting flung into the air etc. Sorry for hitting people at the chicane out of the tunnel, I was braking well before the 100m mark both times but I was just locking up the brakes as soon as I applied pressure.
The track is amazing fun but it's just so unforgiving.
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- mikethehockeyfan
Patience, grasshopper.
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- Shaggy_Alonso
Strange, as soon as you left James, Mike got disconnected too. Which was kind of weird as he couldn't join my lobby until we switched it so you were the host and you invited him. It's as if he was only able to be in the room so long as you were host. Hope we don't have this problem on Sunday.
Heh, it was staggering just how impossible it was to pass. Basically, you can only overtake if someone makes a big mistake. Even when someone does make a mistake though, sometimes there's just no room to get past them anyway.
Baumi seemed to be struggling out of Portier so I was frequently getting a good run at him out of the tunnel but since it's a curved approach, if you try to outbrake someone here on the inside you just lock up the brakes unavoidably.
I didn't realise you'd been racing with a pad Mike because your driving seemed quite erratic but I think this was just because of the pad. However, you were taking some really weird lines, Morgan esque lines (James will know what I mean) into turns 5 & 6 where you just hugged the inside line as if you were defending, but you did this every time which made me think this was just your racing line? Is this so?
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Yeah braking down the inside here simply isn't possible. Heads up to people trying this.
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Weird, I usually go long and on the outside into the Turn 6 hairpin so I can get a nice aggressive line out with a late apex. If I was hugging the inside on that turn it was because I had (or thought I had) Shaggy up my backside.
Monaco is all about holding position and not making any errors, so if someone behind me is less than a second or three back I usually take a very defensive line. That may explain why I hug the slippery inside of Mirabeau a lot. I'm also very wary of Mirabeau because that's the turn everyone tries to outbrake and pass on the inside, only finding no grip, spinning the car, and chucking it into the guy in front on the outside of the turn.
All those laps you were tailing me you probably witnessed my "online defense mechanism" built up through many hours of getting punted off track or into the Monaco barriers from behind in multiplayer, heh.
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- mikethehockeyfan
You can be very liberal with the first bend of kerbs at that chicane, I usually have about half the car on the inside of the kerb with no penalty, and then you can get a few more metres of acceleration for the long straight.
I still have a lot of setup and practice work to do before race day. I need about 3 seconds a lap if I want to hope for a podium.
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- Ardius_
To be fair guys, Monaco has always been this way in every game I've ever played, don't even think about overtaking unless you are well ahead in the braking zone or have such a huge advantage that you blast past on the exit of a corner.
Having said that, you can pull off a clean and successful overtake with the right opportunity into places such as the Rascasse. Its just in F1 2010, with the easily-locked brakes and slippery surface, its easy to run wide and crash.
I have had a couple of demon overtaking moves though, mostly into Rascasse actually because you have a little more freedom on the brakes there, but it is always due to the guy ahead going too slow through the Swimming Pool or getting a bit of oversteer, either letting me drive on the outside or inside. I agree that I wouldn't recommend this as its only luck that the other guy saw me and didn't take me or himself out. Mirabeau and the Nouvelle chicane are too slippy in this game to really pull the move off cleanly.
This why we are going to have to have some patience with backmarkers, and also why I suggest we all run a practice start on Sunday because turn 1 is going to end in tears.
I love Monaco as its such a test of concentration. It might be easy to try and relax and not attack too much to avoid clipping the barriers..but you can lose whole seconds of time if you don't attack every corner every lap. In the first sector alone I can lose 7 tenths if I try to drive carefully compared to going flat out.
Having said that, you can pull off a clean and successful overtake with the right opportunity into places such as the Rascasse. Its just in F1 2010, with the easily-locked brakes and slippery surface, its easy to run wide and crash.
I have had a couple of demon overtaking moves though, mostly into Rascasse actually because you have a little more freedom on the brakes there, but it is always due to the guy ahead going too slow through the Swimming Pool or getting a bit of oversteer, either letting me drive on the outside or inside. I agree that I wouldn't recommend this as its only luck that the other guy saw me and didn't take me or himself out. Mirabeau and the Nouvelle chicane are too slippy in this game to really pull the move off cleanly.
This why we are going to have to have some patience with backmarkers, and also why I suggest we all run a practice start on Sunday because turn 1 is going to end in tears.
I love Monaco as its such a test of concentration. It might be easy to try and relax and not attack too much to avoid clipping the barriers..but you can lose whole seconds of time if you don't attack every corner every lap. In the first sector alone I can lose 7 tenths if I try to drive carefully compared to going flat out.
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- Shaggy_Alonso
Another thing to mention is that Loews hairpin should really be single file through there. It's not really a proper place to overtake anyone. Unless you go through here extremely slowly you're bound to crash into the car ahead. So please, no silly moves up the inside here just because you see a gap - it just never works 👎
Skip to 3:20 to see what I mean
Skip to 3:20 to see what I mean
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I tried that against you yesterday after you went wide and was convinced it was going to work. But my rear right wheel must of caught you b/c I got tapped into the wall after that. That to me was a genuine opportunity to pass and that didn't even work.
So yeah lol @ this track.
So yeah lol @ this track.
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- fissionproject
Is it cool if I add some of you gents to my friends list?
I'm in the USA but it would be nice to possibly catch some of you guys online to practice and actually race with competent people who know how to properly race instead of randomly popping into 3 lap sprints...lol
I'm in the USA but it would be nice to possibly catch some of you guys online to practice and actually race with competent people who know how to properly race instead of randomly popping into 3 lap sprints...lol
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Aight I added some of you guys for potential racing / practice sessions
Couldn't find your PSN Mike
Couldn't find your PSN Mike
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OK, finally had a chance to do some practice. Started with chasing Shaggy around in Time Trial mode, started to feel comfortable using the racing lines in the corners, turned off the lines and got slower (expected) but still had some time to get better 
Practice session 2, GP Mode, pure carnage. Every practice session ended in total destruction of the car 👎 Tomorrow is going to be a handful, hoping I can finish the race! I'll be staying out of everyone's way
More seat time needed at Monaco! See you all tomorrow!
Practice session 2, GP Mode, pure carnage. Every practice session ended in total destruction of the car 👎 Tomorrow is going to be a handful, hoping I can finish the race! I'll be staying out of everyone's way
More seat time needed at Monaco! See you all tomorrow!
Hi there,
nice qualifying session yesterday expect of the perez crash.
But there was a time were a driver could drive half a second faster than the second without having the best car in the field.
Do you remember the 96 Ferrari? It was a midfield car.
Enjoy and listen the awesome comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z63CsjH1LwI
I miss these days in F1 where driving skills had much bigger influence than today.
See you in race this evening
Best regards
DarkPSI
nice qualifying session yesterday expect of the perez crash.
But there was a time were a driver could drive half a second faster than the second without having the best car in the field.
Do you remember the 96 Ferrari? It was a midfield car.
Enjoy and listen the awesome comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z63CsjH1LwI
I miss these days in F1 where driving skills had much bigger influence than today.
See you in race this evening
Best regards
DarkPSI
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- Shaggy_Alonso
This phase of Schumacher's career was his most glorious in my opinion. Sure he has some staggering records that he achieved later on, but I really don't think they mean as much as his performances like Magny Cours '95, Spa '95, Monaco qualifying '96 and Barcelona '96 or Hungary '98 amongst many others. These are all I need to be assured that he's not the same driver now as he used to be. Likewise, I'll always rate Kubica as a true great of the sport even if he never makes it back.
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- Ardius_
Midfield? Irvine managed to qualify it 7th, so it couldn't have been that bad. Sure it was an awesome lap by Michael, but lets not exaggerate his achievements, the car wasn't that bad, it wasn't the best car and it was behind the Williams and Benetton, but it wasn't far behind. Let's also not forget he crashed it on the first lap all on his own too.
The driver can still make the difference today, its just the entire field is much closer than back then. Nowadays we easily have 16 or so world-class drivers in the field who on their day could win races. Its not as easy for top drivers to completely dominate the lesser drivers in different cars.
Obviously also all the cars are much closer together these days, so its much harder to a car to be seconds in pace ahead of everyone else.
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- Shaggy_Alonso
Further evidence from Hamilton and Di Resta that moves up the inside of Loews hairpin should be avoided. Just forget about it.
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- mikethehockeyfan
You know, I would give it a try by watching the real t-cam footage of a lap on Youtube and practicing without a racing line at all.OK, finally had a chance to do some practice. Started with chasing Shaggy around in Time Trial mode, started to feel comfortable using the racing lines in the corners, turned off the lines and got slower (expected) but still had some time to get better
Practice session 2, GP Mode, pure carnage. Every practice session ended in total destruction of the car 👎 Tomorrow is going to be a handful, hoping I can finish the race! I'll be staying out of everyone's way
More seat time needed at Monaco! See you all tomorrow!
I find racing lines and watching for the signal to brake actually hurts you a lot when learning a circuit.
Let alone during a race where drivers rely on the racing line to pick their braking points, and overshoot and hit the car in front because they werent looking for it.
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- tombrookscomms
Is headset wearing permitted for this race Ben?
