Ten Tenths Friendly Racing League (TTFRL) for GPL - Season 3

[Spudgun]

A bit late I know (I've been very busy!) but the standings have been updated on the TTFRL website.

I tried a few laps round Goodwood earlier, the first time I've driven round there since the last race we had there. So far I'm on 1:17.6, relatively comfortably so I'm hoping to improve that in praccy tomorrow night.

Remember kids, the race is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 20:00 GMT (not BST the clocks have gone back an hour if that is going to affect those in continental Europe).

[Aysedasi]

Originally posted by pirenzo
With the cars of the day, who knows.
I doubt given that ability they'd get very far in modern F1, where set-up of the car is almost the be-all and end-all.

Most of them would've learned - they'd have had to. The really awesome thought is the likes of Senna and Schumacher in the 67 (or thereabouts) era cars. Where driver skill was so much more important than set up, driver aids, blah, blah, blah.......

Perhaps one day they'll find the technology to be able to model Senna in a 49........


BTW Spud - looks like you and me are in roughly the same area of the ballpark - which probably means racing for 3rd or 4th! I need a good solid race after driving very poorly at Bathurst.

[pirenzo]

I'm not sure I'll make it tonight yet guys...

[Aysedasi]

When will you know?

[pirenzo]

I don't know when I'll know. My brother said last week he didn't mind me racing on his birthday, but things may have changed now, especially as he's got a PC game this morning for his birthday. (Rollercoaster Tycoon 2)

[ozywoodwards]

sry guys. not gonna be able to able to make it. going out with some of my course mates at uni.

looks like you and spud could be battling for victory ayse.

[Muzza]

Ok, it looks like the new Logitech drivers are working fine so I hope this time I will not be a DNS!

Cheers,

Muzza
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[Aysedasi]

Well I've just got back from my meeting, and somehow I don't feel much in the mood for this one.



But I'll be there.

[Dani Filth]

sorry . didn't even get to practice goodwood with Brabham . i installed the track a few days ago . but didn't actually do a lap on it .
but the good news .. is . tommorow i'm going to pick up the wheel . oh boy oh boy oh boy .. but somehow i know it's not gonna be that easy to beat my times

[Muzza]

Sorry, folks, GPL keeps crashing. The new device drivers Logitech did not work after all.

[pirenzo]

Sorry guys, GPL crashed going into T1

[Muzza]

Hell, I am very, very disappointed. I just cannot get my steering wheel to work. If I use it offline it crashes occasionally, say once every hour and a half of use, but using it online is impossible. As soon as I click on the green rectangular to start a race the game runs for three of five seconds and crash.

Oddly, it crashes even if I don't touch the wheel.

[Spudgun]

The replay for Goodwood is now available on the TTFRL website.

[Aysedasi]

There must be some klind of conflict there Muzza. What other devices do you have connected?

Very, very disappointing turn-out tonight guys. Just me, pirenzo, Spud and Gil started the race and both p and Gil suffered computer crashes. Muzza tried valiantly, but didn't get to run and I saw Pete put his head in but leave soon after.

So where is everyone? Waiting for next season or running in other leagues?

[Muzza]

Thanks for your sympathy, Ayse. It crashed three times, than I tried to re-install the drivers during qualifying but I ran out of time to join the race.

I don't have any fancy device (like videocap or anything like that). My laptop has a lot of things packed in (it is a HP zd7160, kind of top shelf laptop), and then I have a Targus mouse, a HP 2410 scanner/printer/copier and my infamous Logitech Momo Racing wheel...

The troublesome thing is that last Friday I did a clean install (Windows script partially off) and nonetheless it is still crashing.

I am back to my office now. Just before leaving home I tried to do another clean install, even more minimal, but I don't hold much hope it will work. I have copies of the XML and DMP error logs, but I can't open them with any software (not even Notepad), so I don't knnow what they say.

The "error manifest" generated by Windows reads

Server=watson.microsoft.com
UI LCID=1033
Flags=1696080
Brand=WINDOWS
TitleName=Microsoft Windows
DigPidRegPath=HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId
ErrorText=A log of this error has been created.
HeaderText=The system has recovered from a serious error.
Stage2URL=
Stage2URL=/dw/bluetwo.asp?BCCode=10000012&BCP1=00000002&BCP2=8001003B&BCP3=00000000&BCP4=00000000&OSVer=5_1_2600&S P=2_0&Product=768_1
DataFiles=C:\DOCUME~1\SALCHI~1.SAL\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER5a97.dir00\Mini110804-01.dmp|C:\DOCUME~1\SALCHI~1.SAL\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER5a97.dir00\sysdata.xml
ErrorSubPath=blue
DirectoryDelete=C:\DOCUME~1\SALCHI~1.SAL\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER5a97.dir00

Which basically opnly points for the two files I mention above. The error report back to Microsoft directs me to a page about device driver errors - but then... What do I do?


Muzza

[pirenzo]

Very annoyed.

Pole, and set on race fuel too. Made a stupid mistake and spun after 3 laps, recovered and drove half a lap more, in which time I'd almost caught up with the next guy already, and it just froze on me. Gutted to tell you the truth. Sick and tired now of not scoring for whatever reason.

[Aysedasi]

I saw you fall off and ran off myself almost in sympathy. I ended up wedged behind an advertising hoarding. Had to virtually do a three-point turn to get going again.....

I sympathise, but what can we do? I can't feel guilty that I have a good connection, even though I know I've won races this season I don't deserve.......

[pirenzo]

Originally posted by Aysedasi
I saw you fall off and ran off myself almost in sympathy. I ended up wedged behind an advertising hoarding. Had to virtually do a three-point turn to get going again.....

I sympathise, but what can we do? I can't feel guilty that I have a good connection, even though I know I've won races this season I don't deserve.......

Hey Ayse, just think of it as finally making up for S1 and S2, both of which you could have won, and in S1 really should have won IMO.

[Aysedasi]

Well, whatever. I'm lucky I guess to have

a) a very good online connection, and
b) the ability to be available to race virtually every race. (I think I've missed no more than 3 races in 2. something seasons, and one of those was a re-run........)

Still, there's still 5 races to go and all to play for. There's nothing much between Spud and I and you could still win it easily if you were able to make most of the remaining races.

[Aysedasi]

I can't say I'm particularly looking forward to racing the BRM at Solitude though - a bit like the waste of Le Mans last year........

[petestenning]

Sorry,
Ayse but i came out of the pits 3 times and never got further than St Marys. Got
off, so went and raced in another race at Spa and set PB.

Solitude may look better in anything compared to Goodwood.

Pete

[Aysedasi]

Shame Pete, we missed you.

Goodwood is a circuit which you grow to like very quickly, once you've got a grasp of how you need to drive it. Like many circuits, it seems really difficult at first, but you can get to drive it reasonably well quite quickly. I suspect you will find Solitude more difficult - particularly in the BRM.

[petestenning]

I must be mad as i am getting to like the BRM even driving it on some fun races. Had a non championship BRM spec race at Silvy not long ago and quite enjoyed it.

[Aysedasi]

The BRM races quite well at Silver. As I recall, I won the season 2 race there in it.......

[pirenzo]

Originally posted by Aysedasi
I can't say I'm particularly looking forward to racing the BRM at Solitude though - a bit like the waste of Le Mans last year........

I gave it a go some time back, its not too bad. There are GH setups for it too, and an MP setup. So not too bad on that front.
To be honest though, would we enjoy it in any car? Its a pretty frustrating track isn't it, and at least we're not in the honda...