Round 1 - Buenos Aires (Jan 10th)

Consistency was also taken into account, and Richard's finishing ratio on open wheelers is not as good.

Greg, You are only 3 tenths slower than me, I'm hardly dominating. My wins are either, class wins or when the quicker guys have dropped out.

Plus you do realise you are currently driving last years car. You have the new Shadow DN9 coming in a few rounds time.

Well guys, the first official qualy session hasn't even started and there's already protesting around. I guess we are doing a perfect simulation of the real F1 season, aren't we?  

But seriously, this field is VERY COMPLEX and the future car upgrades will have a big part on the results. Remember what happened with the Williams in the F1 79 mod?

Let us go on with the season and we will see, everyone tighten the balls and go for it on the track

https://i.servimg.com/u/f68/19/06/69/34/tablea13.jpg



For me the third best car of the field is the TYRRELL just behind BRABHAM in first and FERRARI in second

but it is ok  
the championship begins and some people are perhaps more lucky
We saw in the first Half of the season.
the laps are very important in the same team and with all the field
It will be funny to see in race , the choices of setup and the fights.  

So i think that a part important will be done to the style , the tires wear , the fuel consumption and easy car to drive
So we will see

You are Forgetting the Lotus, Arrows and Wolf. All of which are better overall than the Tyrrell. You have to judge a team over the season, not just one race.

You know the real reason for these comments? Because people are anxious to start Man we should have scheduled a race earlier, everybody here is full of high octane gasoline pumping adrenaline, we all look forward to the first race and the wait is killing our nerves

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Because people are anxious to start  

No question.  30 entries and everyone chomping at the bit. 

Sorry, but i want a lotus 79, i am entitled to it. Oh and i want it in every race please

I'm content to drive the Merzario, as long as everyone else gets a 500 kgs weight penalty

Winning is not the main purpose,enjoying a good clean race is

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Remember what happened with the Williams in the F1 79 mod?

Best ground effect car ever made, even better than the Lotus 79?

As soon as the FW07 came in(replacing the FW06, who was a good non-ground effect car), it was very competitive. Some small mechanical issues at the start, but Jones nearly caught up with the Ferraris towards the season end. At least Rega had the privilege to score Williams' first win )

Also, me slower than Richard?

lets spice the track for a much better race experience

include new textures (Culmone) and new Cam file

It's free choice to use and if Ben is broadcasting this , its recommend


Instalment: simply drop the GPC79Tracks folder in locations and let it overwrite
No mismatches !!!!


http://www.mediafire.com/download/87gypp1zaxhwy2l/Text_cam_BuenosAires79.7z

François Remmen wrote:

include new textures (Culmone) and new Cam file

i recommend this to all and if Ben is broadcasting this , use it!

How much it will slower down my computer, since its runing on the edge of possibilities...

two questions:

what is "ARMS" and "NO ARMS" in the menu MODIFICATION of the car ?

what is the method to choose the good temperature of the brakes and the good setup (1 ,2 3)?

Pascal Le pihive wrote:

two questions:

what is "ARMS" and "NO ARMS" in the menu MODIFICATION of the car ?

If you have ARMS, you will see arms in the cockpit holding and turning the wheel... (and you wont if you turn off the wheel, like me). NO ARMS will show only wheel, like in the most mods.

I dint get that 1-2-3 braking setup??

Brake cooling? 2 may be enough.

Richard Coxon wrote:

Brake cooling? 2 may be enough.

aahhh....

Generally, do 10 laps a see what temps you get. Then either find information on the car for when the brakes begin to fade.  

In these older cars, about 250 should be the very upper limit for what the brakes may be able to survive. That is since there is only 1 big and hard braking zone at BAires, so 2 brake duct should do unless the car is very heavy I think.

Hey fellow racers, just to inform you that there will be a broadcast of the race on our YouTube channel.
HSO YouTube Channel

Ben Paulet wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCETgHaxNvnU1vJ9UqKhNUqg

Ben Paulet wrote:

Hey fellow racers, just to inform you that there will be a broadcast of the race on our YouTube channel.
HSO YouTube Channel

I will be a very interested spectator.

We plan to make some interviews during qualy session. We will open the mic to the people who will give up during the race too. For the interested people, you just need Teamspeak.
We will add the TS room address here a few later.

Will the interviews be in French or English?  Or both?

The both, I will do the french drivers interviews, and Alberto, Richard or You(during qualy ) will do all the others languages.

After each round of this championship, I will be posting national anthems for the winning driver and constructor using this channel: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalAnthemsChan/videos

Sort of a virtual podium, minus the champagne