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    My best race ever happened last Sunday at Melbourne in F1RS.  As ac challenge
to myself I decided to drive the underpowered Prost.  After setting the third
fastest time in Friday Practice I was a little disappointed when I only qualified
8th on the grid, but then again Panis qualified 19th.  I was in the zone the minute
that the lights went out; I got a great start( granted both Benetton's and a
Williams got together) and at the exit of right left combo I was second right on
Schumi's gearbox.  Probably my best move of the race happened at the last turn when
I passed Schumi on the outside then cut of his chance to pass me back going into
the first corner.  But, I only led for 7 laps when I spun in the sweeping right
hander before the pit entrance.  Now I was in 4th place trying to catch Hakkinen,
but this wasn't working so I decided to wait until the pit stops.  But, then two
laps from my pit stop and in position to pass Hakk I got a short-cut penatly for
taking the left hander at the pit entrance to wide.  I served my penatly and then I
made my pit stop and at this point I was way back in 14th place.  The next 15 laps
were fairly un eventful except that I made up 9 position because the one stoppers
all pitted.  Then three laps before my second pit-stop I went really long into the
2nd gear right hander before the Coca-Cola Bridge and I lost 6 seconds to Hakk who
by now was 25 seconds a head of me.  As I came in for my 2nd stop Hakk was leaving
so I knew I would have to go hard.  And that's exactly what i did cutting into
Hakk's lap times by up to 1.5 seconds a lap.  Then with ten laps he ran into lap
traffic and I was now only 6 seconds back.  I made it through the traffic with no
trouble and caught up with Hakk who had been blocked for a Stewart for about 2
laps.  With six laps left I passed Hakk on the turn 4 left hander
(the inside the big parking lot?) and then passed the Stewart about 3 or 4 turns
latter.  I couldn't believe it that I was in 3rd place!  Then looking at the lap
times as the final laps went by I was taking 3 to 4 seconds a lap off Schumi some
25 seconds ahead of me.  But it was too late and I was more than happy with
finishing 3rd after the bogus pentalty.  I just wish that their was 10 more laps,
then I would have won the race.  I would have spun some donuts but the game takes
control of the car.
-Adam

UnserFan11 wrote:

> Well, I had a hell of a race on Grand Prix Legends yesterday.  It wasn't
> necessarily my best race, but it is the only one that comes to mind right now,
> heh.  I was racing against Clark, Hill, Brabham, Hulme, and Gurney at Monza in
> a 6 lap race.  I started in third with my second fastest lap ever, 1:30.88
> (I've only had the sim for two months, give me a break!)
> Anyway, on the start, I was horribly slow and was in last by the time I got to
> Curva Grande, but I picked up a position right through there.  I held position
> until the corner before Parabolica, where I edged around Gurney on the outside.
>  For the next two laps I held in third.  With three laps to go, I slid under
> Hill into Parabolica pulling a spectacular slide job like you would see in a
> midget race.  I slid behind Clark and drafted on him with two laps to go,
> sliding by him just barely into Curva Grande, around the outside, but I
> couldn't get enough momentum out of the corner and had to slip into his draft
> again.  I get a great run towards Parabolica, topping out at 198 mph in my
> Lotus and went underneath Clark and braked late.  I made my turn in while going
> 90 mph, well too fast to get through the corner.  I turned in hard, trying to
> get sideways to slow down.  I fought the wheel as my tires bobbled into the
> grass, all four of them got off road.  I slid back out onto the track, bouncing
> over the curbing and sliding way high on the track.  I regained control and
> took my car lower as Clark looked inside, so I pinched him onto the curb and
> caused him to slow.  I batteled onto the front stretch, taking the lead.
> Towards Curva Grand, Clark once again looked inside with one lap to go.  I
> decided that I had nothing to lose since it was the final lap, so I drove my
> car to its limits and slid through the turn, holding off Clark and getting an
> excellent run onto the straightaway.  I slid my car through the Lesmos
> extremely well and got a great run into Parabolica and a great run out, causing
> me to beat Jim Clark to the checkers by .43 seconds, gaining my first ever GPL
> victory.  I should've turned some donuts like Zanardi, but I was too excited to
> do anything!  LOL



