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This comment prompted me to go and take a look at the pole times in
1967 now that we see what has panned out in GPL.

  See here - http://www.erinet.com/dclayton/formel1


  I'm even more impressed with GPL now. In most cases, GPL WRs are
within a few % of the pole times from back then. Kyalami and Spa are the
only tracks where you see a substantial difference, and I know that in
the case of Kyalami that the track in GPL is slightly different from the
way it was in 67.

   With SCGT we have a situation of about a 20% difference from real
life. IMO, that's way to much of a difference for any racing game to
legitimately be able to call itself a sim. And it seems obvious that
this is due to the magnatraction effect it seems to have. It's as though
we're on a planet were gravity is double what it is here on earth or
something.

DAVID wrote:
> 
> Have you ever seen a guy run a 7 minute lap at the Ring with a 67 model
> year GP car.
> Sims and real is FEAR.
> 
> Mudtroll <mudtroll@aol.com> wrote in article
> <19990320174417.18471.00000560@ng109.aol.com>...
> > Funny last time I raced at Lime Rock Park the pole position was on the
> inside
> > (like most tracks around the world).  Besides that I have never seen any
> one
> > take the turn after the left hander flat out or the turn before the
> diving turn
> > flat out like the demo allows.
> >
