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Gee, wait till he is confronted with the 174 turns of the
Nurburgring! Oh, to be a fly on the wall :)))

=Gunslinger= wrote:
> 
> I was flabbergasted when I got the demo to work.. now I am beyond
> words... After going from the novice car with throttle and braking
> help to the full blown realistic everything.... Sim of the decade
> folks...
> I came barreling down the first straightway from the pits... Saw the
> hard right.. Did like i did in the novice car.. locked the brakes...
> Oopsy... The front wheels lock down.. the rear end actually LIFTS of
> the ground from the force!!!!.. Anyway, I follow Newtonian law of
> physics (once a body is in motion blah blah blah) and head straight
> into a bail of hay.. proceed to rip both left wheels off.. bounce over
> the guard rail and land outside the track area...
> I then decide I'll floor it.. for kicks... I hear this whine.. A
> bright flash then boom..WTF?
> I play back the replay.. It is so damn cool when I see my car come
> flying over the top of the hill.. the smoke shoots of the tires, the
> rear end attempts to become the front end... flip flip crash...
> Then I see what happened.. My engine blew up...
> If the demo is this cool.. My God..
> Tomorrow, me and my 11 month old daughter are going to Daddy's
> favorite toy store... If they don't have a copy I may do something I
> might regret...
> Flight sims.. Pah! I may never go back...
> I haven't had this much rush from a sim in a long.. loong .. hell
> never before..
> If NASCAR 3 is going to be this good... Oh Man...
> 
> Oh, and BTW, in the realistic car, the first try (after the infamous
> crash of course) I got a 1:20
> So stick that in your pipe and smoke it old timers ;)
> 
> So how do I do multi-play?
> Please don't tell me Kali.. I don't use credit cards so I don't do
> Kali..
> 
> --
> -Gunslinger-
> gunslinger2@home.com
