Yeah, well sorry for taking a month to put everything together 😛 More time can probably be found but I'm happy to let that be a benchmark for anyone else for now... only real strategy I had for practice laps was I was lifting off the throttle into the corner and like tapping the throttle on and off a few times on corner entry before pressing the button again... idk how to really explain it tho... in hindsight I should have put a controller input up on my recordings, oh well lol Race WR's intrigue me in you could sideswipe a backmarker when overtaking them and get a big speedboost on top of using them for the draft beforehand... basically bumpdrafting in an openwheeler... that seems a good way to go for at least some crazy fastest race lap times, but seems janky as anything to try to execute because half the time it doesn't work... but it's possible to lower the benchmarks even further than what you've already done. I probably am done with this for now other than doing a full 200 lap Indy 500 just to say I've done it, cause 200 laps with damage and AI mobile chicanes seems like a fun way to spend a few hours, right?

@@GTracer01 I've done the sideswipe on some of the backmarkers before and you do seem to get a nice speedboost, sometimes over the highest speed I've gotten with draft, but yeah like you said its very janky and could kill your race if you do it wrong. Another thing I tried out a little bit was starting a little in back of the grid in order to get a starting slingshot from a car in front of you, dont know if i do it in any records tho. In some of the tracks (i forget which) it seems advantageous to start in at least second because you get a better line and a speed boost from the draft. I am also probably done with this game unless some random obsessive compulsion comes over me to beat some times. Might try out some of the other things the game has to offer before letting it collect dust though. I haven't touched any part of the game except the main races, championship, and practice. I didn't even know indy had chicanes, thought it was all left turns (which is dumb now that i think of it cuz i live in one of the street circuits lol)

Thanks 🙂 It wasn't the fastest lap in the hotlap challenge but it was still good fun to drive on. Thank you so, so much for making this track, it was really fun to learn such a small and deceptively tricky circuit that has a lot going on. I do need to find time to enjoy Anglesey, Blandford and Boreham, I have the tracks in my GPL install already, I just need to find a bit of time to go on track and properly experience them all 🙂

Thanks 🙂. I'm surprised it's still #1 on the rankings after all this time. I haven't checked the leaderboards in some time as I don't have a PC capable of playing the game anymore, but it seems that somebody has gotten close now... much like at the TT this year, records are meant to be beaten though 😉 One day I'll get a new PC and revisit this game probably because my 6 lap race effort wasn't recorded, nor was it very clean, as well as trying the newer 3rd game in this series and see what I can do there lol

Not sure, it's still a bit of a weird one. This car in general handles weird over bumps and elevation changes, wing on or off, probably running a more unstable setup to get turn-in probably doesn't help things either. Nobody else seems to really report wild flips out of the blue though Also I think I got back on the wing after I started steering into the turn, so that probably added an extra element of chaos that caused everything to go as crazily as it did 😄

Thanks 🙂 I've updated the video's description with a link to the lp, ini and camera files I did for the track. Credits to the original trackmakers of course for setting everything up originally It's been 7 months since I've driven on the track so not totally sure how well the settings race and what not (I do know I removed short-cut penalty checks from the chicanes on the ini file for the sake of the video incase I locked up)... the races for the AI are somewhat stable... though you can occasionally get some pileups in the opening chicane, especially if someone is also leaving the pits at the same time... part of the fun I suppose😀

​@@GTracer01 wow thanks! And yes i agrer that it certainly is part of the fun for those pileups. Cant wait to see those cars attack those curbs!

Yeah, there was a little bit going on in this lap... Hope you enjoyed the insanity 😀

😄 Hope you enjoyed this little vid too

`TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 1`, from 2018. There's a 2nd and 3rd game in the series now, but I've never actually played them...

After looking it up I think it''s this one? I've had this sound pack for many years now so its hard to keep track of exactly what it was www.mediafire.com/file/2128gyijvijwx18/gen4attemt_MNES.rar

@@GTracer01 Thank you so much bro 🙏

Thanks for watching 😀 33:17 is an amazing laptime for Targa regardless other people's efforts. Anyone doing a lap there deserves credit on having completed such an amazing and difficult track. If that's a good time or not, I don't really know either. My guess at the moment is that the Porsche and Chaparral 2F (the only other 2 Sportscar Extra cars I've driven) are about 45-60 seconds faster than the original version of the mod (I've got a 32:44 in the Porsche and 32:47 in the Chaparral though both can be improved) Over a lap at Targa the Alfa is about as fast as the Porsche (maybe slightly faster?), I guess a 33:17 would be around 34:00 to 34:20 in the original mod, which would put you 3rd, 4th or 5th, which is definitely an amazing effort😀 I guess we have to wait and see... hopefully not too long 😉

Hi Pablo, thanks for the tip 🙂 I didn't realise the 'graphic' updates changed so much with the bumps and track surface, as well as adding extra haybales and painted lines to change track limits at the first turn and the turns near the 'pits'. I did 1 practice run and after 2 laps I already went quicker than this lap (but nowhere near as quick as your own lap though 🙂 )

@GTracer01 Yes, the same thing happened to me haha, but when I made the change I saw the results. It's a bit complicated this track at first, I was quite surprised by Clark's lap time. It demands a bit more from you to reach the reference time. I saw your laps and they are great. Great handling, maybe you use a joystick or some similar device?. I see you have very good results in a short time, that's impressive.

Thanks 🙂 I have a Logitech gamepad I use for driving, 1 joystick for steering, the other joystick for combined throttle and brake. I haven't used a wheel for any games in many years now (all my GPL rank times from 2016 onwards are with a gamepad) so I'm probably faster with a gamepad now anyway I gave myself a goal of spending 30 minutes on each track before moving onto the next one. Vallelunga, Snetterton 1967 (I've driven the 1964 track), Tulln and Hockenheim I'd never driven on at all, so learning the tracks and cars at the same time I was happy enough to be relatively close to you and the other frontrunners in just that time at tracks like Jarama and Vallelunga. I could probably spend more time on the cars to get a bit faster but I'm content with my first run. I prefer closed wheel cars still, the original GT mod (I haven't driven the much faster Sportscar Extra mod beyond a few laps of Targa Florio and the Nurburgring right after the mod was released) and Can Am 1966 I'm a bit more comfortable with driving fast 😉

Thanks for the tips, here I am driving like an idiot with 51% brake bias (gamepad user so no trailing throttle possible) and 21 PSI cold pressure (which I don't think even works out to be 26 PSI hot pressure). I did at least start all these F2 videos with the disclaimer I have no idea what I'm doing in this car at least... I did realise about being able to use a bit more power at the top of the RPM range after I finished the main ranking tracks with a lap around the Isle of Man and starting (and quickly failing one) at the Targa Florio. I could have slightly shorter gearing everywhere and probably gone slightly faster from gearing alone. The worst part about the setup for me at least was the massive understeer on power in higher speed corners, at least when pushing too hard like I was in all these videos. When not at the limit it was quite a balanced car (the TT lap, as different as that track is I admit, the car was beautiful to drive around there even with this exact same setup, probably cause I was driving at 98% instead of 108% 😛) Copying my slightly less terrible Lotus 49 setup with a lot softer springs and rollbars, and an 85/45/1 diff setting I used to be able to drive 7 years ago, and in combination with Pablo's tip about the track changes with the 'graphic' update made my Tulln lap much faster at least, and got pretty close to my fastest time at Vallelunga (where I have had the most practice in these cars) with just a few laps of practice too. Thanks again 🙂

Thanks 👍 Cool rFactor videos you have too 🙂

@@GTracer01 thanks mate C:

I didn't even mean to spin out 😛That was a legit mistake while trying to push for a faster lap, then decided that I'd had enough driving for the night... My 1967 lap ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZrYiWlpebubg9k ) I tried crashing on purpose after the finish but still failed miserably lol

Awesome story, thanks so much for sharing it too 🙂 Papyrus with GP Legends and NASCAR 2003 (and Simbin too, with GTR2 and Race07) was a big part of my teenage years, it's a real shame they're (both) no longer around but their legacies remain and dedicated followings keep the games going.

Also you should do the Indianapolis 500 in this career mode, starting in 2000.

Hey there, thanks for watching 🙂 As for trying a new career mode... I have been testing something for 2001 to get back into racing cause I haven't driven anything in years, but not racing a Cup set (Busch Series again for shorter races and it's got pre-made entry lists for each race which is really cool)... If all goes well they'll eventually get uploaded once I have a few of them in a backlog (I'm still just uploading old stuff currently) (Also I've got a 1995 Truck season I did in 2015 that I'm extremely slowly editing the races together... How that might make sense in any larger 'story' from doing a quarter of the 1994 Cup season, 1995 Trucks, half of 1997 Busch and back to Busch in 2001, I have no idea though :P I just imagine the money ran out each time, and I went back to race in the Australian NASCAR series before that collapsed as there's no carsets in NR2003 to document that😛 If I had the race results from 1994 still I'd probably just finish that season out in all honesty cause it was fun doing that but I'd rather have the full results (cause I did win North Wilkesboro so I got some good points at least)

@@GTracer01 Ah yes AUSCAR, I'm a fellow Aussie as well. Maybe Trucks from 1995-1996 and then move up to the Busch Series from 1997-2001 and then full time in Cup in 2002 and beyond.

Thank you, and thanks for watching 🙂

I needed something slow and easy to drive for the first drive in 2 and a half years, and could do it with 1 arm so anything with throttle/braking modulation was out of the picture... plus a leaderboard to attack... So an afternoon of Cindycars and Crapwagons it was then😛

Looks easy for me too now mate after so long away from it all, I've forgotten how much effort it probably is to do any of this😛 I remember most? of the corners and most? of the reference marks I used for them, but everything else could very well be long gone... the only way to be a big brain simracer is to regularly keep big brain simracing ;)

According to GPLrank (where you can upload and log your times in the game), yes, it's the overall WR time around the track. (A total of 48 people have a lap recorded, 6 in the 1971 Can-Am cars that typically are the fastest cars).

Glad you enjoyed :) For an even more blistering lap, linked is a lap I did about 2 months after I did this lap, it's 27 seconds faster kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmSqqYOanripgZI

Lol, I can assure you with confidence my pants were clean before, and after that lap :) It doesn't feel out of control fast when you're in the zone doing the lap, but you still gotta hang on tight as with any Can-Am 71 car of course, especially on a track as fast as this. But the faster the track the better I say ;) However I probably would frighten myself (and also be 2 minutes slower) if I tried the lap right now as I haven't turned a racing lap in any game in over a month now, gone a bit soft in driving fast lately...

Thanks for watching :) GPL is the game that keeps on giving and 21 years after release is still just as amazing to play as the first time going out on track. It was the 2nd attempt in the Can-Am 1971 cars and 4th full lap completed across all carsets, the first Can-Am attempt the game crashed at the Casey's/Black Hut region on the Mountain between the 29th and 30th Milestones, but this lap everything went just right :)

First full lap (probably quickly noted somewhere in the description probably), unfinished attempts never count :P This was the 2nd attempt and 3rd time attempting a lap in general , the first time the game crashed, the 2nd was the first time in a GP car in probably over a year and felt it was a bit slow and a handful and after a slide at Doran's, tweaked it up and gave it a 3rd attempt which was this... just turned around and made my own return lane down the pits and gave myself a flying start to experience Bray/Ago's and the run to Quarterbridge in full glory/terror, which it was quite something at full speed :o

So I could reproduce this, but only at the highest wing setting of 12° (Mind you, with cold tires). Interesting effect, this. I wonder if the real Chaparral 2F would have done the same thing in the exact same circumstance.

​@@BrotherSimpson The wing is setup at its maximum angle of 12 degrees, and would have been in downforce-mode (don't have quite enough fingers+mobility to steer well on my left joystick and keep the button pushed for the low wing angle). Cold tyre pressures start at 180 kPa fronts and 172 kPa rears but they were quite warm by this point with 3 hard-pushing laps on them by then. Rest of the setup wasn't too far from the defaults either, just a tad more aggressive really... You'd like to think the real life equivalent wasn't capable of such things certainly, and while I've only driven the 1971 Can-Am cars and the Chaparral 2E from the Can-Am 1966 mod, and the original 2F from the 1st Sportscar mod for other downforce beasts in GPL, none of those have ever quite acted that way either, and if they or the 1969 Grand Prix cars did one probably would have heard about it by now :P Very interesting and strange indeed, especially considering I've done a couple other laps at that speed, and even my 7:51 lap video think I was a tad faster even, none of them blew other either... Probably just one of those strange things at the end of the day

I've certainly never seen it before either in any game, or at least in any game in how it's supposed to be played, have seen similar things in NASCAR Racing 2003 and GTR2 by fooling around and increasing track grip to a ridiculously high number in the former and putting a 10000HP engine in a car in the latter... but yeah to get it in a vanilla or uncustomised game/mod, it's rather odd yeah... shows how well built GPL as a game really was if it takes 21 years and a bunch of mods before something genuinely odd happens with no warning or explanation

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the lap.