F1 20xx - The Game Leagues (Archive)

[Bram Hengeveld]

Game: F1 2010 - The Game by Codemasters. Click here to buy it directly from Steam
Class: Formula 1
Track: Various Tracks (Ralf Eiden Style = random selection)
Weather: Dry
Opens: 19:00 GMT
Ends: Do we?
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[Ermanno Carofiglio]

Anyway ,my race I had a nice quali on wet tyres,but I'm wondering If zomacher did his last qualy laps with prime tyres or somthing else.But still I qualified second.
Race:So I can read zomacher mad a mistake to go with intermediates.I think Its better not to use no intermediates at all In this game.
Because even with a little rain wet tyres go beter,and when Its stopping to rain the track get pretty fast dry enough to take primes or options tyres.
So my race was between me and bend.We had same race speed,I think I was a littlebit faster but I didnt wanted to pass him or trying to push hard to pass him,because I wanted to see what his tactic was,so at some point when I felt the track was getting dryer I let him pass me first so I could see If he would pit or not,so when he didnt pit,then It was my moment to pit and I took primes,1 lap later he pitted aswell and I won like 9 sec when he came out of the pit.
was like 8 or 9 laps to go and I didnt let him come closer again.
So my strategy worked abit out.

Next week monaco,Im not sure If Im going to race this one,I dont know how but this track makes me sick and I mean real sick "dizzy in my head ,and my eyes hurt aswell there"
Lets see how It goes.

ps dont quit anyone,even message to greawullf ,come race again with us,because Its fun racing with you.

 

[Kyle Dunning]

German Grand Prix - Hockenheim

In the early 2000s, F1 officials demanded the 6.8 km (4.2 mi) track be shortened and threatened to discontinue racing there, due to competition from other tracks such as the EuroSpeedway Lausitz and sites in Asia. The state government of Baden-Württemberg secured the financing for the redesign by Hermann Tilke for the 2002 German Grand Prix. The stadium section remained mostly intact, despite a new surface and a tighter Turn 1 ("Nordkurve"). However, the circuit was dramatically shortened, with the long, forest straights section chopped off in favour of more tight corners. In an extremely controversial move, the old forest section was torn up and replanted with trees, eliminating any chance of using the old course either for future F1 events or for historic car events. There was and still remains a great deal of criticism of the track redesign, in terms of ruining the previous unique technical challenges of the old Hockenheim circuit and delivering a new homogenised 'assembly line' circuit without the character of the previous layout, whilst being beset by the perceived problems of other Tilke circuits.[1] Several drivers and team principals, including Ron Dennis, Jarno Trulli and Juan Pablo Montoya criticised the changes and stated their preference for the old circuit.[2] - Wiki

This track is pretty short, therefore you can be looking at doing laptimes almost as quick as Monaco, there are 13 corners here.

Good points

- The track seems pretty flat, also most curbs are not too difficult to drive over.
- There are not many areas where walls can come into play and damage your car

Bad Points

- Plenty of sand traps around this circuit, if you get it wrong.
- Not many overtaking places, only place i can think of is at the end of the long straight
- The last sector is tricky, the road becomes really thin, it is almost impossible to overtake anyone through there, or even let them through as a backmarker.

Corners

Nordkurve (1) - Not a difficult corner, however it is easy to become complacent and either cut the track, or run wide, you should be going through here full throttle.

Turn 2 - Braking from gear 7, this corner always causes trouble, it can be an overtaking place, it is imperative you get this right though or you will lose a lot of time for what is to come.

Turn 3 - Not a difficult corner, full throttle through here to end sector 1 and begin your run down the Parabolika

Hairpin (4) - Definitely the overtaking place on the track, also this is the slowest corner on the track, it is very easy to end up running into the back of someone, or running wide on the exit, you will lose a ton of time if you get this wrong as there is another speedy section to follow.

Turn 5 - This is like turn 3, full throttle, if you get it wrong here, just go home

Turn 6 - Tricky technical corner, some players attempt to overtake into here and more often then not it will end in failure for both drivers, the inside curb can sometimes catch you out so be weary of it, if you run wide, there is a small run off area but once again you may end up spinning on the outside curb, this one can definitely kill your laptime.

Turn 7 - You should be getting as wide to the left after turn 6 to enter through this at full throttle, if your having to brake for this your doing it all wrong, this is probably my favourite corner of the track, not sure why

Mobil 1 (8) - I do not like this corner, for one huge reason, if you get it wrong there is a sand trap the size of an ocean, also if you get on the curb wrong you might spin off to the wall on the right hand side, absolute precision and courage is needed if you want to get this correct every time.

Sachs (9) - This corner is probably my fave slow speed corner, it is not too difficult, you got to get this correct though or you will end up on the grass or having a hard time through the final part of this lap.

10 & 11 - Should definitely be full throttle through both of these, it is a technical part of the circuit, it is absolutely impossible to overtake anyone through these last corners, even backmarkers should not try to slow down through here, wait for the start-finish straight!

12 - Get on the left hand side and sweep in, you may need to break just a little, be prepared to hit a sand trap if you fail through here.

13 - The last corner separates good drivers from bad drivers, at low fuel you should be pretty much going full throttle, and attacking the hell out of it and planting the car on the curb on the left hand side of the straight, if you find yourself braking heavily just to get round here, you need some more practice

 

[Michal Sochan]

Third place, the best so far But I'm not happy at all. I was hoping it will be very interesting race with more then four players...

VIDEO
First ten laps: http://youtu.be/eABrj2dOxXI
Last few laps: http://youtu.be/jvDKsIA8DmI

 

[David Ross]

i must admit that a merger would be a good idea, at the moment Darco is way faster than i am, the only time i've been any where near challenging him is during a wet race. I personally would rather have a good race for a few points than a boring time touring round for second or third place.

The only issue with a merger of groups 3 and 4 would be all the extra work for Christian, i think he's got a lot to do already.

 

[Piet Dekimpe]

It was because i was starting up teamspeak that my pc froze up....
Yeah i know my mistake.... I said i couldn't make it but i made it in the end
Was online just in time, but then had to restart the pc.... I can see this is logicall that i will not come back after one minute? Not.... If i cant make it i wouldn't have been online the first time don't you think? well you guys have a good season , was loking forward to monaco but hell on sunday it is even more nice racing and we always wait five minutes........I remember even waiting 10 minutes for some guy

 

[Ermanno Carofiglio]

Come to group 2 piet ,We wait the whole day for you If we must

 

[James Robertson]

Heres my edited highlights.

 

[Andrew Bortz]

It was because i was starting up teamspeak that my pc froze up....
Yeah i know my mistake.... I said i couldn't make it but i made it in the end
Was online just in time, but then had to restart the pc.... I can see this is logicall that i will not come back after one minute? Not.... If i cant make it i wouldn't have been online the first time don't you think? well you guys have a good season , was loking forward to monaco but hell on sunday it is even more nice racing and we always wait five minutes........I remember even waiting 10 minutes for some guy

Pietro as I stated before when you went offline it just made sense that you would be dissapearing off to do something else hence the post in the forums saying you wouldn't make it, as for quitting thats your decision all I can ask you is not to, anyway since the 5 race drop rule is there yes you may have used one of them but theres no real reason to quit over something that I cannot be blamed for.

Theres nothing in the rules that say we wait 5 mins after 20:00 otherwise we would have stated the start time as 20:05, but we did mention to be there 10-15 minutes before race start.

 

[Justin Webley]

This is going to be a good race, see you all on the track!

 

[Piet Dekimpe]

yeah well... 5 minutes is not that a long time to wait.... next time if you lose connection or if your pc freezes with GWFL ( which occasionaly happens) I suppose you will miss the race also?
Anyway was a bit pissed off.... spend the whole saturday at the sea with very nice weather, convinced my wife to come home for the race against her will and then had no time to worn you guys and was unlucky to get stuck after my first invite of the race.....so my wife not very happy we came home early for nothing....
Still pissed off this morning but yeah what can i do.....

 

[Scott Webber]

well im hoping this race can make up for the league race last night, i missed a gear on the last lap spun my car & totalled it ....i hope i don't have the same fate in this one .... Best of luck all.

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

26th..... Hmmm... I will be working late, so have to pass this one, sorry guys. Have a good one!

 

[Bill Devery]

This is going to be a good race, see you all on the track!

Yeah i cant wait. Could be a classic.
C u all on track

 

[Juul Knoops]

The last three races I unfortunately can not participate.
I try to race again in Monaco

 

[Scott Webber]

Michal you are revving way to much, as soon as the limiter turns red change gears..... it was nice to see it from another view

 

[Andrew Bortz]

yeah well... 5 minutes is not that a long time to wait.... next time if you lose connection or if your pc freezes with GWFL ( which occasionaly happens) I suppose you will miss the race also?
Anyway was a bit pissed off.... spend the whole saturday at the sea with very nice weather, convinced my wife to come home for the race against her will and then had no time to worn you guys and was unlucky to get stuck after my first invite of the race.....so my wife not very happy we came home early for nothing....
Still pissed off this morning but yeah what can i do.....

Well all I can say is sorry and ask you not to quit, weve already lost Tamas pretty much for sure as last time it took me an age to get him back and im not willing to go chasing after him again.

He is still welcome here but he needs to be less hot headed when things dont always go his way.

I just read a post saying about when I was late, Isnt that the same race that I had warned everyone that I would be cutting it very close to start time and at the time I think Steve Stoops would of been the reserve host except he wasnt there for the race anyway, sure you guys could of started with another host and yeah I probably would of been a little miffed but I did give heads up that I would basically be online when the race was meant to start.

Just gonna start watching the videos posted cant wait to see the action.

 

[Michal Sochan]

Michal you are revving way to much, as soon as the limiter turns red change gears.....

I use the automatic gearbox. I hope to change it yet this season.

 

[Dan Holland]

You were unlucky Michal - you were doing a good job of keeping me behind you as I just couldn't find anywhere that I thought I'd have a good chance of getting past you without causing an incident. Then you late braked yourself into 9

If it wasn't for that I think I would have been following you around until you went in for your fresh tires. Noticed you did exactly the same thing with Derek!

 

[Tracy Booth]

Well if a merger were to happen for me it means two things....1. More blue flags.............and the most important one !!!!!.....2. My current car and team....Red Bull........if a merger happens.....do I lose that.......I hope not .....I have put a lot of...blood...sweat... and tears... into this team... even though the team only gives me the used parts off of Freddy's car !!!..... I would have a real hard time moving to another team.

 

[Piet Dekimpe]

I will have my revenge at monaco......dreaming of it off course.... probably will end up in midfield again....
So not resigning the league....not gonna give up now, all my bad tracks have past now....will give it another go.....hoping tamas will rejoin aswell......