An old Newbie here who sadly is nearer 60 than 50 years old has just rediscovered GPL after a good few years away and wanted to say Hi. I originally bought GPL back in the days of P133mhz systems and started out with just a keyboard for control. (Believe me I do not recommend this approach ). Several PC changes later and GPL has been dipped into on and off for the last 15 years but always got reinstalled with each new PC and then the addons migrated across. I've always been a fan of simulations rather than "games" and along with GTR (My system struggles with GTR2) and Nascar 2002 racing season I have never found any other driving sim which comes close to the Exhilaration I get from GPL. I have to say I was amazed (And very happy/stunned) that it still has such a loyal following. Some of the tracks and alternative mods push the boundaries far beyond anything ever envisaged by Papyrus. I bow down to your achievments.

My system is a bit of a dinosaur (AMD Athlon XP2600, Geforce FX5700VE, 2gb Ram, XP SP3) but seems to run GPL with few issues other than the slideshow on the start line at a few tracks.

The last few weeks has been spent wildy downloading all the mods I was not aware of and reminding myself that you can't plant your right foot into the carpet and expect to still be facing the right direction. I don't know if I'll ever venture online as "Just off the podium" seems to be my standard offline at the tracks I've bothered to actually learn so far. (Is there a crappy drivers online league where the odd indiscretion is acceptable)?

At this point I would like to express my thanks to all the people who have submitted set up files for the various tracks. (I knocked 5 seconds of my best Monza time just by finding someone who apparently drives like I do). As a newbie I'll say this to anyone stumbling across GPL for the 1st time. "Go and get some set up files for your weapon/Track of choice" I was amazed and how it transformed my GPL experience.

So far my favourite mod is the 65 season that's not to in any way meant to diminish the respect for the other mods, I just clicked at the 1st drive with the 65 mod.

Anyway, I'm starting to ramble now. (A very nice Scotch probably has a lot to do with it). So I just wanted to say sincere thanks to everyone who has continued to keep GPL alive and reminding me that in these days of PC eye candy it's the gameplay which is really king and GPL is still up there with the best of them.

TTFN
John.

ps I may be back to correct any spelling erros as Lagavulin while imparting a feeling of well being does nothing for my spelling prowess.

I have this problem with rouen. I do not know why.

I was just looking at the results from 1967 gold cup. And it seems that there was a lot of entries with cosworth power. There was even matra. And some roy winkelman cosworth powered brabhams. Now that is really strange knowing that lots had exclusive rights to use cosworth during 1967 season. Or was it that oulton was excluded from that ban since it was non championship race

Or were all those cars infact F2 cosworths

http://en.wikipedia....tional_Gold_Cup

it is very strange

and if matra was infact F2 car, how did it manage to finish just 0.5 of a second behind hill's lotus -that I suppose was F1. Or were they all F2. I wouldnt say that. maybe.

Also assuming they were F1, how the teams managed to prepare all those cosworth vehicles in such a short notice -and that only for a non championship race

When driving original lotus49 at monza, I am experiencing unusuall problem. When I approach Lesmo 1 it wont downshift.  It happens only in front of that corner and in once-twice out of 10 times. It is strange and annoying

The beginning.