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dayte

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Was it me or was that game piss easy to beat? even with all the driver aids turned off?

Jesus, I've said it once I'll say it again, were light years away from that but that's as good as it gets. Though I will go on record as saying that F1 Circus on the megadrive is the most complete F1 game made to date. You'd get fired for shit finishes and crashing.

Driving aids made you way slower, after a while there are shortcuts you recognise that wouldn't make you spin off.

There's a great editor called F1GP-Ed by Oliver Roberts that I paid for (was shareware) all those years ago, I have lost the disk though so it's stuck on a custom loadout with some crazy teams I made up.

And it really is one of the best F1 games of all time - so many little quirks made it worthwhile. The mental crashes, the little red guys pushing you off the track when you retired...

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We could do this one: http://www.fantasyracers.com/

I take part in a league here already, and I think the ntsc-uk guys use the same one. There is a new option this year to have a team which you don't change through the season, but you get more money to start with to compensate for this. Makes it more accessible to those who can't/don't want to update regularly.

I'm deffo up for this. Do we have a rllmuk league to join then? Code please! :P

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Driving aids made you way slower, after a while there are shortcuts you recognise that wouldn't make you spin off.

There's a great editor called F1GP-Ed by Oliver Roberts that I paid for (was shareware) all those years ago, I have lost the disk though so it's stuck on a custom loadout with some crazy teams I made up.

And it really is one of the best F1 games of all time - so many little quirks made it worthwhile. The mental crashes, the little red guys pushing you off the track when you retired...

Agreed, the crashes were amazing. But I think the game was quite balanced in that if you did push just a bit too hard, it'd bite you on the arse. Indy 500 at the time was also notable for the biblical crashes you could cause by driving in reverse. Hell, most car games won't let you do that anymore.

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Is the Guardian's F1 supplement worth popping down to the corner shop for then?

Yes. But if it turns into a mini trek to the high street newsagent because your local only sell the LOOK AT THOSE TITS papers, no.

There are some great quotes from Sutil and Trulli about the tracks... "I don't really like this race as it's very boring to drive." Sutil tells it like it is!

And Trulli re: Singapore... "I don't know why but I just don't like it. It's probably because it is one of those circuits I just can't get right"

i.e. YOU'RE SHIT TRULLI, PURE SHIT.

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From a skim through it does seem pretty good.

There's some weird bits though, like the aforementioned "If this team was an iPhone app" box. Also on Page 6 I have no idea what that box-out "How could McLaren be any more English" is doing there.

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I went for the £40 million fiddle option. It would be folly to change your line-up every race (what with the inevitable qualifying cock-ups, crashes and random penalties), but you often see teams gain or lose momentum as the season wears on and I have taken a bit of a gamble on one driver, which may or may not pay off!

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I love MotoGP because it's one tank of fuel, one set of tyres and the points spread motivates riders to win. I like a bit of overtaking action! So...

Is the general 'muk consensus that the changes to the rules will result in more exciting racing, and should I give it a chance this season?

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I love MotoGP because it's one tank of fuel, one set of tyres and the points spread motivates riders to win. I like a bit of overtaking action! So...

Is the general 'muk consensus that the changes to the rules will result in more exciting racing, and should I give it a chance this season?

Definitely give it a chance. This year should be an absolute classic. I'm not sold on the rule changes yet, not sure they'll make a huge difference but things are moving in the right direction.

A sport so heavily reliant on aero means they'll never be able to run as close as bikes do to each other but ironically there's probably less electronic nannying than in MotoGP so it's entertaining in a different way.

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Welcome one and all to the 2010 F1 world champinship.

The sun is just rising and the air is still fresh with the heady scent of a new world championship popping it’s head up over the horizon. Jean Todt is checking the FIA ban hammer of Doom is nicely polished. Checking the velvet glove that fits over it is as bright red as usual and that the random rule generator is purring. Ready to spring into action at the first sign of trouble the (almost) new FIA guv’ner eases his backside into the seat of power in the Ivory tower and surveys the opening round.

Welcome back all you old hands and welcome all you new bloods. Don’t worry it will all make sense after a few races. The basics rule is to ignore my jaded and ill informed opinion. It’s mostly slanderous and overly jingoistic. But it’s from the heart or more usually the bottom of a bottle of red wine.

We’re starting at The Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir. Designed I’m afraid by Herman Tilke. This means very little over taking, there is zero chance of rain and not much chance of a spectacle. But being the first race of the season it’s always a lottery. New cars, new drivers and new teams this year mean you’re never quite sure what the outcome will be.

Bahrain in the heart of the desert is a circuit that is very dusty. Last year the boys at Brawns won, but only just after amazingly Toyota had locked out the front row of the grid they then tried really really hard to cock it all up. The Brawns were worried about the cooling of their Mercedes engine so couldn’t chase the Toyotas down. Relying on the pit stop to jump Trulli when he stopped to ask for direction, I think, as Vettel cruzed past in his Redbull, laughing all the way to second.

This year sees no refuelling, narrower front tires and adjustable front wings. The conventional thinking is that drivers who are kind to their tires like Button and Alonso, not all hairy scary like Massa and Hamilton, will do a better job. With the dust and high winds of the desert, looking after the tires is going to be at a premium, with enough fuel to run for 49 laps cars will be heavy and slide around.

Winter testing saw Ferrari having problems with the tires losing their edge for 10 laps or so after a few laps off the start line, then they come back into their sweet spot. Once up to temperature they where the class of the field. McLaren meanwhile where better at the beginning, before gradually tailing off. Maybe a shade behind the Ferraris on the longs runs. The Mercedes and Redbulls were having problems getting the tires to be consistent over the long runs. They’re fast, but not as fast as Ferrari and McLaren.

I think you have to look for the winner to come from one of those four teams. Luck and consistency remember, that’s what makes a championship year come together. The team that has the car running sweetly out of the box has a huge advantage. Teams like Mercedes that are bringing lots of aero updates to the first race suggest they don’t have the car sorted yet and are still looking to find a base line to start working from.

Pole will be about being the last driver doing the last lap. All the other will be clearing the sand and dust for the last lap hero. A dream pole would be Schumacher returning after three years. He always was the master of being in the right place at the right time, three years ago. These days Hamilton, Alonso, Webber and Vettel are all great at that Banzi lap.

But last year the no hopers Brawn turned up in Australia and Button, who up to that point had been an also ran for so long, blew everyone away with Pole and the win. Maybe Sauber will be this years Brawns,

they’ve had some fast times on short runs, could they go for glory and get pole. The wins probably a step too far, but didn’t we all think that a year ago ?

My monies on Alonso, i think he's got the edge on Hamilton, maybe Mickey to spring a suprise and pick up a podium. All the usual supect in the top ten, with maybe Hulkenberger and Sutil joining them.

I think Lotus will finish with 1 car, Virgin will retire before half distance and HRT will got home after qualifying after both cars burst into flames and crash in the first corner grandstand.

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