Aaahhh Estoril... one of Fuchs' favorite track. At least on the dry: the race last year didn't end well at all, the car totalled after yet another contact with the AI. Practise races showed me the insane power the AI has, reaching higher top speed in the first lap than I can at the end of the race. To achieve a good pace, Fuchs needs to be on the limit, always. Being cautious only leads to being pushed from behind.
Overtaking is particularly dangerous here as the AI brakes far too early, but accelerate as if on the dry. And multiple contacts showed me the CPU controlled cars do not always rely on physics, the car being set back on the perfect path and ejecting the player.
So, Fuchs need to be aware. Extra aware like JCVD.
I think that like Monza, this race will be more frustration than fun.
Disclaimer: I had to do the race twice: first race ended with a loss of display in dosbox while the game was running 3rd at lap 51, so I had to do it all over again. And so I saved several times during the race, just in case. Hopefully it didn't happen again.
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Full season, hardcode mode: 100% distance race with wheels and pedals, no assist, no restart.
And because my virtual self has a very high esteem of himself, he doesn't want to take part in qualifying, and starts at the back of the grid.
Mod 1992 by Srdjan Kos, forcing wet weather on all races in ArgEditor.
Resources for F1GP: sites.google.com/view/f1gpwc/file-archive
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:14 - Okay... couldn't start worse.
00:09:26 - First good lap
00:18:40 - A bit glued in traffic
00:33:20 - Overtaking Mansell who pitted (with the drag bug)
00:51:55 - Huge mistake. And more while trying to get back in rythm.
01:11:30 - Fuchs has a visual on Senna
01:22:20 - Small mistake and a hard battle taking the lead back
01:41:40 - Chasing and fighting Senna
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F1GP (World Circuit) by Geoff Crammond, Micropose, 1991.