F1 2011 Archive

Drivers Profile
Where do you live?
Germany. Near Frankfurt am Main.


Working or studying?
Studying computer sciences.

Number of years playing racing games?
Starting with F1 1997 for the N64 lol. I guess about 10 years.

What other race sims do you play now?
Not competetive but I have rFactor, Forza 2,3, Dirt 2,3.


Type of wheel or controller?
Controller.


Down force High or Low?
High.
I like to concentrate on the exit speed from corners, not the entry.


Wet races good or bad?
Bad. I like my tyre strategy.


Favourite Team/Driver/s?
Team + Drivers: Sauber. Good drivers, nice car and actually a good team for once.
Otherwise: Button, Alonso, Rosberg, Perez. No real order.
No team I particularily favor. All depends on the drivers.


Favourite F1 track/s
In game: Malaysia, Nürburgring.
I like Catalunya as well just for the layout. Minus the "new" chicane.
RL: Spa - produces great races every year.


This season’s goal?
To get the most out of the car and have fun.

Other Hobbies/interests?
Chess, Go, Card games (Yugioh, WoW) Strategy games in general.
Minecraft.
OTTD.
Sometimes Anime/Manga.


Meat or Veg?
Well, both.


Red Wine/White Wine or Beer?
Non-alcoholic. Water.

Gym or Couch?
Couch.

Worlds sexiest woman (or man) is?
Yuu Kobayashi (she has a great voice).

Do you have a real world car/license?
Yes to both. An old Mercedes..

Anything else you want us to know?
Prost > Senna.
Also, kick Monaco from the calendar please.

Well theres going to be a patch very soon for F1 2011. Hopefully it gets rid of that grip glitch.

Haven't even thought about this co-op stuff yet!! Not even looked at what it involves really.... how you gonna fit it all in lol.

yh hopefully and prety soon

i know, did a sprint race last night round Melbourne, came 5th after the standard spin round the first corner due to some boneheads who dont know racing. but first place was throwing in 1:19s laps.. everybody else was 4 seconds slower.


hopefully it will be fixed like you say

I doubt I'll take part in any online stuff outside of our get-togethers. I trust all of our guys to do the honourable thing and not use this 'feature' but sprint races will most likely have people that don't really care about such things. My experience of sprint races was that too many of them end up as stock car races lol

Can you believe that I actually had a dream last night about F1 2011.... and that when I went into the setup screen the spring rate section had been disabled by CM to stop people using the 11/11 setup. I need to get out more

Listen to my voice, you are feeling sleepy, your eyelids are getting heavy, you will not use 11/11 springs, you will get out more...WAKE UP PETER! lol

LOL, not good Peter.. not good! lol

maybe we need to impose a rule for the league as to what can be used.. I've never had it above 8, i did try it on 11/11 to see how bad it was around Brazil in GP mode.. and it is a massive difference..

Think i need to set the A.I to Legend on my career, started season 2 in the williams, and got pole at Melbourne by half a second, i only use auto gears!! although the race is heavy rain so i dont think that i will be having much fun there tonight!

i've just won my first championship in career with williams on legend, next season is all gonna be about no assists. don't like wet races atm though very unpredictable, i guess this can be solved through extensive setup work..

DAMN!! Who woke me up.. I was just having this great dream where I was racing around Turkey and was just about to lap Karl when you lot woke me up :tongue:

Richard, stop it.. I am feeling knackered enough, i'm at work so can't play the game but I can at least get on here and chat about it

Blimey Ryan.. season 2 already.. haven't even started Season 1 yet!! How do you get so much time on the game.

Enjoyed the race yesterday both as a competitor (but not for very long lol) and then as a spectator. Managed to get a good spell of watching most of you… nice driving Ryan, you were showing good pace there mate. David, I was on board with you as you were catching and overtaking Heidfeld… good to see the AI making a mistake.. he was on your tail after you went past but ran wide on the exit of the last turn. I was actually impressed with the AI.. while I was running I had some close battles with a few of them and I think it was Gavin who I was watching at one point have a good ol' tussle trying to get past Barrichello, he didn;t make it easy did he?. They are much improved from 2010.

I actually attached a PVR through my Xbox last night to try to record some of the action but I could only get it working in black and white… tried everything I could but nothing would enable me to get it working in colour. Any video guru's amongst you have any clues what it could be? The device was connected up via the component (red, yellow, white) cables. I did record portions of the qualifying and race which looks good despite the lack of colour. Hoping I can get it sorted out though as it would be good to have to be able to learn a few things from you quick guys

Yeah, only did 20% races and short weekends for the first season as i just wanted to see the tracks quick.. now doing 50% and full race weekends so its going to slow right up, instead of doing 3-4 a night il be lucky to do 2!!

think what has helped me greatly in getting used to this was that i did a season in the Lotus (the bottom 3 cars are an absolute pig to drive!!) now in season 2 in the williams after a contract offer from Sir Frank and everything is just so much better, and online with equal car setting its just like a dream compared to the bottom 3 cars.. can't recomend going through a season at least with the slow teams enough.. probably gives your experience points a good boost if you do something good also i imagine ;o)

Looking forward to the race tomorrow night

Thanks Pete, feels strange now actually thinking you were watching the race! figured out pretty much where i feel best to use the KERS with my setup, so feeling very comfortable at that track now, couldn't believe you could go through turn 8 full throttle.. i have had absolutely no chance in the lotus in career mode, it ended with a 720 degree spin i think lol!

did you have trouble with connection, or did you crash out?

might be worth getting your model number of your device, and putting it in a search engine with your issue,something usually comes up in some forum or other.. Worked in I.T. briefly, google was a life saver!!! lol

It is really interesting watching the race from each drivers perspective. Just a shame we don't get the cockpit view and also the lap info on screen in spectator mode.

I crashed out... lost the back end on the exit of the second last apex of turn 8 and went head first into the wall.. Still trying to get out of the habit of hitting the brakes when that happens.... wasn't that big of an impact but ende my race. I was a bit miffed initially but I had actually thought about jumping into spectator mode anyway at some point just t check it out so it just brought it forward for me.

Cheers, will see what I can find.

yes, i've done that a few times!!! lol

shame about you possibly not being able to make tomorrow, i know Turkey is a favourite of yours!

Pretty gutted.. just have to see how it goes and . Yeah I love Turkey. probably my favourite track. It's certainly a different beast with the new game though... turn 8 especially.

dunno?!?!? lol

Is there a race tomorrow?

Yeah a 50% quali + Race (Pro-am), have you registerd Marcel? its @ 9pm GMT (dont know what time that is for you sorry). if you haven't registered it might be full now, but if you are online around the time, there is a chance you could get a race as a reserve or something.

Yep srry , found it.

Its an hour later here in dutchiesland , we live in the future :tongue: