On The Brink (R16: JPN - Formula 1 97) 

Thank you very much mate, very kind of you, I really appreciate it. Very glad to have you on board! 🙏🏼 (still annoyed I botched Spoon like five times 😥)

@@TheOutsideLine Such is knife. You will nail Spoon sooner or plater.

The best punner in my comments section hands down. 😂

Ah fair enough, I'd not clocked that at all. A clever move to appeal then so he could at least try to run some interference even if he knew he'd get DQ'd. I mean, it didn't work, but still. 😅 To be fair, this is before the days they got the Ferrari International Assistance nickname. 😂

IIRC that was San Marino going by a season review I was watching earlier on, it specifically said both williams cars had not slowed down, not just Jacques though so I'm needing to check if HHF only had that one time or notr

Or maybe Jacques had done it a third time elsewhere, so Suzuka was the third strike for him?

Found the writeup online, here's the important bits: In free practice on Saturday morning at Suzuka, however, Jacques fell foul of the FIA stewards by ignoring a waved yellow flag on two consecutive laps. This is his fourth such incident this year and at Monza the stewards gave him a one-race ban, suspended for eight races. If he committed another yellow flag offense he would be excluded from one event. The problems began when Jos Verstappen's Tyrrell ran out of fuel and stopped just after Spoon Curve. The Dutchman drove onto the strip of grass on the left of the track and climbed out. As the cars are traveling very fast at that point it was decided that the car had to be moved. A marshal climbed in while others pushed. The man steering was obviously a little over-excited and somehow managed to steer into the barrier in such a way that the car could not be moved by hand. While all this was going on there was a stationary yellow flag. A caterpillar tractor was sent in to drag the car out of the way and so a stationary white flag was shown to indicate that there was a service vehicle present. When the Tyrrell was attached to the caterpillar the racing car snagged the barrier again and as it was pulled backwards it swung round and the tail end of the car ended up on the race track. The marshals had to come on to the track to try to sort this out and so yellow flags were waved. Villeneuve passed these flags twice and on each consecutive lap he set his fastest sector time of the session. Jacques was not the only offender - Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Johnny Herbert, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher and Ukyo Katayama were all sanctioned for ignoring the flag but as Villeneuve was under a suspended ban he had no real defense and was duly excluded from the event. The Williams team had the right to appeal and chose to do so.

Well, that's pretty slam dunk. His FOURTH incident, and he ignored them on two consecutive laps. Jesus Jacques you made 97 way closer than it ever needed to be. 😂

Good to see you in the comments again! Yeah, I hope I can beat this game before I've done half the grid, let alone all of it 😂

You're probably going to have to pick either Irvine or Frentzen in the future or with enough time it may end up as Justice for Ukyo Katayama, which could be intersting, although not as interesting as any F1 98 playthrough.

If push comes to shove and I can't do it with any other half-decent team, I would absolutely go for Frentzen. Although I too have a soft spot for Ukyo Katayama. 😅

Murray always had a way with words and picking the right moment to say them! Or even the perfect wrong moment. 😂 Oh absolutely, there's still a couple of goals I have in mind to round out the season, and we can finish with a flourish!

Considering what Piquet's like these days, I don't particularly care what he thinks of that analogy either! 😂

The last time both of these would appear too! I also like them, we can finish strong.

He sounds otherwise perfectly sane before you ask.

Chin up 🎉, if not mistakes in Spoon corner (you imitated Hill 1995) you wouldn't beat Ferraris because to get in their dirty air would mess up your line anyway and this game has that thing I noticed, with slipstream. So can we talk about that perfect qualify lap💯? That was insane

@@trnskot3357 And he deserved better after that qualifying lap, really. I was surprised he was only in third 😐

CM91 may sound perfectly sane, but based on what you've just told me, is he... really? 😂 I can't believe I kept botching Spoon in the race, just silly stuff from me there. But yeah very happy with the quali lap, thanks both. I think I still could've been quicker through sector 1, especially the Esses and Degner 2

@TheOutsideLine You kept getting forked by Spoon. That is true.

Thought this would be the one, but there we are. We'll be back for more. Thanks - I was very happy with the lap, just need to find some better race pace. That is very tempting as Berger has had some donkey moments with us this season. 😅

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it! I haven't played F1 World Grand Prix as I've sadly never owned an N64. But I should see if I can get an emulator to run it to give it a try. I also have the PS1 port of F1 World Grand Prix... it was not a good port. 😂

You're right there, Murray!

I hope so! I thought this was the one! 😢

In real life, absolutely not. In this... there was a moment where I believed 😅

He's in contention. I think next attempt will either be with a McLaren or a Jordan. And if I go McLaren, Hakkinen gets two titles anyway so I think he's got justice enough, so it would be DC.

@@TheOutsideLine I'd be up for Justice for Fisichella. Ralf deserves no justice.

I feel much the same! Especially seen as Ralf is the only teammate Fisi didn't gel with because he was seemingly a bit of a tool.

Yeah, similar to Austria the Ferraris were just too good. Gonna need to be better, but also a bit of luck to beat it I think!

Hey, thanks for the tip! I haven't heard of this one and I'm always up for trying games I've missed from this era, so I'll see if I can find a copy!

Engagement Gods be like "another one" 😂

@@TheOutsideLine My internet's been kinda sus for the past weeks. I guess everytime I send a comment RU-vid is like "That one might not have been sent. REPEAT FIRE". Which, you know, I approve.

As do I! 😅

Friend of the channel Josh has similarly said that he's never been able work out how to get a good start in all these years, so I take some solace that it's not just me. But as you say, there has to be a way!

Bounce the revs high until a fraction of a second before the lights go off and hammer it. You either hold your position or lose just one. Gaining on the start is hard unless your grid position is lower than it should be.

@@stevezeoke I used to try to Mario Kart it, i.e. have the revs approaching the sweet spot just as the lights go out by pressing the accelerator at the right moment. I think I did it properly once out a thousand tries. I held my spot, only to make a hames of the first corner, somewhat out of excitement at starting decently.

I will attempt this method next time out. I'll settle for holding position if possible. Much better than what I have been doing! 😂

If that's a suggestion for F1 97 attempt numero 3, as much as I like Damon and his underdog Arrows season, if I can't beat this game in a Benetton or Prost, the Arrows won't work for me either! 😂

@@TheOutsideLine f1 damon hill 1997 challenge?

We'll see if it comes to that. 😂

Do you know how to start properly?? Pleeeeeease tell us more :-)

Yeah someone else also pointed out the thing about Jim Vanteeve - completely missed that! The 97 season review doesn't even reiterate that from what I remember. However I do love Newhouse's half-hearted excuse of, "well when you're on the straight there's basically no point slowing down at that point"... my guy that is not how yellow flags work, no wonder you got banned. 😂 Yes, please talk me through a good F1 97 start procedure because it is KILLING ME! 😂 The overdriving is the bit that ruined me most though - if get by NUMBERONE earlier there's still more of a chance to get on the Ferraris. As much of a drop in quality the gameplay of 98 may be, I think it's going to end up being a fun season, or at least a mad one!

@@TheOutsideLine I mean, we are still going to be watching F1 98 so ... at the very least you will not be alone in this madness. I don't really know how to get super elite Irvine-esque starts in this game. My personnal way of doing it, putting it in a very Kimi Raikkonen way, is: "I don't know, I just hold the throttle", which is why me seeing the revs go low and you effectively being off throttle at the start made me go into Panic Station.

Your company in insanity will be much appreciated! 🙏🏼 I've had another comment that has a more detailed method but essentially results in being on the revs at lights out, so will make sure that's at least the minimum from now on.