> > Hey Jim, I was watching the Nascar Busch Grand National Race at Watkins
> > Glen, and I was wondering if Sierra perhaps meant for the announcers to
> > slip something in about Nascar2. The announcers were talking about the
> > Dale Earnhardt-owned #3 AC-DELCO car driven by Steve Parks, and they
> > said the way he learned Watkins Glen was through a game called Nascar
> > Two. And they went on and on about him and the game. Was this planned?
> > Ive seen companies pay before to hear announcers use their name on TV,
> > and did you guys?
> That's how Steve learned to drive Dover. I doubt that it was ment to
> be a plug, just telling a story.
> BTW, Jacques Villenueve took the pole at Japan without ever driving the
> track because he had a F1 game.
Speaking of Jacques Villeneuve, he's from Quebec, and the Quebec's
Sports channel ,RDS, showed us how Villeneuve was playing the F1 game.
First of all it's Gp2, not a sophisticated F1 simulator. Second, from
what I remember, he was playing it on a chair that was a sort of
HyperStimulator type of***pit, but not from them. They showed only
about 10 seconds of JV, and after they went to a Gp2 fanatic (yes they
exist) in Quebec. He was playing with a T2 and it was very poor. The
guy had Gp2 in half graphics (no sky, nothing in the mirrors, no
asphalt/grass), and it showed us Gp2 like if it was the game of the
century. sheesh. Btw, Jacques Villeneuve knowed the Suzuka track,
because if you knowed him better before comming to Formula Atlantic and
IndyCar, he was driving in a Japan car series, and he drove in Suzuka.
It was tracks like Spa and Hockenheim that he never went and the Gp2
helped him. Not Suzuka. Also, Patrick Carpentier, the CART driver, took
IndyCar Racing 2 to help him practice on new tracks. It was funny
because at the Surfer's Paradise race, he had some probles with one of
the chicane (the big one at the backstretch). My friend spoken to him
and he said to P.C. that this track in Icr2 was the worst done for
practice. And P.C. responded that even if he thinks that Icr2 is
somethimes harder than the real CART, the chicanes in Icr2 are poorly
done. He said that in the game he touched the wall many times in the
backstrech chicane, and that's why he was affraid of it in the real
race. Thanks a lot,
With great respect,
Good race at the Brickyard, (-o-)
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