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http://www.racesimcentral.net/

At first blush, it looks *very* professionally done....

Still waiting for someone to do Central Park and Schenley Park for
GPL. =/

Jason

I'm still waiting/hoping for the Isle Of Man.

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Don Scurlock
Vancouver,B.C.

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Hey cool, Now I can practice before going there for the open track events.
Thanks!

Andy

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The Targa Florio wasn't a track it was the event(Florio's Shield). The
"track"(it was just 70-something km of sicilian public road obviously)
they ran it on last was called Piccolo Madonie.

The Mille Miglia was run from Brescia to Rome and back, I don't know
if you can call that a track or circuit exactly, you only run it once
in each direction. ;)

I also don't know if you can call either events "races" as such
either, the events had more in common with rallying than racing, but
with sportscars. In the Mille Miglia the cars were sent away with 10
minutes intervals, IIRC. In the Targa Florio they were 30 seconds(?)
or a minute(?) intervals between the cars.

"Magnus Svensson"
   Thanks for the info Magnus

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Most early European racing was on public roads.  In America, where we had a
less suitable network of public roads, we tended to race our cars first on
horse-racing ovals and later purpose-built ovals (initially wooden board
tracks and later paved banked ovals), until they emerged into the unnatrual
monstrosities (e.g., Talladega) they are today.  In Europe, the Nurburgring
was the first great natural-terrain road circuit, but as the Safety Police
gained the upper hand, real tracks became increasingly miniaturized until
they emerged into the unnatural monstrosities (e.g., the *new* Nurburgring)
they are today.

BTW, the Mille Miglia wasn't run in two different directions on the same
stretch of roads; they went down the spine of the Italian peninsula from
Brescia to Rome; the return trip was made along the Adriatic.  And they were
flagged off at one-minute intervals (the numbers on the sides of the car
denoted their starting times), slowest cars first.

--Steve Smith

Ouch! I'm owned as I expected... :)

Well of course, but I thought it was extremely rudimentary compared to
those, and _extremely_ long at that, certainly the preceding Madonies
even moreso. I don't know, but somewhere it ceases to be a "track"
when it passes a certain length and just becomes a rally stage that
you run over and over(especially when there's no racing for position).
There's just no way you could remember all the circuit and get any
sort consistency that I think is significative for "regular"
roadracing. To me, that is. :-) Not exactly stringent I'll admit
readily!

The Isle of Man actually falls in the same category as the Targa for
me. Rallying with bikes. :)

Duly noted, my fault.

http://www.jrpearson.homestead.com/IsleOfMan.html

Peter

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:55:31 GMT, Don Scurlock

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