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> > GPL stands for Grand Prix Legends.  Grand Prix is a completely different
> > sport than LeMans.  Completely different cars and drivers.  LeMans is a
> race
> > that takes place in France and last for 24 hours.  Grand Prix Legends is
> > based on Formula 1 races during the 1967 season.

> > > I was on www.theuspits.com and saw that they posted pole
> > > and race times for Le Mans for the 1967 season? Why was
> > > then Le Mans ommitted from the game. Or was GPL really
> > > based on the 1966 seazon?

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> > Doug, he's referring to the Le Mans - Bugatti circuit, on which the 1967
F1
> > race was held.

> Boy, has this Bugatti circuit taken Pepper! :-)
> To all of you; it is just as "boring" as 95% of the tracks on todays F1
> circuit.......

> But it does have lots of overtaking spots, and the soul who can come up to
me
> and call the righthander after the pit straight boring, with or without
> chicane, is a raving lunatic! :-D

> Erm,...IMO!

> Matt

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> >LeMans is in there because the French round of the 67 WC was there... not on
> >the Sports car circuit, but a different one that apparently was lame. The
> >track wasn't included in GPL because of this lameness, so a real French
> >circuit (Rouen) was substituted. They raced at Rouen before and after 67.

> >--Dave

> When was Magny Cours built?  That would be fun in a 67 Ferarri...

> > Matt...transfer yourself back to the 1960s.  You are a F1 racing driver who
> > has raced on the "cream" of European and North American circuits.  You are
> > informed that the next French GP will be held on the "Bugatti" circuit at Le
> > Mans....part of which traverses a car park (remember....this is years before
> > Caesar's Palace!).

> Yeah, I'm with you Bruce :-)
> My point was/is, I think it's more likely that it was a licensing issue. The 67
> Silverstone isn't
> particularly interesting/extreme IMO....Papy would have done Brands :-)
> But it is one of my favourite circuits for *racing*!

> Matt

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> > lol um....... wrong! the Le Mans track was used in an F1 race in 1967,
> > Papyrus replaced it with Rouen (which was 1966 and 1968 race location)
> > because Le Mans was considered boring (tsk.)

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> > > GPL stands for Grand Prix Legends.  Grand Prix is a completely
different
> > > sport than LeMans.  Completely different cars and drivers.  LeMans is
a
> > race
> > > that takes place in France and last for 24 hours.  Grand Prix Legends
is
> > > based on Formula 1 races during the 1967 season.

> > > > I was on www.theuspits.com and saw that they posted pole
> > > > and race times for Le Mans for the 1967 season? Why was
> > > > then Le Mans ommitted from the game. Or was GPL really
> > > > based on the 1966 seazon?

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> >Yes, maybe it's simply just a licensing problem! At the time GPL was in
> >development, Electronic Arts secured the rights on Le Mans for doing
> >a 24h simulation called "Porsche at Le Mans"! That project died, but
> >nevertheless the licensing might have been *exclusive*.

>         Actually (and this is information I got from then-EAC
> president Don Mattrick), the project was to have been "McLaren at Le
> Mans".  I actually remember a flyer in the box of NFS1 (?) which
> contained a brief blurb about the game and a mockup of the cover art.
> That was the last I heard of it.  I don't know what EA did with the Le
> Mans licence but it's clear that they kept the McLaren licence for
> NFS2 (and keep it still for NFSHS).

>         Question to anyone who knows: Did the EA game Mario Andretti
> Racing (not the newer Andretti Racing) contain the 24h Le Mans
> circuit?

> Martin
> Nigel Mansell RIP!

>Magny Cours is typical of today's circuits and is as bad as the Le Mans
>"Bugatti" circuit! The primary objective for the track designer is how to
>cram a 2+ mile circuit into as small an area as possible.

>- Michael