rec.autos.simulators

Hi

I read about the "swimming pool" of the Monte Carlo track during F1 races
but fail to see the pool in F1 games.

Can anyone tell me where exactly is the famous pool ?

by the way, where is that famous track that is associated with Senna's
death?

regards
Leong

Leaving the tunnel the track drops slightly downhill into the Nouvelle
Chicane, from there the track follows the harbour line to the quick left
at tabac.  Shortly after this the track takes a left-right jink followed
, after a short straight by a matching right-left.  The jinks mark the
corners of the pool with the straight running parallel to the long
axis.  Prior to the construction of the pool the course ran straight
from Tabac to Rascasse, the hairpin round the restaurant at the end of
the harbour section.

Finally Ayrton Senna was killed at the Tamburello curve on the Autodromo
de Enzo y Dino Ferrari at Imola near Modena, Northern Italy (apologies
if the spelling is poor).

It's the building you drive around in the harbor. After the tunnel exit
there's the chicane, followed by a short straight and a left-hander. You are
now looking straight at the pool complex. The next left-right - right-left
combination takes you around it.

Imola, Italy.
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The Swimming Pool or `Le Piscine' in French, is located around the back
section of
Monte Carlo. Once you exit the tunnnel, pass through `le nouveau
chicane', turn left at
`tabac', then you will head turn to a fast left-right followed by a
right-left chicane, which from the perimeter of the swimming pool. You
can't see it because it's on a higher level, but you can spot it on the
game's intro, like in Psygnosis F1 or  GP2. Someone may be able to
enlighten you on the history. Incidentally, that area was widened in 97
to make the
approach to the corner less `blind'. I remember Senna saying  in 1992
that it's one of the
sections he enjoys most (the complex after Tabac).

Senna died at the Imola circuit, which actually is in Italy, but had it
place in the calendar
secured after the good response of the 1982(?) race. Since there can't
be two races from
the same country, it was titled as the San Marino GP, named after the
tiny Principality of
Italy, just next door. Much like how the race at the Nurburing is called
the Luxembourg GP, even though it's actually in Germany. The track has
been reconfigured and the new version appears in Ubi F1 and the GP2
Trackpack.

Cheers,

Stanley Chan