rec.autos.simulators

> >Where can I find the track Mosport for LM2002 to download?

> >Bo

> There's a British guy on Speed who insists that it's pronounced
> "MOS-port", when everyone else on that channel says "MO-sport".
> Kind of bugs me...

> More on topic: what changes are there between the GPL version
> and what it looks like today for the Trans-Am guys?

>       John DiFool

>     I live close by as well and it is MOS-port. So tell those
> announcers to smarten up. :-)

>     Pete

> .

>>  Having lived 20 minutes from Mosport for 40+ years, it has
>>  always been
>> pronounced MOS-port, as in Stirling Moss :-)

>> Edward

> >     I live close by as well and it is MOS-port. So tell those
> > announcers to smarten up. :-)

> >     Pete

> > .

> >>  Having lived 20 minutes from Mosport for 40+ years, it has
> >>  always been
> >> pronounced MOS-port, as in Stirling Moss :-)

> >> Edward

> When the track was built (and I was a little younger than I am today
> <g>), Stirling Moss was still an active driver. The track was *not*
> named after him (although many would argue that it was only right and
> fitting that it be). The track name is a contraction of "Motor
> Sport". As another poster has already pointed out, if it had been
> named after Moss, it would have been spelled with two "S"s --
> Mossport (Moss Port) -- what the hell does "port" have to do with
> motor racing? Or it would have been spelled with three "S"s --
> Mosssport (Moss Sport) -- which looks extremely odd but at least
> makes some syntactic sense.

> For the Moss fans in the crowd, the "hairpin" at the farthest ond of
> the track from the Start/Finish line has been known as "Moss Corner"
> since the track opened. Some few years later (IIRC), the "straight"
> was named after Mario Andretti. I note on the latest track map from
> www.mosport.com that some of the other corners have acquired names
> since I was last there. I wonder who Clayton is/was? Corner two is
> named "Clayton Corner". Hmmm...

> I have been pronouncing it as Mo-sport even since 1966. I don't care
> how close you happen to live, if you've got your facts wrong, you've
> got your facts wrong, and proximity to the track don't change that.
> Sorry.

> OTOH, it really isn't worth getting your knickers in a knot over, is
> it? Either way you say it, no one is going to mistake it for some
> other track. I get continually confused between RA (Road America) and
> RA (Road Atlanta), for example, and it doesn't matter if you say
> "RA" or "Road A". <g>

> I'm voting for one of those tracks to suffer a name change.
> --
>   Darryl

> When the track was built (and I was a little younger than I am today
> <g>), Stirling Moss was still an active driver. The track was *not*
> named after him (although many would argue that it was only right and
> fitting that it be). The track name is a contraction of "Motor
> Sport". As another poster has already pointed out, if it had been
> named after Moss, it would have been spelled with two "S"s --
> Mossport (Moss Port) -- what the hell does "port" have to do with
> motor racing? Or it would have been spelled with three "S"s --
> Mosssport (Moss Sport) -- which looks extremely odd but at least
> makes some syntactic sense.

> For the Moss fans in the crowd, the "hairpin" at the farthest ond of
> the track from the Start/Finish line has been known as "Moss Corner"
> since the track opened. Some few years later (IIRC), the "straight"
> was named after Mario Andretti. I note on the latest track map from
> www.mosport.com that some of the other corners have acquired names
> since I was last there. I wonder who Clayton is/was? Corner two is
> named "Clayton Corner". Hmmm...

> I have been pronouncing it as Mo-sport even since 1966. I don't care
> how close you happen to live, if you've got your facts wrong, you've
> got your facts wrong, and proximity to the track don't change that.
> Sorry.

> OTOH, it really isn't worth getting your knickers in a knot over, is
> it? Either way you say it, no one is going to mistake it for some
> other track. I get continually confused between RA (Road America) and
> RA (Road Atlanta), for example, and it doesn't matter if you say
> "RA" or "Road A". <g>

> I'm voting for one of those tracks to suffer a name change.
> --
>   Darryl

> I live right next to the towns of Saline and Ypsilanti.  Residents
pronounce
> these towns as "suh-leen" and "ipsilantee" but people who live even 20
> minutes away think they are pronounced "sayleen" and "yipsilantee".  So
> sorry, don't mean to trivialize what you say, but I have living proof that
> 20 minutes away isn't close enough to mean that you know.  How do the
track
> owners pronounce it?  As was pointed out elsewhere, it's a contraction of
> motor-sport, therefore it seems logical that it would be pronounced
> "moe-sport".  Just like Motown.  It's not "mah-town", it's "moe-town".
Same
> thing.  Anyway, just my opinion.

> >  Having lived 20 minutes from Mosport for 40+ years, it has always been
> > pronounced MOS-port, as in Stirling Moss :-)

> > Edward

> I was just there for the ALMS weekend (went for the first time last year
> too), and as far as I know, the only change to the track over the years
> has been a flattening of the hump on the long back straight, seeing as
> how cars were catching air there.

>     I had never thought much about it before this thread got going
> but I have never heard anyone local ever call it anything else.
>     I can't say there aren't local people who pronounce it MO-sport
> or I can't comment on the origins of the pronounciation(although I
> do remember Moss saying that it had nothing to do with him).