fantastic. Enough straights for a little drafting, and a gut-check full
throttle section through the first few turns.
> Any (or all) of these tracks would delight me. Our friend Achim--who
seems
> to have been "away from his desk" for these past coupla weeks--favors Cup
> cars crashing around Monte Carlo like the proverbial bull in a china shop.
> I prefer larger arenas, with room to swing a cat (which may be why I'm aka
> Toonces).
> Of all the wonderful tracks Dave Noonan's converters have given us, I like
> driving Zandvoort the best - it has a great rhythm (and the consequences
of
> getting a wheel off aren't nearly as dire as in GPL). Likewise,
> Bridgehampton (where I saw the big ol' stockers run in the 1960s) might be
> even better.
> Riverside is my second fav, mainly because I saw Gurney hustle the Wood
> Brothers' Mercury around there when I was a kid, and I marvelled at the
car
> control he had over that 427 cu. in. monster. I only drove there in
> iddy-biddy (as Dubya would say) Porsches, but even now the Esses raise the
> hackles on my neck. But oh, that interminable backstretch! I wish we had
> the "sports car" course (T6 to T7 to T7A, eliminating T8, and halving the
> back straight).
> Admittedly, Elkhart and Silverstone are "stab it and steer it," drag races
> between right-angled corners, but the Oesterreichring is a blast,
infinitely
> better than the emasculated version now masquerading as the "A1" Ring. I
> bet Noonan's superb Imola and Road Atlanta would be equally fine.
> I'll never be good enough to master the other 'ring, Nurburg, and even
Sears
> is too tricky for me. I like the old Glen better than the new one, and
most
> of the street courses (except the relatively long-legged Surfers) are
> tank-slapping bores, altho Achim did get me to try Detroit (where I used
to
> wreck with depressing regularity in IndyCar Racing II), and, lo, I liked
it.
> It has a nice flow, even though it's kinda like a lateral Steeplechase.
> I haven't had this much fun in a driving game since "Mobil 1 Rally
> Championship."
> --Steve
> > > Fair. It ought to appeal mightily to the Aussie V8 hooligans looking
> for a
> > > suitable venue. Seems kinda hemmed in for such an open setting, tho.
> > Then for some reason I suspect it will appeal to me :-)
> > > If I had a wish list for a dozen N2003-enabled natural-terrain road
> > > circuits, it would have to include (in order of appeal):
> > <snip>
> > > V.I.R. - if the Bridge is an American Zandy, this is a Yank Reims
> > > Reims (if I couldn't have V.I.R.)
> > Keep your eyes out for this one Steve, Jan had a track weekend there a
> > while ago and is campaigning to get this track into N2003 somehow, and
> > Jan often gets what he wants :-)
> > Beers and cheers
> > (uncle) Goy
> > "goyl at nettx dot no"
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> > "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
> > --Groucho Marx--