rec.autos.simulators

>I'm still surprised that Papyrus haven't continued with their CART
>series and have instead chosen to focus on Nascar. Did they ever give
>a reason for this?

>Blight

> I remember seeing a post from someone at papy stating that most of the
> CART nuts have left the company, and the people that remain are more
> thrilled by NASCAR than anything else...  Anyone else remembers
> reading something like this?

> Frank

> >Dave emailed and pointed out that he never actually said they couldn't get the
> >license, but that they simply didn't have plans for a future CART sim. Maybe
> >they can get the license? Anyway, having no plans is worse than an inability to
> >get the license. It means they don't even care. With the competition from EA
> >Sports and now Hasbro, Sierra probably won't allow anything except constant
> >NASCAR. I'm a NASCAR fan myself, but even I'd like to see an updated CART or F1
> >sim.

> Francois Dubuc,

> Simulator ***world,
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/***world/

>>You're right about that...  Can't believe my friend Brian who lives in
>>the US has to watch the CART races with a 1 hour delay while I'm
>>watching it live in Canada...  Can't believe they sometimes
>>interrupted race coverage to show guess what...  GOLF!!!  That's too
>>much to take...  If I was a US citizen, I'd move out to Canada... <G>

>>Frank

>Oooh, oooh, d'you know what else? Sometimes when they, you know, the US,
>like when they show the Olympics, they actually interrupt their coverage to
>show the Olympics! yeah. I mean like not often. But sometimes they do.
>Really, I'm not kidding. I actually once saw a bobsled go down the track.
>Well, like part of the way, before they went to commercial.... And oh! A
>skier. Yeah. I once saw a skier on the screen. I did. Like for 15 seconds.
>But he was there. And he was skiing. But I think he started trying to sell
>me chapstick or something. so maybe it was just another commecial. but at
>least he was skiing. like some sporting, you know? not some story of how
>this 100th place downhill skier from the Congo stubbed his toe in the
>second grade and got like inspired to do incredible things and how....

>Of course we all know who to blame for this.... CANADA!
>Yes, yes, you and your insidious alpha-gamma-delta-epsilon....  RAYS!
>Aim them at us you do. But strong are we with the force. Mind what we have
>learned. Pay you will soon!