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My query....  If someone can create a BrandsHatch track, or a Dubai, I'm
surprised no one has undertaken the duty of making a converted Monza...  It
would be the absolute coolest!

I hope this starts a thread about the movie Grand Prix

speedracer

you are not the first one who requests this 'new' track! ;-)

ok, here it comes: this movie kicks ass, racing-wise ... but very poor
story off the track ... and why didn't they show the race at the glen? I
would love to hear them squeeking tires in the loop ;-)

Lio

Yea i was surprised they didnt show it the first time i saw the movie seeing as
how its an American made film and all.  I heard some rumor once about there
being some kind of reason behind that...they could only fit so many races in or
something...probably no truth to the rumor but then again maybe there is.

Chris

This has been suggested many times, unfortunately no-one has the track
editor to do it, except maybe the mysterious "Dave Noonan".

Also it may not even be possible due to the effective figure of eight
configuration.

- Michael

By the way, I noticed to late that the movie was on tv a couple of
weeks ago, so I missed the first part of the movie. I have the movie
on tape from the part where they race on Spa.
Can anyone tell me which races are in the movie besides Spa,
Zandvoort, Silverstone and Monza?

Andre

Mike.

Andre

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:52:13 +0100, "Mike West"

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I hear also that cars running over the bridge of the banking would collide with
cars below as the sim is not true 3d....don't know if thats true or not.

: >Can anyone tell me which races are in the movie besides Spa,
: >Zandvoort, Silverstone and Monza?

monaco, brands rather than silverstone, and that french track who's
name i can never remember, but it ain't rouen!

zandvoort, oh yes.  one of the best little scenes in the movie for me
is an overhead shot (from a blimp?)  of someone running off the track
(but not too far) somewhere at zandy, then edging the car slowly back
onto the track, and then giving it too much and spinning back off!  it
all happens in about 3 seconds, but i've lived that moment so many
times.  so many it hurts.

i wonder if there are cans of unused footage in some vault
somewhere....  we deserve to be told!

martin.
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   I own a copy of the movie,and usually watch it a few time each year. I'm
at the point where I fast forward through the movie just to get to the race
segments.

Joel Willstein

Ian

Clermont-Ferrand....but they didn't actually show any racing there,  just
some build up of the plot.

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Matthias Flatt