rec.autos.simulators

Wouldn't it be nice to have an '80s Le Mans or endurance sim? Races would
be long, but probably fun. I saw some in car camera shots of a car
completing a lap in the 1984 Le Mans. At "Mulsanne" the car was hitting
353 kph (220 mph!!). The it hit the little kink and did 330 kph (206 mph).
A few seconds later it decelerated
down to 60 kph (40 mph) to go through the turn. Looking at a diagram of
the course, I saw numbers that looked like speeds at different parts of
the track.
At "Mulsanne" it said 364 Porsche. I don't know if that was the name of
the car, or if a Porsche did 364 kph (225 mph) there. And those were Le
Mans cars, and not IndyCars. Pretty fast...

E.A. Where supposed to have release a Le Mans Sim, With I think help
from McLaren, At some races some McLaren F1 Drivers (Maybe all off
them)anyway some drivers have EA Logo's on there Helmets when I was
watching the Races on Cable(I hope Eurosport get the rights to show
this years FIA GT Races)

So where is the game EA,(They seem to busy with all
there ***and boring 97' versions of all there games minus PGA Golf
of course) ?

Scott R. Cummings

GO #2!

        Mullins Motorsports Inc.
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:       I saw that game listed in Chips and Bits sales ad in PcGamer a few
: months ago and in the last issue it was gone.

That's because they forgot to put a "save game" feature in the sim and
all copies had to be destroyed.  For lack of this foresight all of the
programmers working on the project where sacked.  They now have to
start from scratch.

"It's a joke, son, I said I said, it's a joke!" Foghorn Leghorn

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If you have the 3D version of ICR2, then increase the amount of laps
for a race at Elkhart (make it loooong!!), begin the race with the cloud-
effect on (ALT+W...?)...After about 3-hours, hit ALT+W again (sunny-
day), and after 12-more change to night.

Pop a couple of No-Doz (or get your neighbor to co-drive the final leg),
and after 12 more hours, switch-back to cloudy-day.

Of course, the keys are no-doubt in a different order than I remember,
so instead of starting early-morning-like, you can start mid-day!!  ;)

Marc

Marc J. Nelson
Sim Racing News - USA
http://members.aol.com/simracing

   I think the original Cyrix version had that already built-in (the
six million lap "feature").  :)

Before you send me UCE, I know what you're thinking...  Did he complain
to five or six postmasters last month?  Now, you must ask yourself one
question: "Do I feel lucky?"  Well, do you, punk?

This would be awsome! Picture this:

At the start of the 24 hour race, 50 sportscars passes the pits and head
for the Dunlop chicane.
As the exit the chicane the pass under the Dunlop bridge and from there
continue downhill towards the 'Esses'. Brake-attack before the 'Esses',
down shift from 4th. to 2nd. the slam the throttle as the exit and head for
'Terte Rouge' thru the narrow forrest. Aproaching 'Terte Rouge' in 3rd. -
you brake and downshif to 2nd. gear before you brake and turn in. Exiting
the turn you nail the throttle again as you head down the 'Mulsanne'. In a
Gr. C Porsche 956 you would reach 244 mph. (390 km/h) down the straigth,
only to be passed by a WM Peugot doing 255 mph. (408 km/h). That is in fact
the official speed record on the Mulsanne, set in '84 or '85 i think. Of
course now there's two chicanes on the Mulsanne so to day they only reach
200 mph or so. The WM team tested the car on the 'autobahn' first, where
the managed some 412 km/h !!! (closed road)

Man, would a Le Mans sim be great! Imagine World Sports Cars and  Le Mans
prototype batteling it out for 24 hours on 'La Sarthe'. I visited the race
last year and will be back again this year.

Getting to drive the circuit would be great and if there's ever been a race
or series whilch DESERVED a sim, Le Mans would be it !! After all they've
been at it since 1923....

Hey why not make one for Daytona (24h) as well ?

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Edwin Solheim

Life begins at 7.000 r.p.m

-David Gary-

Yes, I heard that. I think it was a WM Peugeot P88 in 1988, and it hit 405
KPH on Mulsanne. That's about 250 MPH!! I heard that they changed
Mulsanne, though. Would have been nice to see a McLaren F1 or Lister Storm
go down the old Mulsanne. That Lister Storm is supposed to have a 7 liter
Jaguar V12 engine. They had to put a restrictor plate (or something
similar) on it to keep it from going too fast for the GTS-1 division at
the Rolex 24. I wish I would have watched a Le Mans race in the '80s. I
havn't seen a single Le Mans race yet. Plan on watching this year's race,
though, if it's on TV.

I wonder if they'll have those new modified Porsches racing there. I think
they are called Ruf Porsche CTR-2, or somethign like that. Top speed is
217 MPH. You can hit about 45 to 50 MPH in first gear.

PLEASE!........

Matthew, Norway.