rec.autos.simulators

by **Magnus** » Mon, 06 May 2002 02:29:38

Here's a direct link:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Track builders been busy lately :D !!!

by **Dale Gree** » Mon, 06 May 2002 16:38:06

http://magnust.d2g.com/index.asp?Max_tracks=20&Sort_order=Released_da...

Mmm... Lime Rock. I like it. Haven't driven that track since SCGT. Turn 2
(or is it 1b) is diabolical in a Lotus.

Rock Island is cool... reminds me of driving in the interior of British
Columbia around Kamloops (99.9% of you won't know what I'm talking about).

Dale.

by **istof** » Mon, 06 May 2002 16:47:24

hey dave h.

watkins glen with 'the boot' is there.

unless you've seen it already...

Regards all,
istoff

by **Steve Smit** » Tue, 07 May 2002 02:28:52

Holy Smegma, Batman! Brent Adams' Lime Rock is absolutely fabulous! I had
been dubious a) because I never much liked the track in the first place--it
seemed awfully dinky for a major track (the only major race it ever hosted
was the one-off Formula Libre in the Fifties, won by Roger Ward in a
one-gear, hand-braked midget, which tell you something about the magnitude
of the venue), and b) because the earlier GPL iterations lacked, ah,
resonance. But the finished version (with and w/o the despised chicane)
looks and feels like the real thing. Just like being there. I turned in
hundreds of laps there in the Sixties for Car and Driver, testing everything
from the Rover Turbine that ran Le Mans to the Oscar Meyer Wiernermobile.
Adams' version is true to life. Kudos to all involved.

Maybe after a bit of R&R, Adams & Co. could be persuaded to model the full
3.0-mile circuit John Fitch envisioned before it was built. There was
supposed to be a 1.5-mile extension that took off from the escape road at
the end of the straight (not modeled in the current release), then s*** up
into the mountain behind and to the right of Big Bend, and rejoined the
current track just before the track's only lefthander. Now *that* would
have been a major track! And still (virtually) could be....

--Steve Smith

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

by **Joe6** » Wed, 08 May 2002 01:52:35

On Sun, 5 May 2002 00:38:06 -0700, "Dale Green"

>Rock Island is cool... reminds me of driving in the interior of British
>Columbia around Kamloops (99.9% of you won't know what I'm talking about).

So you're saying this is a level of large brown dirt hills? ;-)

by **Dale Gree** » Wed, 08 May 2002 10:07:01

> On Sun, 5 May 2002 00:38:06 -0700, "Dale Green"

> So you're saying this is a level of large brown dirt hills? ;-)

Exactly :)

Dale.

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