rec.autos.simulators

by **+G2** » Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:45:05

GPL - Anyone working on Montreal?

by **Fran** » Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:45:58

I second the motion... though the Montreal race track wasn't really around
in "the good old days" of GPL

Frank
Montreal, Canada

by **Jesse Blac** » Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:46:28

Would be interesting...I don't know how much I would like it with the
hairpin and the chicanes though...

JB

>GPL - Anyone working on Montreal?

by **David Er** » Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:54:48

Well the hairpin was always there (pits and start/finish line used to be
there, IIRC) but weren't the chicanes absent in the original design?
Originally the track was designed to use the surface roads of Ille Notre
Dame that remained after the Worlds Fair and was generally a much more
flowing and natural track than todays version. Model the original for GPL
and I think it'll drive like a flat Rouen.

Dav_Erb

> Would be interesting...I don't know how much I would like it with the
> hairpin and the chicanes though...

> JB

> >GPL - Anyone working on Montreal?

by **ymenar** » Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:14:35

> Well the hairpin was always there (pits and start/finish line used to be
> there, IIRC) but weren't the chicanes absent in the original design?

Yes and no. Only one chicane (before the pit complex) wasn't originally
there. Before, it was actually a little faster right/left turn. The pit
complex was exiting the chicane, while some straight were a little more
twisty. But about 50% of the track is original now to 1978.

I also don't see the point of having such track in GPL. Suzuka was one bore
to drive in GPL (like almost all Icr2 tracks also), the Circuit
Gilles-Villeneuve would be no different.

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