rec.autos.simulators

"The final release of the awaited "Lime Rock Park" track set new standards
for GPL addon tracks, after 11 months work you can finally see precisely
what that track looked like. Complete with individually handpainted trees
and unique bumps in the tarmac.
Read the release info here:
http://www.racesimcentral.net/;

Mikkel

It was mentioned in the thread "NEW GPL tracks announced".  Great track, I
drove if for an hour or so today.

Dale.

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 1960s 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 L.R. 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