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NEW GPL tracks released

7 posts by 5 people · 04 May 2002 17:29 UTC - 07 May 2002 01:07 UTC

"Magnus T" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Here's a direct link: > >http://magnust.d2g.com/index.asp?Max_tracks=20&Sort_order=Released_date+DESC > > Track builders been busy lately :D !!! 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.
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 snaked 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 "Magnus T" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Here's a direct link: > >http://magnust.d2g.com/index.asp?Max_tracks=20&Sort_order=Released_date+DESC > > Track builders been busy lately :D !!!
On Sun, 5 May 2002 00:38:06 -0700, "Dale Green" <[email hidden]> wrote: >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? ;-)
"Joe62" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sun, 5 May 2002 00:38:06 -0700, "Dale Green" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > So you're saying this is a level of large brown dirt hills? ;-) Exactly :) Dale.

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