Monte Carlo / F1 track

Hi I read about the "swimming pool" of the Monte Carlo track during F1 races but fail to see the pool in F1 games. Can anyone tell me where exactly is the famous pool ? by the way, where is that famous track that is associated with Senna's death? regards Leong

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> Hi > I read about the "swimming pool" of the Monte Carlo track during F1 races > but fail to see the pool in F1 games. > Can anyone tell me where exactly is the famous pool ? > by the way, where is that famous track that is associated with Senna's > death? > regards > Leong

You cannot actually see the water of the pool when driving round the circuit because the pool is lightly above the level of the track and behind a wall but I will describe where it is. Leaving the tunnel the track drops slightly downhill into the Nouvelle Chicane, from there the track follows the harbour line to the quick left at tabac. Shortly after this the track takes a left-right jink followed , after a short straight by a matching right-left. The jinks mark the corners of the pool with the straight running parallel to the long axis. Prior to the construction of the pool the course ran straight from Tabac to Rascasse, the hairpin round the restaurant at the end of the harbour section. Finally Ayrton Senna was killed at the Tamburello curve on the Autodromo de Enzo y Dino Ferrari at Imola near Modena, Northern Italy (apologies if the spelling is poor).

It's the building you drive around in the harbor. After the tunnel exit there's the chicane, followed by a short straight and a left-hander. You are now looking straight at the pool complex. The next left-right - right-left combination takes you around it. Imola, Italy. --- Jon Petersson Support Sarah-K and the rasf1 car! http://user.tninet.se/~rdv654m/Jon.html user:rasf1 password:gogirl

The Swimming Pool or `Le Piscine' in French, is located around the back section of Monte Carlo. Once you exit the tunnnel, pass through `le nouveau chicane', turn left at `tabac', then you will head turn to a fast left-right followed by a right-left chicane, which from the perimeter of the swimming pool. You can't see it because it's on a higher level, but you can spot it on the game's intro, like in Psygnosis F1 or GP2. Someone may be able to enlighten you on the history. Incidentally, that area was widened in 97 to make the approach to the corner less `blind'. I remember Senna saying in 1992 that it's one of the sections he enjoys most (the complex after Tabac). Senna died at the Imola circuit, which actually is in Italy, but had it place in the calendar secured after the good response of the 1982(?) race. Since there can't be two races from the same country, it was titled as the San Marino GP, named after the tiny Principality of Italy, just next door. Much like how the race at the Nurburing is called the Luxembourg GP, even though it's actually in Germany. The track has been reconfigured and the new version appears in Ubi F1 and the GP2 Trackpack. Cheers, Stanley Chan

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> Hi > I read about the "swimming pool" of the Monte Carlo track during F1 > races > but fail to see the pool in F1 games. > Can anyone tell me where exactly is the famous pool ? > by the way, where is that famous track that is associated with Senna's > death? > regards > Leong