N2 needs a new Sears Point track update

The first Nascar testing on the new reconfigured Sears Point Raceway got underway today. They made a bypass of turn 5 & 6 and now go from turn 4 directly to turn 7. They call this part the "Chute" because its a fast drop down the hill to 7. The change was made so the spectators could have a better view of the cars. Only a handful of teams came out to test. Its hard to tell who's who without paint on some of the cars. Jeff Gordon Johnny Benson Chad Little Joe Nemechek Rusty Wallace Jerry Nedeau Most of the lap times were in the 1:12's. Thats about 26 seconds quicker than on the old track. I guess N3 will have the new track layout.

The City of Long Beach poured the concrete for the sidewalk that parallels the new Pacific Aquarium, effectively eliminating turn-1. The 1998 CART event will have the track go-around the aquarium (making a left at turn-1, instead of the old right-turn), and will increase the length of the track to 2-miles. So it would appear that both N3 (and the proposed CART-2000?<g>) will need a face...er...track_lift. =) Cheers! Marc

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> The first Nascar testing on the new reconfigured Sears Point Raceway > got underway today. They made a bypass of turn 5 & 6 and now go from > turn 4 directly to turn 7. They call this part the "Chute" because its a > fast > drop down the hill to 7. The change was made so the spectators could > have a better view of the cars. > Only a handful of teams came out to test. Its hard to tell who's who > without paint on some of the cars. > Jeff Gordon > Johnny Benson > Chad Little > Joe Nemechek > Rusty Wallace > Jerry Nedeau > Most of the lap times were in the 1:12's. Thats about 26 seconds quicker > than > on the old track. > I guess N3 will have the new track layout.

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>The City of Long Beach poured the concrete for the sidewalk that >parallels the new Pacific Aquarium, effectively eliminating turn-1. >The 1998 CART event will have the track go-around the aquarium (making >a left at turn-1, instead of the old right-turn), and will increase >the length of the track to 2-miles. >So it would appear that both N3 (and the proposed CART-2000?<g>) will >need a face...er...track_lift. =)

Mark..... That would be the 1999 LB CART event ;-) Well, I didn't see turn1 as a left-turn in both CART and Atlantic races (Hopefully I wasn't under the influence of too many French Canadian Beers !). So what your saying is that instead of the traditional : _____ | | __| Turn1--> | | It will be : _________ | | | |__ |<---Turn1 | Is this all ok ? wrong ? If true, this would be not more safer for cars coming out of the pits, since they would normally go right into the track at the braking zone. Oh and I hope this ASCI is well rendered on other's Mail readers. Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard, (-o-) Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. Member of the r.a.s. Ego-maniac club Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking) Excuse me for being provocative (I'm dumb speaking) --"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--

I have a feeling an update might be coming..; ) take care Julian Data ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hungry for NEWSGROUPS??? USE feedME.ORG Read and Post to 30,000 groups through feedME.ORG FREE FREE FREE http://www.feedME.ORG FREE FREE FREE ------------------------------------------------------------------

> Mark..... > That would be the 1999 LB CART event ;-) Ooops!...So right you are! ~=P That's about the size of it...Except, after viewing the mess over there today, I think it'll be closer to this: _______________ / \_______ X <---GTE Building / \ / . . . \ | Old Track---> . . | | _____ . . | \______/ |\<---Turn1 | | \ | | | | Pits--->| | | | | | Dunno...looked OK to me. ;) Cheers! Marc -- (please remove '_*_' when replying) Sim Racing News - http://www.simnews.com The Sim Project - http://www.simproject.com * No animals were harmed in the making of this e-mail *