Five new tracks for GPL released today

- Sebring. Yes, finally it's here thanks to Smogbike and EricB!!! - Autodromo Ciudad de Rafaela. Argentinian track that hosted Indycar series race in 1971! - Rooster. Great fantasy track by track maestro PolarBlue21 - Hen. A sibling to Rooster. Hmmm... I see a pattern here ;-) - Bankerton. A fantasy track by Kory Miller. Finally released after a loooong betaperiod. Grab it for your totalrank! All download links, track maps, screenshots at the GPL track database http://magnust.d2g.com as per usual :-) Cheers!!! /Magnus Thom� - - - - GPL Track Database - - - http://magnust.d2g.com - - - -

Wow! I was actually at the Rafaela race in '71. Quel disastre! The local racing "expert" (to say Rafaela is in the boonies is incorrect; it is in the boonies' boonies) once attended the 500, sat in the grandstand on the mainstraight, and returned with a distorted impression of the Brickyard's layout. As the designer of the Rafaela track, he assured USAC that it was a "replica" of Indy. Everybody geared accordingly, but when we arrived, the teams discovered it was shaped more like a hotdog, with two impossibly long straights, two tight hairpins, and no "short chutes" at all. As I remember it, Gentleman Johnny Rutherford won the race, but my lasting impressions of the place were: monstrous cockroaches the size of a science experiment gone horribly wrong, beautiful women, the best steak this side of Moishe's in Montreal, and millions of perfectly preserved classic cars from the 40s and 50s used as everyday drivers. "Magnus T" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> - Sebring. Yes, finally it's here thanks to Smogbike and EricB!!! > > - Autodromo Ciudad de Rafaela. Argentinian track that hosted Indycar > series race in 1971! > > - Rooster. Great fantasy track by track maestro PolarBlue21 > > - Hen. A sibling to Rooster. Hmmm... I see a pattern here ;-) > > - Bankerton. A fantasy track by Kory Miller. Finally released after a > loooong betaperiod. Grab it for your totalrank! > > > > All download links, track maps, screenshots at the GPL track database > http://magnust.d2g.com as per usual :-) > > > > Cheers!!! > > /Magnus Thom� > > > > - - - - GPL Track Database - - - http://magnust.d2g.com - - - -

"Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:xC_4b.26587$[email hidden]... > the best steak this side of Moishe's in Montreal Another place added to my "must visit" list! I can heartily recommend "Entrecote" in Paris for any steak fans. Outlandishly reasonable prices (esp. considering it's bang in the centre of Paris), and excellent steaks. Trouble is, the queue to get in, and that's all they serve! :-) John (Except wine - it is France after all!) ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

>"John Wallace" <[email hidden]> wrote>"Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote > > the best steak this side of Moishe's in Montreal > > Another place added to my "must visit" list! As a Montr�aler, I can only but agree with Steve's choice of a Steakhouse. It's an institution. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- http://ymenard.cjb.net/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

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>- Sebring. Yes, finally it's here thanks to Smogbike and EricB!!! > >- Autodromo Ciudad de Rafaela. Argentinian track that hosted Indycar >series race in 1971! > >- Rooster. Great fantasy track by track maestro PolarBlue21 > >- Hen. A sibling to Rooster. Hmmm... I see a pattern here ;-) > >- Bankerton. A fantasy track by Kory Miller. Finally released after a >loooong betaperiod. Grab it for your totalrank!

MORE tracks?!? Fer cryin' out loud, I haven't driven all the existing ones yet. Hey designers - slow down, wouldja? :-) Eldred -- "A voice from the crowd: Right, everyone out of my garden. I've had enough of this!" Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank -2.4 N2k3 rank ? Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Not to worry. GPL is soooo fin de siecle. "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>,[email hidden]

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> (Magnus T) writes: > > >- Sebring. Yes, finally it's here thanks to Smogbike and EricB!!! > > > >- Autodromo Ciudad de Rafaela. Argentinian track that hosted Indycar > >series race in 1971! > > > >- Rooster. Great fantasy track by track maestro PolarBlue21 > > > >- Hen. A sibling to Rooster. Hmmm... I see a pattern here ;-) > > > >- Bankerton. A fantasy track by Kory Miller. Finally released after a > >loooong betaperiod. Grab it for your totalrank! > > MORE tracks?!? Fer cryin' out loud, I haven't driven all the existing

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> yet. Hey designers - slow down, wouldja? > :-) > > Eldred > -- > "A voice from the crowd: Right, everyone out of my garden. I've had > enough of this!" > > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPLRank -2.4 > N2k3 rank ? > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Steve Smith wrote: >>MORE tracks?!? Fer cryin' out loud, I haven't driven all the existing >> ones yet. Hey designers - slow down, wouldja? > Not to worry. GPL is soooo fin de siecle. If tracks keep coming out at this rate, GPL is going to be fin the *this* siecle ;) (For today, Rob Hunter promised a beta of Brooklands at MadCowie's!) Regards, Rudy (GPLRank -7.8)

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 02:39:07 GMT, "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Not to worry. GPL is soooo fin de siecle. I dunno, after a couple months of beating my brains against F1C, I'm happily back to GPL as the open-wheel sim of choice. It's no N2003, and PTA is amazing, but I can't deal without having a good open wheel roadie sim on my PC and GPL is still untouchable. Jason

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 02:39:07 GMT, "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Not to worry. GPL is soooo fin de siecle. Steve.. you are kidding right? F1C and N2003 are fantastic but GPL -still- gives me thrills I don't get in any other sim.. For me it's not a question of which one has a better tire model or which one has more realistic physics, for me it's the fun factor that counts - and with GPL I'm simply still having the most fun at the end :) Andre

To me, N2003 *is* an open-wheel sim...but then. I', a roof rider. "jason moyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 02:39:07 GMT, "Steve Smith" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Not to worry. GPL is soooo fin de siecle. > > I dunno, after a couple months of beating my brains against F1C, I'm > happily back to GPL as the open-wheel sim of choice. It's no N2003, > and PTA is amazing, but I can't deal without having a good open wheel > roadie sim on my PC and GPL is still untouchable. > > Jason

My main thrill, er, interest in driving N2003 on road courses is precisely because it *is* so much more fun than GPL. The Cup cars are faster (lap & Vmax), looser (less finicky), and tolerate--nay, demand--a more lurid driving style. But yer right; nothing will ever replace GPL, not even the when-as-and-if GPL2; at least not in my affections. I grew up w. RW racing in the Glorious Sixties...and I matured as a sim racer w. GPL in the naughty Nineties. "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 02:39:07 GMT, "Steve Smith" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Not to worry. GPL is soooo fin de siecle. > > Steve.. you are kidding right? F1C and N2003 are fantastic but GPL > -still- gives me thrills I don't get in any other sim.. For me it's > not a question of which one has a better tire model or which one has > more realistic physics, for me it's the fun factor that counts - and > with GPL I'm simply still having the most fun at the end :) > > Andre

"Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Q__5b.53231$[email hidden]... > To me, N2003 *is* an open-wheel sim...but then. I', a roof rider. But it ain't no GPL King of sims !!!!

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:06:08 GMT, "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote: >To me, N2003 *is* an open-wheel sim...but then. I', a roof rider. Arcade racer!! Nothing touches N2003, but I dunno, I still find GPL to be highly enjoyable. It's the second best sim ever made, and I have no problems with 2 sims on my PC. I'm finding it much more enjoyable now that I'm just racing it for pleasure and concentrating on improving my times in PTA instead. Jason