New GPL track Available

New Track Available for Grand Prix Legends: Lime Rock Park - Mountain Circuit. - A 3 mile Road Course that winds it's way through the hills around Lime Rock - Over 200 feet of elevation Changes - Based on Jim Vaills 1956 construction of Lime Rock Park You can read all about it here , and download it too ;-) http://limerock.racesimcentral.com/ Thanx to Steve Smith, Klee Dobra, Kev Schofield, and Alison Hine for helping to make the mountain circuit a reality. I'd also like to thank Loyd Cole (GPLEW), John Bradley (BAPOM), and the crew at RACESIMCENTRAL for their contributions. Brent Adams 10/12/02 -- Brent Adams limerock.racesimcentral.com

This is from the Lime Rock Mountain Circuit readme: -------------------------------- When Jim Vaill, whose family owned the land that Lime Rock was situated on, was laying out the 1.53-mile track in 1956, he envisioned a 1.5-mile addition to the main course which would extend the front straight, rise up in the hills behind Big Bend and the Left, then plunge down to rejoin the existing track after the exit of the Hook. Vaill got as far as bulldozing a "rough cut" of the Mountain Circuit, as it was called (its traces are still visible today; you can hike the trail), and it's in an "artist's conception" of the track prepared by industrial designer Raymond Loewy, but the MC was never built, for a variety of reasons, among them cost...and the lack of enough corner workers to cover the whole course. Brent Adams' original Lime Rock remains one of the most authentic tracks in GPL (I haven't seen every real-world track that every designer's created, but I've seen enough), and it seemed only natural to imagine what he could do with a real-world "fantasy" track. The Mountain Circuit remains one of the great might-have-beens in U.S. racing. From what we can see of Brent's realization of this dream, it would have ranked right up there with Riverside and Bridgehampton - a world-class track. Whereas Brent's 1.53-mile (and, with chicane, 1.54-mile) Lime Rock has been done in the modern idiom, the 2.93-mile Mountain Circuit is presented as it might have looked in 1957, when the track first opened to the public on the weekend of April 27-28. Brent used Loewy's renderings, contemporary aerial photography, an elevation of the proposed addition, topo maps, and modern 3D satellite views to make the layout as authentic as possible. -------------------------------- Okay, I wrote that. I also plead nolo contendre to having put Brent up to the idea of a "prequel" to his magnificent recreation of Lime Rock in the first place. I spent hours on the phone with Vaill, John Fitch, and latter-day L.R. p.r. honcho Joe Corbett, who loaned me a repro of the first-ever L.R. program. Thanks, too, to Brock Yates for loaning us a copy of Rich Taylor's classic "Lime Rock Park" (Sharon Mountain Press, 1992). Brent has done a bang-up job with the Mountain Circuit. It works fantastically well with either AI or carbon-based opponents. Looks great, drives great, a slice of heaven, as far as I'm concerned. Great job, Brent! --Steve Smith "Brent Adams" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:TJ1q9.1792$[email hidden]...

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> New Track Available for Grand Prix Legends: > > Lime Rock Park - Mountain Circuit. > > - A 3 mile Road Course that winds it's way through the hills around Lime > Rock > > - Over 200 feet of elevation Changes > > - Based on Jim Vaills 1956 construction of Lime Rock Park > > > You can read all about it here , and download it too ;-) > > http://limerock.racesimcentral.com/ > > Thanx to Steve Smith, Klee Dobra, Kev Schofield, and Alison Hine for

helping > to make the mountain circuit a reality. > > I'd also like to thank Loyd Cole (GPLEW), John Bradley (BAPOM), and thecrew

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> at RACESIMCENTRAL for their contributions. > > Brent Adams 10/12/02 > > -- > Brent Adams > limerock.racesimcentral.com > >

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:57:19 -0600, "Brent Adams" <[email hidden]> wrote: >New Track Available for Grand Prix Legends: > >Lime Rock Park - Mountain Circuit. Nice work, Brent. Any plans on doing any other New York circuits? The 3 LRP variants are fantastic, best atmosphere of any track in GPL that isn't the Nordschleife. Jason

My vote would go for another fabled Might-Have-Been: the Central Park Circuit (abt. 5 miles). Plans were afoot in the Fifties to stage a sports car race on the perimeter road inside Central Park, but fatalities at the Glen put the kibosh on any racing on public roads in New York State. Years later, within minutes of the Great Blackout of 1965, Denise McCluggage grabbed me and pushed me into her Mini Cooper S, and we roared north from the Greenwich Village headquarters of Competition Press. "Where the hell are we going?" I screamed over the squeal of the miniscule tires as we threaded our way through the biggest traffic jam Sixth Avenue has ever seen (or not - it was pitch dark). "The Park," said Miss McC; "the traffic lights will be out and I always wanted to do a lap of the Park without those damned timed lights." And so we did. "Jason Moyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:57:19 -0600, "Brent Adams" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >New Track Available for Grand Prix Legends: > > > >Lime Rock Park - Mountain Circuit. > > Nice work, Brent. Any plans on doing any other New York circuits? > The 3 LRP variants are fantastic, best atmosphere of any track in GPL > that isn't the Nordschleife. > > Jason

Spent a couple hours on this circuit and it is a very professional piece. Very technical circuit and very unforgiving when you step off the tarmac... Superb work Brent. Thank you Conga

Holy Cripes! Steve is getting to be as big a name dropper as Tom P!! hehehe (now somebody build a new modern version of VIR!!!!) dave henrie "Steve Smith" (snip)

LOL .. that would be some fun :) SS BA Steve Smith <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:a8nq9.26194$[email hidden]... > My vote would go for another fabled Might-Have-Been: the Central Park > Circuit (abt. 5 miles). Plans were afoot in the Fifties to stage a sports > car race on the perimeter road inside Central Park, but fatalities at the > Glen put the kibosh on any racing on public roads in New York State.Years > later, within minutes of the Great Blackout of 1965, Denise McCluggage > grabbed me and pushed me into her Mini Cooper S, and we roared north from > the Greenwich Village headquarters of Competition Press. "Where the hell > are we going?" I screamed over the squeal of the miniscule tires as we > threaded our way through the biggest traffic jam Sixth Avenue has everseen > (or not - it was pitch dark). "The Park," said Miss McC; "the traffic > lights will be out and I always wanted to do a lap of the Park withoutthose

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> damned timed lights." And so we did. > > "Jason Moyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:57:19 -0600, "Brent Adams" > > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > > >New Track Available for Grand Prix Legends: > > > > > >Lime Rock Park - Mountain Circuit. > > > > Nice work, Brent. Any plans on doing any other New York circuits? > > The 3 LRP variants are fantastic, best atmosphere of any track in GPL > > that isn't the Nordschleife. > > > > Jason > >

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:57:19 -0600, Brent Adams wrote: > New Track Available for Grand Prix Legends: > > Lime Rock Park - Mountain Circuit. > > - A 3 mile Road Course that winds it's way through the hills around Lime > Rock Wow Brent, I cannot wait to get home and try this beauty. LRP has quickly become one of my all time favourite addon tracks, and I think this MC is a great addition. I really like all the fantasy section names like "Smith's Straight" and "Hine Hairpin". 8-) Cheers & keep up the good work, uwe -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

>"Jason Moyer" <[email hidden]> wrote > Nice work, Brent. Any plans on doing any other New York circuits? On a similar note, I think somebody is doing the old road configuration of the Watkins Glen circuit. -- -- 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...