GTL - nurby?

> Correct me if I'm wrong but what if when the track was used back in 76
> "Turn-key Inc" owned it and now in its current config "Furby Inc" owns
> it would this mean you'd have to contact that original company to
> create that version of the track or does FIA have say so over every
> varation of a track ?

Who owns the Nordeschleife now? Who do the fees go to when people
pay to run the course?

I thought it was considered a public road so it would be Germany or
the city that the track is located I would guess....




On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:26:13 -0700, "Jeff Reid"
> wrote:

>> Correct me if I'm wrong but what if when the track was used back in 76
>> "Turn-key Inc" owned it and now in its current config "Furby Inc" owns
>> it would this mean you'd have to contact that original company to
>> create that version of the track or does FIA have say so over every
>> varation of a track ?
>
>Who owns the Nordeschleife now? Who do the fees go to when people
>pay to run the course?
>

>"Rich8" > wrote
>I thought it was considered a public road so it would be Germany or
> the city that the track is located I would guess....



I take nothing out of the quality of GTL as a sim, or the historical reason
of the FIA series. But it's such a waste of development time to give us
such bland tracks for such great cars. It's like the total opposites here,
we have some incredible fun to drive cars, from various historical years,
the envy of many people here to finally have the chance to drive them, and
we're stuck with bland modern neutralised "Tilke-ed" tracks.

Of course there's a couple of good ones (Spa...Anderstorp... Mondello...
Monza errr that's about it). And oh yeah third-party tracks, but we all
know that they are sometimes far from perfect, and they take time to create.

SimBin/10tacle imho does a great job at modelling tracks, the detail is
impressive, even outside the track. They should have put more money/working
men into trying to give us older version of the tracks. Even if it involves
more licensing.

It will be the pet peeve of many people here, the kind of ommision where
people won't actually buy the sim or bring new people to the sim by word of
mouth.





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ymenard wrote:

> I take nothing out of the quality of GTL as a sim, or the historical reason
> of the FIA series. But it's such a waste of development time to give us
> such bland tracks for such great cars. It's like the total opposites here,
> we have some incredible fun to drive cars, from various historical years,
> the envy of many people here to finally have the chance to drive them, and
> we're stuck with bland modern neutralised "Tilke-ed" tracks.

This is probably going to sound weird, but I wish someone would do a
sim that focused on American road racing circuits. It wouldn't even
have to simulate any particular series...just a general collection of
great American tracks. A few crap ones for historical value
(Cleveland, Sebring) and then the classics...Lime Rock, Road Atlanta,
Road America, Watkins Glen, Portland, Long Beach, Laguna Seca, Mid
Ohio, the great Canadian tracks (Mosport, Mont Tremblant,
Trois-Rivieres), maybe throw in Mexico City, have multiple
configurations of each track in both modern and historical form.

I think a really great sim could be made with the quasi-fictional style
cars of LFS but with a collection of great licensed tracks. It would
probably interest me more than some of the fully-licensed stuff like
GTR and GTL.

I fully endorse this suggestion but why not go one step further and include,
as part of the package, the cars from the 1960's Can-Am and TransAm series?


Now *there's* a novel idea!!!

Bruce.

"jason moyer" > wrote in message
oups.com...

> This is probably going to sound weird, but I wish someone would do a sim
that focused on American road racing circuits. ........etc

Bruce Kennewell wrote:
> I fully endorse this suggestion but why not go one step further and include,
> as part of the package, the cars from the 1960's Can-Am and TransAm series?
>

Sure. They could throw in F-5000 as well.