Arrrrgggg!!

Just finished watching a clip on SPEEDVISION with Patrick Depailler driving the Tyrrell 008 a few laps at the old Long Beach GP circuit. Man that track was great!!!!!! Too bad we don't have it around anymore :( -Cheers!

>"Regular Racer" <[email hidden]> wrote > Just finished watching a clip on SPEEDVISION with Patrick Depailler > driving the Tyrrell 008 a few laps at the old Long Beach GP circuit. Man > that track was great!!!!!! > Too bad we don't have it around anymore :( You can get that track for GP2, it's a great rendering. Not sure if they made the LB-F1 circuit for GP3. The only problem is that GP2 supports not well banking, so the big and long banking you have on the SF line is not present. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

I went to all the Formula 1 races there (a bunch of us did an annual road-trip from Seattle each year -- what fun that was), and was very disappointed when I went to a CART race there 5 or 6 years ago. The "up-the-hill, right 90 degree onto Long Beach Blvd, short-straight, down the hill" section was simply amazing -- it's gone completely, of course. The first year, security was pretty lax, and we spent one whole practice session standing behind the low barriers on Long Beach Boulevard, outside George's 117 bar (our official race headquarters), watching the cars come up over the crest of the hill, turning right onto Long Beach Blvd, and occasionally touching the barriers behind which we were standing. Try to do that now-adays! John Regular Racer wrote:

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> > Just finished watching a clip on SPEEDVISION with Patrick Depailler > driving the Tyrrell 008 a few laps at the old Long Beach GP circuit. Man > that track was great!!!!!! > Too bad we don't have it around anymore :( > > -Cheers!

That's nothing, there's a track in Germany you can get right out to and run around during the race! I just couldn't resist. :) -Pav "John Zumsteg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I went to all the Formula 1 races there (a bunch of us did an annual > road-trip from Seattle each year -- what fun that was), and was very > disappointed when I went to a CART race there 5 or 6 years ago. The > "up-the-hill, right 90 degree onto Long Beach Blvd, short-straight, down > the hill" section was simply amazing -- it's gone completely, of course. > The first year, security was pretty lax, and we spent one whole practice > session standing behind the low barriers on Long Beach Boulevard, > outside George's 117 bar (our official race headquarters), watching the > cars come up over the crest of the hill, turning right onto Long Beach > Blvd, and occasionally touching the barriers behind which we were > standing. Try to do that now-adays! > > John > > Regular Racer wrote: > > > > Just finished watching a clip on SPEEDVISION with Patrick Depailler > > driving the Tyrrell 008 a few laps at the old Long Beach GP circuit.

Man > > that track was great!!!!!! > > Too bad we don't have it around anymore :( > > > > -Cheers!

"Regular Racer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Thqv6.2731$[email hidden]... > Just finished watching a clip on SPEEDVISION with Patrick Depailler > driving the Tyrrell 008 a few laps at the old Long Beach GP circuit. Man > that track was great!!!!!! > Too bad we don't have it around anymore :( But we still have Long Beach! I've been to every one and they've all been good races in their own way. The city has evolved and so has the race track. The current configuration provides some of the best racing I've seen at The Beach. Only two more weeks...<g> -- don GPL Programs for the Converted Tracks: http://www.ianparker.co.uk/gpl/bapom/

Are you including each time they get stuck in the hairpin? That's just pathetic. -Pav "don hodgdon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:99ljji$2cr$[email hidden]... > > "Regular Racer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Thqv6.2731$[email hidden]... > > Just finished watching a clip on SPEEDVISION with Patrick Depailler > > driving the Tyrrell 008 a few laps at the old Long Beach GP circuit.Man > > that track was great!!!!!! > > Too bad we don't have it around anymore :( > > > But we still have Long Beach! I've been to every one and they've all been > good races in their own way. The city has evolved and so has the racetrack. > The current configuration provides some of the best racing I've seen atThe

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> Beach. > > Only two more weeks...<g> > > -- > don > > GPL Programs for the Converted Tracks: > http://www.ianparker.co.uk/gpl/bapom/ > > > >

"John Pavlicek" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:99ljsg$pql$[email hidden]... > Are you including each time they get stuck in the hairpin? That's just > pathetic. > > -Pav Did you see the last lap of the trans-am series race there last year? Now that's chaos.

He didn't run around the whole track! He was carrying a very heavy sign! In fact, who can run along Hockenheim?? That's along walk.... I know - he was trying to figure out why SCGT got the track all wrong.... ************************************ Dave Pawlikowski [email hidden] www.cushdrive.com www.luftwaffe-experten.com ICQ - 103134094 "Ah, the Luftwaffe.. The Washington Generals of The History Channel." Homer Simpson ************************************ " > That's nothing, there's a track in Germany you can get right out to and run > around during the race! > > I just couldn't resist. :) > > -Pav >

No no, he was getting one of his last opportunities to run on the track before they redo it. -Pav "Karaya One" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:eFsv6.1158$[email hidden]...

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> He didn't run around the whole track! He was carrying a very heavy sign! > > In fact, who can run along Hockenheim?? That's along walk.... > > I know - he was trying to figure out why SCGT got the track all wrong.... > > ************************************ > Dave Pawlikowski > [email hidden] > www.cushdrive.com > www.luftwaffe-experten.com > ICQ - 103134094 > "Ah, the Luftwaffe.. The Washington > Generals of The History Channel." > Homer Simpson > ************************************ > " > That's nothing, there's a track in Germany you can get right out to

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> run > > around during the race! > > > > I just couldn't resist. :) > > > > -Pav > > > >

"don hodgdon" <[email hidden]> wrote > The city has evolved and so has the race track. > The current configuration provides some of the best racing I've seen atThe > Beach. But seriously, if you had the choice of having CART cars on either of the modern circuit and the old one, which would you prefer? -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

The old one, of course<g>. Best Long Beach memory, working blue flag at the entry to T1 the year Mario won in the Lotus, looking into the eyes of Lauda, Scheckter and Andretti as they stood on the brakes for the difficult downhill right hander. don >"ymenard" <[email hidden]> wrote in messagenews:9Wtv6.536154$[email hidden]...

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> "don hodgdon" <[email hidden]> wrote > > The city has evolved and so has the race track. > > The current configuration provides some of the best racing I've seen at > The > > Beach. > > > But seriously, if you had the choice of having CART cars on either of the > modern circuit and the old one, which would you prefer? > > > > > -- > -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> > -- May the Downforce be with you... > -- http://www.ymenard.com/ > -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez > Corporation - helping America into the New World... > > >