British Touring Car Championship Sim.

Hello, Am I the only one around here that thinks that the news that codemasters is doing a BTTC sim is the best news since colour monitors ? Rob.

Here's another guy who thinks so. Actually, I would have thought that it would be quite marketable since every European state, Australia, South Africa, Latin America and the US have their own Touring car series. Perhaps thing will change in the UK with the Beeb's more extensive broadcast of the races and improved public awareness. I'm quite sure that Touring cars are much different animals than a NASCAR painted to look like a Volvo 850R...Actually, worldwide, I wonder which series, NASCAR or touring cars has the largest viewing audience? Cheers, Stanley Chan > Hello, > Am I the only one around here that thinks that the news that codemasters > is doing a BTTC sim is the best news since colour monitors ? > Rob.

>Hello, > Am I the only one around here that thinks that the news that codemasters >is doing a BTTC sim is the best news since colour monitors ? >Rob. No. MarkH

Hmmmm, well. The news that a BTCC sim is coming out is good, but the news that Codemasters is doing it is bad. I hope it isn't like Micro Machines :) But seriously, when Codemasters is mentioned, I can't get green and yellow spectrum games out of my head, so I'm wondering how they'll be able to produce a fast, smooth, attractive, realistic simulation. Someone please put me straight on this and give me assurance it'll be worthwhile... -- Dave Bowers

> I'm quite sure that Touring cars are much different animals than a > NASCAR painted to look like a Volvo 850R...Actually, worldwide, I wonder > which series, NASCAR or touring cars has the largest viewing audience? ---No contest on the viewing audience. NASCAR wins hands down. Just imagine last weeks race at Bristol; it was sold out, 117000 seats, and then you have the TV audience. The BTCC is excellent; definitely my euro favourite, and I pray for a decent Super Touring Sim to come out. But I think NASCAR is the greater crowdpuller simply because it is more common to attend sports events in general in the US-basketball on thursday, baseball on Friday, Football on Saturday, and NASCAR on Sunday..... It is nice to see that the S.T formula is growing-it is now even run in the states, and over here in Scandinavia. Matthew, Norway. GO Leslie, Watts, Rydell & Cleland! Go #3, 88,28!

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>> I'm quite sure that Touring cars are much different animals than a >> NASCAR painted to look like a Volvo 850R...Actually, worldwide, I wonder >> which series, NASCAR or touring cars has the largest viewing audience? >---No contest on the viewing audience. NASCAR wins hands down. Just >imagine last weeks race at Bristol; it was sold out, 117000 seats, and >then you have the TV audience. The BTCC is excellent; definitely my euro >favourite, and I pray for a decent Super Touring Sim to come out. But I >think NASCAR is the greater crowdpuller simply because it is more common >to attend sports events in general in the US-basketball on thursday, >baseball on Friday, Football on Saturday, and NASCAR on Sunday..... >It is nice to see that the S.T formula is growing-it is now even run in >the states, and over here in Scandinavia.

Well, it's a fact that the BTCC alone pulls over 1 billion viewers worldwide, and that was in 1995, when the series was relatively minor to what it is now. Then, think about the Super Touring World Cup, and the NATCC [or whatever it's called now], the Spanish, French, South African and STW championships. There must be a lot of viewers... -- Dave Bowers

Are there any screenshots anywhere? Where did you hear that they are doing a BTCC sim? Cheers, -- Dave Bowers

I would definately buy a BTCC or Touring car sim i'm in the USA now but i'm a European and i do love touring cars Nick Wakefield

Let's not forget us down here in oz. Australia has Super Touring now as well. Dave Bowers wrote in article ... >>> I'm quite sure that Touring cars are much different animals than a >>> NASCAR painted to look like a Volvo 850R...Actually, worldwide, I wonder

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>>> which series, NASCAR or touring cars has the largest viewing audience? >>---No contest on the viewing audience. NASCAR wins hands down. Just >>imagine last weeks race at Bristol; it was sold out, 117000 seats, and >>then you have the TV audience. The BTCC is excellent; definitely my euro >>favourite, and I pray for a decent Super Touring Sim to come out. But I >>think NASCAR is the greater crowdpuller simply because it is more common >>to attend sports events in general in the US-basketball on thursday, >>baseball on Friday, Football on Saturday, and NASCAR on Sunday..... >>It is nice to see that the S.T formula is growing-it is now even run in >>the states, and over here in Scandinavia. >Well, it's a fact that the BTCC alone pulls over 1 billion viewers >worldwide, and that was in 1995, when the series was relatively minor to >what it is now. Then, think about the Super Touring World Cup, and the >NATCC [or whatever it's called now], the Spanish, French, South African >and STW championships. There must be a lot of viewers... >-- >Dave Bowers

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> > I'm quite sure that Touring cars are much different animals than a > > NASCAR painted to look like a Volvo 850R...Actually, worldwide, I wonder > > which series, NASCAR or touring cars has the largest viewing audience? > ---No contest on the viewing audience. NASCAR wins hands down. Just > imagine last weeks race at Bristol; it was sold out, 117000 seats, and > then you have the TV audience. The BTCC is excellent; definitely my euro > favourite, and I pray for a decent Super Touring Sim to come out. But I > think NASCAR is the greater crowdpuller simply because it is more common > to attend sports events in general in the US-basketball on thursday, > baseball on Friday, Football on Saturday, and NASCAR on Sunday..... > It is nice to see that the S.T formula is growing-it is now even run in > the states, and over here in Scandinavia.

You will be pleased to know that a developer has the licence and is working on an Auto-Trader BTCC game. Should be around Christmas 1997. JT

> Let's not forget us down here in oz. Australia has Super Touring now as > well. You're not forgotten!!! IMHO "The mountain" is one (if not THE one) of the best tracks in the world!!! Would love to race it! (and i know for a fact the Matt favours it aswell!) BTW, how "good" is the "Touring Cars Champions" game anyway?? -- Ed_ - Norway "Early on, the cars were getting faster and faster. And with good reason: everybody was cheating." - Richard Petty

writes Hmm, maybe my BTCC carsets will stand me in good stead... :) -- Dave Bowers

Are they? Excellent! Well I'm looking forward to it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lyndon J Allen http://www.timeslice.demon.co.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> IMHO "The mountain" is one (if not THE one) of the best tracks in the > world!!! > Would love to race it! (and i know for a fact the Matt favours it aswell!) > BTW, how "good" is the "Touring Cars Champions" game anyway?? It's really dire. It would've made a good Bathurst video for a CD-ROM, but someone put a weird box-shuffling game hovering 3ft over the track. -- Greg Hingerty Anyone wanna buy a kart? - http://www.ozemail.com.au/~greghing

What's the history of Codemasters like? Are they new to the sim field? Stanley

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> > Hello, > > Am I the only one around here that thinks that the news that > codemasters > > is doing a BTTC sim is the best news since colour monitors ? > > Rob.

a little picky but, if it's a sim, it should at least have the real tracks. If they have all the real tracks, who needs track designers??

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> writes > >No screenshots that I know of. > >Codemasters are running an recruitment advert in Edge magazine for > >artists and track designers. The adverts states that they have are > >doing ' an exceptional British Touring Car Championship sim' and that > >they have the official BTTC license. > >I had half a mind to apply for a jon there myself :) > Hmm, maybe my BTCC carsets will stand me in good stead... :) > -- > Dave Bowers