GPL: Drivers Protest New Glen Inner Loop. Won't Return

As a GPL driver I must agree. this track is an abomination. Let the N2 weenies run it. "ZZ" -- Official member IGPS (Internet Grand Prix Series) And Sim Racing Mag Ferrari Challenge ----------------- Busch Carpentry "Plans?" ---------------- Busch Motorsports "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward"

Watkins Glen, NY. Grand Prix drivers expressed their disgust with the confusing, dangerous "inner loop" added to their track for this afternoon's GP and vowed not to return unless it was removed a spokesperson said. Ten drivers crashed there during the race and it was extremely hazardous every lap with no flagman in sight and cars piled up at every turn. "We are gentleman and Grand Prix drivers. This obnoxious piece of tarmac is an insult to our high speed cornering skills and completely destroys the rhythm of the track. Perhaps you younger gentlemen with your funny accents, behemoth cars and crappy handling may need it but we plan to return to the real course..."

Lol; We the younger gentlemen have high speed cornering skills and low speed cornering skills and find the inner loop just another set of turns. If you have high speed cornering skills, then you should be able to handle the inner loop at high speed. Show your skill by successfully navigating it. BTW, they added the inner loop in real life because of the inability of real drivers to safely make the original 4th turn without dying and because of the danger that exists if equipment fails and the car doesnt turn left and goes straight, head-on into the fence. We, the younger gentlemen with no accent and who actually live within an Atlantic Ocean's distance of the track, have a lot better handling cars in fact, than a 400 lb gocart with 400 bhp on beefed up lawn mower tires, that you must drive sideways all the way around the track to go fast with. LMAO >"We are gentleman and Grand Prix drivers. This obnoxious piece of >tarmac is an insult to our high speed cornering skills and completely >destroys the rhythm of the track. Perhaps you younger gentlemen with >your funny accents, behemoth cars and crappy handling may need it but >we plan to return to the real course..."

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:11:05 -0500, "Phillip Malphrus, Jr." >Lol; We the younger gentlemen have high speed cornering skills and low speed >cornering skills and find the inner loop just another set of turns. If you >have high speed cornering skills, then you should be able to handle the >inner loop at high speed. Show your skill by successfully navigating it. Phil, I know, I just wrote it for fun after trying the great new track converter and found the AI totally confused by the loop. 10 of them crashed out there within the first 3 laps. It appears those older guys don't quite like it :) Jeff

> As a GPL driver I must agree. this track is an abomination. Let the N2 > weenies run it. I guess us N2 "weenies" are just more talented sim racers. BTW - some of us "weenies" run GPL, Viper Racing, SportCar GT, F1, CART, etc etc. As someone who raced SCCA... I ran the Glen with "Da Boot" and no inner loop on the backstretch. For those of you unaware of it, Watkins has a "boot" section of the course which is not used by NASCAR. Im not sure if the regional/national SCCA uses the boot anymore or not. The change of surface was always a joy when exiting the boot. Now THAT was a blast! =) Scott PA-Scott G.T.S. Racing - http://home.earthlink.net/~sbhusted/GTS/gts.html -- Scott B. Husted ICQ# 4395450

N2 "weenies"? Thanks a bunch. Zog

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> > Grand Prix drivers expressed their disgust with the confusing, > > dangerous "inner loop" added to their track for this afternoon's GP > > and vowed not to return unless it was removed a spokesperson said. Ten > > drivers crashed there during the race and it was extremely hazardous > > every lap with no flagman in sight and cars piled up at every turn. > > "We are gentleman and Grand Prix drivers. This obnoxious piece of > > tarmac is an insult to our high speed cornering skills and completely > > destroys the rhythm of the track. Perhaps you younger gentlemen with > > your funny accents, behemoth cars and crappy handling may need it but > > we plan to return to the real course..." > As a GPL driver I must agree. this track is an abomination. Let the N2 > weenies run it. > "ZZ" > -- > Official member IGPS (Internet Grand Prix Series) > And Sim Racing Mag Ferrari Challenge > ----------------- > Busch Carpentry > "Plans?" > ---------------- > Busch Motorsports > "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward"

-- Don't let the bastards grind you down. Doug Schneider Bedford, Nova Scotia Canada

Oh come on I just like to stir the pot once in a while : ) "ZZ" -- Official member IGPS (Internet Grand Prix Series) And Sim Racing Mag Ferrari Challenge ---------------- Busch Motorsports "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward" ----------------- Busch Carpentry "Plans?"

i was just playing around too<G> >On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:11:05 -0500, "Phillip Malphrus, Jr." >>Lol; We the younger gentlemen have high speed cornering skills and low speed

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>>cornering skills and find the inner loop just another set of turns. If you >>have high speed cornering skills, then you should be able to handle the >>inner loop at high speed. Show your skill by successfully navigating it. >Phil, >I know, I just wrote it for fun after trying the great new track >converter and found the AI totally confused by the loop. 10 of them >crashed out there within the first 3 laps. It appears those older >guys don't quite like it :) >Jeff