SoS 1937

It's getting to be pretty late in the day of the 27th, are they going to miss another deadline? Also, I noticed on the track map of Monza, part of the track is grayed out. It looks as if Parabolica and half of the oval aren't going to be used. After Ascari (which wouldn't be called that in '37), there's a ninety degree left and a short straight joining up with the oval. Bummer, I wanted the whole 10 km. Don McCorkle Libertarian Motorsports

They have delayed it until the end of this week: http://www.simracingnews.com/news_article.cfm?ID=193 -- Kenneth Verburg Webmaster/Editor-in-chief High Gear http://www.simracingnews.com

Yep, now it will be released 'at the end of the week'. Don't hold your breath. Andre

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>It's getting to be pretty late in the day of the 27th, are they going to miss >another deadline? >Also, I noticed on the track map of Monza, part of the track is grayed out. It >looks as if Parabolica and half of the oval aren't going to be used. After >Ascari (which wouldn't be called that in '37), there's a ninety degree left and >a short straight joining up with the oval. Bummer, I wanted the whole 10 km.

That's the configuration Monza was raced back then. I think the 10km version was used only around 1960. Also, there should be a kink in the middle of the half of the oval. Back then German cars were so fast the organisers wanted to give Italians a change and they put in a temporary chicane to slow cars down. This should be in SOS too, I remember seeing it in one screenshot. Samppa --

>>Also, I noticed on the track map of Monza, part of the track is grayed out. >>It looks as if Parabolica and half of the oval aren't going to be used. >>After Ascari (which wouldn't be called that in '37), there's a ninety degree >>left and a short straight joining up with the oval. Bummer, I wanted the >>whole 10 km. The full 10km layout was also used between 1922 and 1933. In 1934 they raced a weird configuration: along the start straight, round a 180 degree hairpin and back along the other side of the start straight, round Parabolica in reverse (or Vedano as it was then known), then turned right onto the link road and right again onto the oval. In 1935-38 they raced the configuration as shown in SoS, but in 1935-36 there were 5 temporary chicanes littered around the circuit - three in roughly the places they have chicanes now, plus 2 on the oval bit. For 1937-38 only the 2nd of the oval-chicanes was used, and none of the roadcourse ones. Regards http://members.xoom.com/IanHill http://ianhill.tripod.com/ http://www.crosswinds.net/~ianhill

Just got this from MicroProsaic: Subject: Re: Spirit of Speed 1937 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:28:52 -0700 From: To: Bart, I agree with you 100% and understand your frustration with our web site. I am not sure why SOS 1937 is only being released in Europe. This puzzles me as two of the tracks are located in the USA. Usually the argument (at least for Formula 1) is that there are no American drivers and no races are run in the USA. Obviously this argument doesn't hold any water with SOS 1937. Thank you for your frank email. I will forward it to the marketing and web site people in hopes that this will spark some change or at least get them to release the game in the USA. Andy Hasbro Interactive/MicroProse Customer Support PS-I understand the demo was delayed due to some last minute technical problems and they hope to post it by this weekend.

Just goes to show that daft chicanes are not just a modern problem! - Michael