Ahh don't listen to them Steve, I love the history lessons. Don't read it
if you don't want it, seems easy enough to me.


"JP" > wrote in message
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> Steve Smith > wrote in message
> ...
>> Dundrod - An Appreciation
>>
>> Wrong and wrong again! All the great GPL vintage tracks have NOT been
>> released, as I so precipitously proclaimed in my 9/10 Appreciation of
> Sergio
>> Loro's Mellaha (Tripoli) and was subsequently forced to amend in my
>> Appreciation of John Basara's Monza 10K on 9/27.
>>
>> Jim Pearson, he of the superb recreation of the fabled 198-turn,
>> 15.4-mile
>> Isle of Man circuit (7/12/03), has proved me wrong again with--what
>> else?--an equally superb recreation of the only-slightly-less-stupendous
>> Dundrod circuit, altho, strictly speaking, this long (7.4-mile) and
> winding
>> (36-turn) gambol thru Northern Ireland is not contemporaneous with the
>> GPL
>> era, having last been used for the 1955 running of the famous "TT"
> (Tourist
>> Trophy), which was won that year by a trio of Mercedes-Benz 300SLRs
>> trouncing a field of Jaguar D-Types and Aston Martin DB3Ss.
>>
>> In point of fact, no single-seaters (except bikes) ever ran at Dundrod,
> and
>> given the "country lane" nature of the layout, a field of 3-liter '67 F1
>> cars would likely all have ended up in the trees, fences, hedges and
>> ditches.
>>
>> It is *very* narrow. As in real life, passing online or AI cars will be
>> very difficult, but it is nonetheless (at least for the hot-lapper) a
>> beautiful romp thru the countryside, which includes homey names like
>> Flowbog, Rushyhill, and Tornagrough, and authentic-looking signage with
>> warnings like "Slow! Wet Tar!" and "Delays Possible Until Sept. 9" (the
> '53
>> TT, simulated here, was staged on Sept. 5).
>>
>> Anyone who's driven Mobil 1 Rally Championship will find the scenery
> familar
>> (and a stone delight with eDimensional 3D glasses), as will anyone who's
>> seen footage of the historic TT in "A Gentleman's Motorracing Diary" or
> the
>> Shell Oil racing films of the day. Pearson's graphics are spot on...and
>> beautimous.
>>
>> Three drivers were killed in the '55 race, and the venue was abandoned
>> for
>> 4-wheelers as too dangerous (altho bikes continue to race there to this
>> day). Now, thanks to Jim Pearson, it lives again. His installation
>> includes a rip-snortin' 3:28.53 lap in a Brabham, and while I'm sure some
>> Alien can beat that, I can't...and neither could Stirling Moss, who put
> his
>> 300SLR on the pole with a lugubrious 4:48 (that's FOUR-forty-eight) for
> its
>> last race.
>>
>> Get Dundrod he
>>
>> http://www.jrpearson.homestead.com/Dundrod.html
>>
>> --Steve Smith
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>
> yawn.
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