Race construction

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I'm sooo with some of you on these comments. AI tuning would be good to have, actually I have seen it on quite a few other racing games. Like on TOCA race driver, for free races, you can choose your competition, and choose the AI settings. You can even take the AI setting part 100% so they'd actually be using set-ups as well to get a bit of an advantage.
Also I was thinking, that for night races, I'd actually like to see the beems of the headlights on teh cars. There was one game on the PSone called Le Mans 24 hrs, and they managed to create the cars so the beems of the head lights made a noticable differance on iluminating the imediate track ahead of you and the sides. Then if you smashed your head lights, it suddenly went dark and you had to rely on the track side illuminations. That'd be cool.
Another thought, I would like to see more realsitic kind of race fields, especially like the big GT races. It was only a little thing but it would really piss me off some times when you'd get a MAzda 787B and a GT40 racing in a GT race against the GT1's and R390 GT1's. I think they should still do it but, for only like one series/championship.
Third point i'd like to see the return of the America vs. Japan races etc. that were in GT. They were sooo kool. Though if they're going to do it I think they should only allow like the GTS class etc cars (e.g. for Britain vs. America: Lister GT1, Jaguar XJ220 GT, TVR T440R, Viper GTS, Corvette C5-R and a Saleen Mustang SR7).
And my final 2 cents, can they at least give some real decent life times for tyres. For exampl I think it was just stupid the way in GT3 you'd do a Endurance race like Laguna Seca 200 and the majority of the field (excluding the Jillet which pitted on lap 37 etcs.) would pit every 7 laps :irked: :odd: !!!!! Thats means they do something like 12 pit stops in a race?!?!? Now that isn't realistic!!! In GT races which last for something like 4 hours they only do at most like 4 scheduled pit-stops. And the frequency of pitstops in GT3 I think was only down to the rate of wear on the tyres. I've just quickly done Laguna 200 in an XJ220 race car, and found on hard tyres, that I needed to pit every 10 laps, because they'd get mullerd by then. So that's meen I'd do a total of about 10 pitstops during the race?!?!? Eeesh!!!
Anywayz, those are my thoughts.
 
Originally posted by lowlux1
Um bathurst is a road circut, not a race track. fully public road, just closed of at both ends of the pit straight on race days. the sandtraps and advertising and stuff is there all year round. only place u cant drive is pit lane. and yeah im an aussie and ive done it.
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Even though it's open to the public regularly, it's a purpose built race-track.
It's not a fully public road, it's quite often closed off for testing and private use.
 
if its a purpose built race track why are there houses around it? and if you look in a V8 supercar race guide, whitch u may have living in australia, you will see that you cant have private testing on the track because it IS a public road somtimes closed for raceing.
 
Famous Spa Francorchamps track also has an part that is run on a public road.

My hopes also goes to Bathurst. Spa would be nice too. Long Beach too (F355 anyone?). All of that tracks has the looks appropriate for GT. And that matters too.
 
It was built by the Bathurst City council - so technically it is owned by the public, but it was built as a race track, and misses the ameneties of a standard road, in addition to have a different type of surface to normal roads.
 
Yeah, alot of the Le Mans track is public roads, the stadium section round the home straight and the pit lane is part of a smaller race track call Arnage, the actual name of the Le Mans circuit is the Circuit de la Sarth.
 
I don't know about nowadays, but it was so public that if you fancied a walk you could walk round to the back of the circuit, and with a little treck through the city and woods get to the mulsanne straight. My old man did it in 1987, and at 12 o'clock at night the marshals don't really give a monkeys about a single bloke just watching the cars and doing nothing else. That was the last year of the entire straight, before they broke it up with chicanes. Though nowadays, I've heard that soo many people try it they do chuck you out with police.
 
Your not allowed to go round when the race is on, you can drive most of the circuit for free anytime exept when the LeMans is on, ther only bit that is'nt public is the race track part round the pit straight which is used for other events through the year.
 
Well they only actually close the track off the day before any of the cars go on the track and even then, I've been on parts of the track on the Friday, the day before the race. But then again that was 1998 so they might have changed it now.
 

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