Real Classic Tracks?

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I was thinking as I was reading a book called Speedway: Auto Racing Ghost Tracks, wouldn't it be cool if they could recreate some classic tracks or it's variations? Not like Brooklands, because most of it is gone now, but like Linas-Montlhery, the Monza banking, or if possible, even AVUS. Or what about the old layout of the Fuji Speedway, with the 30 degree banking? And the EuroSpeedway Lausitz?
 
If you are interested in old race tracks then I have to plug a really old game for the PC - Really old Grand Prix Legends.

It has 500 or so classic tracks.

Clermont Ferrand
Dundrod
Goodwood
Solitude Ring
Crystal Palace
Avus
A Japanese guy did the layout of Fuji IF they had the budget to do the proper layout... rather than cutting it short.
The oval and road track of Monza (Just like in the film Grand Prix)
Montery has several iterations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHqaye9XlKM
Clermont Ferrand

The game is 14 (Fourteen) years old and had a fiendish difficulty learning curve but it has new mods (1965 - 1969 cars, 60's sports cars) for easier to drive cars and the track database of most of the classic tracks.

It would be fantastic if PD let out some sort of track building tools. Proper tools.

Then you could get the Targa Florio made...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_AIjocoIF4&feature=related

576 turns.... 44.75 miles...

not bad for amateurs really
 
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I still have my copy :)

Great game/sim, best simulation made for more than 5 years after. It wasn't until the physics of NASCAR 2003 that rivaled it. Then rFactor and GTR arrived.

I spent so much time driving that game I could feel every bump in the tracks. I only went negative on Monza and the Glen.
 
Really - Spa Francorchamps was pretty easy to beat and Alison Hines rather "human" hotlap of Silverstone I always felt was an easy one to beat. I Bet at the time she didn't think people will be talking about this beta test lap 15 years later
 
I would like to see the old Riverside California track in a game. That was the track I saw my first race at. Then they just need to put Sears Point (Infineon) back in... and maybe Monterey... and Long Beach. At least Laguna Seca is still in, one of only 2 tracks I have actually driven on.
 
Oh god-damn yes! I have driven a lot of race tracks no longer open for racing, such as the original Spa and Brno circuits, so to have those in GT5/GT6 would be utterly awesome! I have read that book too, I am a big racing historian so old race tracks are a big thing for me. To have Riverside in the game would be the ultimate for me, the traditional home of big-banger sports-car races, now a f...... shopping mall, goddamn! Americans moan about not having history, that's 'cos they're always building over it!
 
Danze1984
That's what I thought when I read the title. Think redbull own it now.
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Yes, they do thank goodness, it won't become a new runway or shopping mall now. BUT, it ain't a patch on the original Oesterrichring circuit, I can give you my googlemaps link for the original layout if you're into racing history.
 

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