If Papyrus wants to really get the juices flowing in us vintage racers what
about a fantasy field including a range like a Ferrari 250 TR, Porshe RSK,
Birdcage Maser, Jag XKSS, Lotus XI. Then another version going into the rear
engine cars. Just to add to the excitement why not use the old road course at
Elkhart Lake. Can't you just imagine blasting past Seibkien's in a Ferrari
250 TR? Well, back to reality, I have yard work to do.
>Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:51:59 -0700
>From: oldirish@ix.netcom.com
>Sender: owner-vintage-race@triumph.cs.utah.edu
>To: vintage-race@autox.team.net
>Subject: Games?
>
>Papyrus, now a part of Sierra makes both NASCAR and IndyCar Racing II.
> Currently, only IndyCar isavailable in a
>Mac version. In November, they will introduce Nascar 2, which will have
> all of the graphic enhancements that
>ICRII has over NASCAR and more. It will be available in Mac. To download
> demo versions of these racingsims,
>go to Sierra's web site at http://www.sierra.com/ There is also a new F1
> simulator out which is said to be very
>good.
>
>I got turned on to and started palying these sims about 5 months ago.
> They are great and do require a learning
>curve for driving ability as well as car set up. For those not familiar
> with the sims, the cars can be run with asetups
>that come with the sim, or as in the case of IndyCar, you can adjust such
> things as front and rear spoiler angle,
>gearing, brake bias, front and rear sway bars, it goes on. There is a
> large community of sim players out there and
>there is a newsgroup specifically for racing sims at rec.auto.siumlators
>
>The bets results and most satisfaction I feel comes from using a wheel and
> pedal set. A reasonably good one is
>the Thrustmaster T2 and cost about $99 at places like Circuit City. The
> sims themselves cost about $49.
>Thrustmaster is coming out in the next couple months with a force feedback
> wheel, which will transmit road feel.
>Something current wheels don't do.
>
>There is a wide variety of car sets created and available for download at
> varios websites. Car sets for IROC,F1,
>British Touring Cars, as well as constant updates of car paint schemes in
> both NASCAR and IndyCar as the
>season progresses. I am currently involved in a series patterned after
> the British Touring Cars, called the Internet
>Touring Car Championship (I drive a Jaguar XJR). There are converters
> available to allow racing of NASCAR'son
>IndyCar tracks and vice versa. If you are interested in checking out
> racing sims, visit my web page. I have linksto
>our series (new dirvers welcome), as well as IndyCar and NASCAR sims.
> E-mail me if you want more info, ortalk
>about sim racing.
>
>We now return you to your regular programing.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Jerry Liudahl
>
>oldirish@ix.netcom.com
>Purple Lips/Lip Service Racing Home Page:
>http://www.netcom.com/~oldirish/lip_service.html
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