GPL Track database - ALL tracks with links, ratings...

Magnus T

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Jan 22, 2002, 10:43:36 AM1/22/02

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I've been hard at work creating the complete GPL online Track database
:-)

Find ALL GPL tracks with ratings, cover page pictures, maps, download
links, info on type of track, length, country, how hilly or flat it
is, who created it, description and comments and a lot more. You can
browse, sort, search...

http://magnust.d2g.com

If you want to create track set files (season.ini files) you just
search for the tracks you want and hit the button "Get season file"!
Works with GEM+ and all other track changer tools.

A basic Track Set Changer utility is also available for download on
the first page. To start GPL with a specific set of tracks you just
simply doubleclick on the track set file itself and go!
Some ready track set files are included like:
- "NO flat stuff - Fun road courses!"
- "Cosy Club Circuits"
- "All Ovals"
- "US tracks only"
- "Papyrus original tracks"
and so on....

Cheers!

/Magnus T

BTW: Please also come by and submit your ratings on all tracks you
know well! This is valuable info for everyone in the GPL community!

Ian Bell

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Jan 22, 2002, 10:46:35 AM1/22/02

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Hey, slick work indeed Magnus!
Congrats,

I'm just gonna pop a big link to it from SimBin.

Cheers

Ian

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Don Scurlock

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Jan 22, 2002, 1:13:28 PM1/22/02

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magn...@mail.com (Magnus T) wrote in
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Great work! Thank you very much. I knew I was behind on trying new
tracks but I didn't realize how far behind. Truly amazing how much work
people have put into GPL.

--
Don Scurlock
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Jens H. Kruuse

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Jan 22, 2002, 3:45:05 PM1/22/02

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"Ian Bell" <dontwantw...@ntlworld.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> Hey, slick work indeed Magnus!
> Congrats,
>
> I'm just gonna pop a big link to it from SimBin.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>

That is http://www.simbin.com ;-)

Ian Bell

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Jan 22, 2002, 4:51:53 PM1/22/02

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Why thank you Jens, I almost forgot...
;-)

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Stephen Smith

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Jan 22, 2002, 7:24:11 PM1/22/02

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Thanks billions and billions and billions, Magnus! An indispensible service
now that we have such a bounty to choose from. Great stuff. Well done!

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GMpartsguy

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Jan 22, 2002, 7:45:31 PM1/22/02

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oops.. i typed in sinbin by accident and got to a site with a picture of a
70's Chevy van with a button vinyl interior, shag carpets, and a waterbed.
:)

Stephen Smith

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Jan 22, 2002, 9:18:28 PM1/22/02

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Or not...

What have you got against Austria, Magnus? No O'ring, no Zeltweg?

No NASCAR Riverside? (A Noonan conversion from NASCAR Legends.)

No Portfast (without the grotesquely inappropriate "Festival" chicane). I
must admit I've lost count of Portland (and Sears) variants.

No Thruxton, fergoshsake?

And no ovals: Atlanta, Chsrlotte, Fontana, Gateway, Homestead, Indy,
Lausitz, Louden, Milwaukee, Michigan, Phoenix, Pocono, Texas, Trenton...just
to name a few?

And I might quibble with several of your turn counts: Suzuka, *four* turns?
(Even the Indycar circuit had more.)

It would be really nice--that is, useful--to have either the real-world lap
records, or the best GPL Alien times.

But, all in all, a sterling effort! (Which is not to say 'stirling' - VBG!)

--Steve

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The Carvalho Family

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Jan 22, 2002, 9:21:12 PM1/22/02

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Magnus T

Awesome work. Much appreciated, many times over.

Jim

Magnus T

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Jan 23, 2002, 4:48:04 AM1/23/02

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"Stephen Smith" <ssmi...@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message news:<U3p38.111749$bZ5.25...@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>...
> Or not...

> What have you got against Austria, Magnus? No O'ring, no Zeltweg?

All three versions are there. David Noonan's, And Ronnie's two
versions.
http://magnust.d2g.com/tracks.asp?Result=Condensed&Country=Austria

> No NASCAR Riverside? (A Noonan conversion from NASCAR Legends.)

Of course it's there. Did you really read the page properly ;-) Just
hit "R" and get both Noonan's and Mark Beckman's Riverside instantly.
http://magnust.d2g.com/tracks.asp?Result=Condensed&Name=River

> No Portfast (without the grotesquely inappropriate "Festival" chicane). I
> must admit I've lost count of Portland (and Sears) variants.

Portfast? Now this sounds interesting! What is this?

There are three Sears version on the site.
http://magnust.d2g.com/tracks.asp?Result=Condensed&Name=Sears

> No Thruxton, fergoshsake?

?? More interesting stuff! Tell me more!!

> And no ovals: Atlanta, Chsrlotte, Fontana, Gateway, Homestead, Indy,
> Lausitz, Louden, Milwaukee, Michigan, Phoenix, Pocono, Texas, Trenton...just
> to name a few?

All ovals are there! You probably missed to uncheck the "No ovals"
checkbox :-)
http://magnust.d2g.com/tracks.asp?Result=Condensed&Track_type=Oval

> And I might quibble with several of your turn counts: Suzuka, *four* turns?
> (Even the Indycar circuit had more.)

Hehe! It's what David Noonan entered into the track.ini! I must say
there are other tracks that have an odd count of turns in the
track.ini... I'd be MORE then happy to update the database if you send
me correct info!

> It would be really nice--that is, useful--to have either the real-world lap
> records, or the best GPL Alien times.

True! But I started with real world times but only got so far... I
don't have a good source to get 'em.

> But, all in all, a sterling effort! (Which is not to say 'stirling' - VBG!)

Thx :-)

/Magnus

Kevin Clark

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Jan 23, 2002, 6:14:15 AM1/23/02

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> > No Thruxton, fergoshsake?
>
> ?? More interesting stuff! Tell me more!!

Thruxton isn't out yet so I'm not surprised it's not on the list!

Magnus T

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Jan 23, 2002, 8:18:02 AM1/23/02

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Kevin Clark <ke...@hammer.imm.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message

> Thruxton isn't out yet so I'm not surprised it's not on the list!

:-)

My idea is to show generally available tracks only. So only betas that
are publicly available for download are included. I try not to include
tracks that are just graphical updates (night/day versions for
example). A few tracks break these rules though - tracks that I
decided where worth a mention anyway ;-)

/Magnus T

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Stephen Smith

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Jan 23, 2002, 8:27:12 AM1/23/02

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Opsies!

I went thru the list w/o unchecking the No Ovals box, then unchecked it and
went thru the alphabet & didn't see any. I probably missed Austria (all 3
of 'em) for some equally foolish/sloppy reason. And, as Kevin Clark points
out, Thruxton hasn't been released yet.

I can't remember who did Portfast, but as I say, it's Portland w/o the
egregious "Festival" chicane, the biggest impediment to motor racing since
Jack Fairman. No matter, Portland w/o the chicane isn't that much improved.
I didn't like it much in IndyCar Racing, CART Racing, or on ESPN.

If I ever have a lotta time on my hands, I'll count all the number of turns
@ all the tracks, although exactly what constitutes a turn at a track like
the Ring or Solitude isn't always obvious. It might be fun to *add up* the
number of turns and miles we have available to us--it's probably stretch all
the way from fulfillment to heaven.

Thanks for all yer work...and yer corrections to my ill-considered comments!

--Steve

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Joachim Trensz

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Jan 23, 2002, 12:52:32 PM1/23/02

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Hi Steve,

you've got to set the number of tracks to search to something above 123
(currently), else it limits the search to 64 tracks. Best is probably to
something above 256 if the new tracks keep coming at the speed they've come
in the last year ;-)

Achim

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Magnus T

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Jan 23, 2002, 1:40:39 PM1/23/02

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"Stephen Smith" <ssmi...@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message news:<QSy38.60305$Sf1.13...@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>...
> ....although exactly what constitutes a turn at a track like

> the Ring or Solitude isn't always obvious.

Agree! There is an ever ongoing discussion on how many turns the real
Nürburgring Nordschleife *really* has, hehe!

> It might be fun to *add up* the
> number of turns and miles we have available to us--it's probably stretch all
> the way from fulfillment to heaven.

Here's what the database answered :-)

Sum Of Length: 543,7183 miles
Sum Of Turns: 2041 turns
(from 154 tracks, but a few tracks are missing this data and have it
set to 0)

Avg Of Length: 3,57709407894737 miles
Min Of Length: 0,363 miles
Max Of Length: 19,573 miles

Avg Of Turns: 13,4276315789474 turns
Min Of Turns: 1 turn (which to me sounds a *bit* odd, hehe!)
Max Of Turns: 174 turns

LOL!!

/Magnus Thomé

Jonny Hodgson

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Jan 23, 2002, 2:31:27 PM1/23/02

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> Min Of Turns: 1 turn (which to me sounds a *bit* odd, hehe!)

Isn't that the Pantsring?

Jonny

Magnus T

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Jan 23, 2002, 5:18:07 PM1/23/02

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"Joachim Trensz" <atr...@teleline.es> wrote in message news:<a2mpof$128sh7$1...@ID-99765.news.dfncis.de>...

> Hi Steve,
>
> you've got to set the number of tracks to search to something above 123
> (currently), else it limits the search to 64 tracks. Best is probably to
> something above 256 if the new tracks keep coming at the speed they've come
> in the last year ;-)
>
> Achim

Yep!

Or you write "all" in it or just have it empty :-)

Stephen Smith

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Jan 23, 2002, 6:14:25 PM1/23/02

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Wow--half a million miles before the scenery starts to repeat....

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The Carvalho Family

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Jan 23, 2002, 11:00:54 PM1/23/02

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Is that half a million (543,7183 miles) or nearly 544 (543.7183 miles)? Commas,
periods!?! Whose numbering system are we using? Hint: stats for track length.

Jim

Olav K. Malmin

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Jan 24, 2002, 2:20:07 AM1/24/02

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"Jonny Hodgson" <jp_ho...@eRnEgMiOnVeEer.com> writes:

nah, the pantsring is an oval, and using the american system it got at
least four turns :)

--
Olav K. Malmin
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Magnus T

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Jan 24, 2002, 5:07:35 AM1/24/02

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The Carvalho Family <carv...@gvn.net> wrote in message news:<3C4F86F6...@gvn.net>...

> Is that half a million (543,7183 miles) or nearly 544 (543.7183 miles)? Commas,
> periods!?! Whose numbering system are we using? Hint: stats for track length.
>
> Jim

So what do you think about this one then:
Average track length: 3,57709407894737 miles

Hehe!

Sorry about the confusion, it's the way we use commas in my country :-)

///Magnus

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> Sum Of Length: 543,7183 miles

The Carvalho Family

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Jan 24, 2002, 8:44:39 PM1/24/02

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Accuracy to the 14th decimal place. Impressive. Is that down to parts of a mm then? ;-)

Jim

Chris Noto

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Jan 26, 2002, 9:12:13 AM1/26/02

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The Carvalho Family <carv...@gvn.net> wrote:

>Accuracy to the 14th decimal place. Impressive. Is that down to parts of a mm then? ;-)

I guess that depends if you live in a country that uses the metric system,
or not. <g>

Chris.

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Magnus T

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Jan 26, 2002, 9:47:38 AM1/26/02

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I'v updated the site to make it work properly with assorted Netscape
versions too. Was very easy.... NOT! If you had any odd problems I
hope they're all gone now.

:-)

Magnus T

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Don Scurlock

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Jan 26, 2002, 2:21:18 PM1/26/02

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magn...@mail.com (Magnus T) wrote in
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>I'v updated the site to make it work properly with assorted Netscape

Thanks Magnus. Useing Netscape 4.61 I was having a problem with the
alphabetic search line appearing vertically instead of horizontally.
Works fine now.

Uncle Fester

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Jan 26, 2002, 4:30:42 PM1/26/02

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Magnus T wrote:
>
> I'v updated the site to make it work properly with assorted Netscape
> versions too. Was very easy.... NOT! If you had any odd problems I
> hope they're all gone now.
>
> :-)
>
> Magnus T

Thank you.

--

Fester

"Is it that we need a nobrainer Linux desktop OS for people with no
brains or should people do a little more reading and smarten up?"
from alt.linux.mandrake NG

Magnus T

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Jan 29, 2002, 6:42:05 AM1/29/02

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Some tracks have been rated in the survey by very few people :-( So if
you have driven any of these tracks and you feel like coming by to
submit your opinions in the track survey, I - and a all in the GPL
community that visit my site - would deeply apreciate your opinions
added to the survey :-) http://magnust.d2g.com/

- Ridgehill
- Aldo Scribante Race Circuit
- Campalto
- Cilce
- Legion
- Campalto
- Croft 2001 and Croft short
- Harewood Hillclimb
- Liege
- Legends Track
- Bounty Beach Sports Complex
- Ladle
- Tomoika
- Hilverstone
- Misano Santamonica
- Daytona MK
- Indy F1
- Rock Island
- Hungaroring
- UK-US as One
- Maxland
- or any of the Rally Competition stages

THX!!!!!

/Magnus Thomé

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