Sergio asked me to release this and what a great pleasure it is to do so.  ;)

Sergio Loro said:
Monsanto Park - 1959 version.

REAL TRACK

Track Location: near Lisboa, Portugal

Track Type : Public Roads
Track Length : 5.44 kms.- 3.38 mi.
Track Num. Turns : 13
Track Year : 1953-1960

Track Editors :
Sergio Loro
Robert Zeugin
Greg Liebzeit
Carsten Meurer
Ginetto
Phil Neville
Paul Skingley
Nils Ruwisch

Special Thanks to

Ron Percival for his support trough all this project, thanks Ron!!!!

John Bradley for his fantastic cover.




Editor Note I : I used some mips, 3dos and srb files from other's tracks.  Full credit to their authors.




Monsanto Park
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First race in this area was a hillclimb raced in 1910 on a section 1506 m - 0.938 mi long of Estrada de Pimenteira. Even there were more than 30000 spectators, this event was hosted only two more times, in 1913 and 1922. Serra de Monsanto (= Holy Hill) street track was used from 1953 to 1959 and it used also a section of Lisbon-Cascais motorway. In 1959 it was a little shortened, but I don't know what changes were made. It hosted Portugal GP in 1954, 1957 (both for Sportscar) and 1959 (F.1). It was a dangerous circuit even according to 1950s standard because it was very bumby and uneven.
From 1961 to 1971 a shorter circuit was used, known as Monte Claros, because it was not possible to stop the traffic for a weekend on the motorway.
In 1980 there were rumors about a remake of the track in order to host a Portugal F.1 GP in 1982.
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1959 F1 Race
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1-Stirling Moss
2-Masten Gregory
3-Dan Gurney
4-Maurice Trintignant
5-Harry Schell
6-Roy Salvadori
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Thanks to:

GPL Mirror Zone for hosting this track. http://srmz.net/

GPL Repository for hosting "my" private forum. http://gplr.bcsims.com/

to the "Alternate GPL Track Database" http://gpltd.bcsims.com/

All people who made the tools to create tracks, 3dos, mips, lp files, altitudes, etc, etc.

All the GPL Community!!!

The RaceSimCentral forums.

www.m4driving.sm for hosting my previous tracks.

www.gplpp.com for letting me know about the latest GPL news.

The GPL Track Database and its manager Magnus.  Visit trackdb.d2g.com and submit your rating!!!!

Enjoy the drive...



SERGIO LORO and company


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monsanto_v101_GPL.zip

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