mcmirande Denny Hulme Members PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip 1,358 posts Gender:Male Location:Tucumán, Argentina Interests:GPL, Ichthyology, Phylogeny Music (Zappa and Kuti are the best) Sim interest:GPL Posted Oct 18 2021 - 03:22 AM Hello ALL A new track for GPL is here: Bulawayo's Breedon Everard Raceway, located in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia in 1971). It means that we add a new country represented for at least one GPL track :) The idea started with a modification of Donnybrook that Brent Blackburn (Argyle68) made, to simulate Bulawayo's track. As most of the (for me) most difficult work was already done (i.e. horizon and mip files) by Brent, I started to do the remaining things, which were rather easy when compared with previous tracks in which I worked. Thus, results are already here. I never went to any place in Africa, including, of course, this track, so maybe everything is improvable, Thus, we're open to improvements, I want to thank Ginetto, Sergio Loro and Pablo Fernandez, given that I'm just putting in practice things that they patiently teached to me. Thanks all this GREAT GPL-er community, that is the biggest support to all of this Long-Live GPL!! Marcos. -------------------- README FILE -------------------- Breedon Everard Raceway (1969- ?) ============================ AUTHORS Marcos Mirande & Brent Blackburn REAL TRACK Track Location : Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (ex Rhodesia) Track Type : Racetrack Track Lenght : 4.072 kms. - 2.5308 miles. Track Num. Turns : 10 Track Year : 1969-1974 (this version) History of Breedon Everard Raceway Located in what was then known as Southern Rhodesia but what has since become known as Zimbabwe, Bulawayo's Breedon Everard Raceway opened in December 1969 as a replacement for the Kumalo airfield track, which was then the host circuit of the Rhodesian Grand Prix and Bulawayo 100 rounds of the South African Formula 1 Championship. The new 2.5235 mile long Bulawayo track was known by many locally as the Falls Road Circuit. The new track took its name in honour of British railway engineer Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Breedon Everard, who had been the general manager of Rhodesian Railways from 1958-63 and was also briefly acting President of the country on several occasions after the proclamation of the Republic of Rhodesia. The first event held was the 3 Hours of Bulawayo, which was the penultimate round of that year's Springbok Series for sportscars. The Springbok series attracted many top drivers to Southern Africa from Europe, running during the the European offseason, and would return to Bulawayo in 1970 and 1971, counting star drivers such as Brian Redman and Mike Hailwood among its champions. In 1970, the circuit would host its first Rhodesian Grand Prix for Formula 1 cars, and the following year would begin hosting both the Grand Prix and the Bulawayo 100 rounds of the South African F1 Drivers' Championship until the Grand Prix itself would move to Donnybrook Park in 1974. The complicated political situation in Rhodesia during the middle and late 1970's as Rhodesia transitioned to Zimbabwe meant that Bulawayo and its sister tracks in the country faded from international view. The decision was made to shorten the circuit to 2.161 miles in the mid-1970s by cutting out one the loops, reducing it to just eight corners. The circuit still remains open to various forms of club racing today. Layout, maps, programme, AI and details by Marcos Mirande textures and 3dos by Brent Blackburn Thanks to: Papyrus/Sierra for original game Peter Prochazka for GPLTrk Phil Flack for GTKMaker, TRK23DO, MipMan, SrbMan, GPLAnim, Sciss Paul Hoad for GPL Track Editor Christian Wohlfahrt for 123DO Klaus Horbrand for WinMip Anton Norup Sřrensen for Graced Strava for FB Adjust Neil McCollum for gplconvert Joachim Blum for TrkCAMEdit Gplunk4ever22 for Barry Thompson aka Bertram Francois Dubuc for GPL LP Editor Nigel Pattinson for RPY2LP,camedit,racecon and AI tutorials Martin Granberg and Bernd Nowak for GPL Track Installer Richard Neville (Panchine) and Jackseller some textures Ginetto for some helpful info testings for Pablo Sosa RacesimCentral forum SMRZ Forum 17.10-2021 Marcos Mirande & Brent Blackburn Email: mcmirande@gmail.com NOTE: everything in the track may be improved. We believe in the collaboration of the GPL community, so feel free to improve this track. If you need help or some not included files to recompile the track, just send me an email. Marcos. EDIT October 25 2021. Hello all, finally I could say we reached a final version from our side, which is herein published as v1.2. The layout is the same than in v1.0 and v1.1, thus all the available versions may safely coexist in the same server. I also upload a new "hishot" for GPL Weekly :) --------------------------------------------- Thanks all and Long Live GPL!!!!!! Attached Thumbnails bulawayo-hishot.jpg bulawayo.jpg Attached Files Attached File gpltrackinstallbulawayov1.2.zip 16.68MB 87 downloads Edited by mcmirande, Oct 25 2021 - 04:25 PM.