Dijon-Prenois 1973- New track for Papyrus' Grand Prix Legends
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Title: Dijon-Prenois 1973
Archive: Dijonp73v1.zip
Date: 2006,februar 22nd
Author: Jacques Bossy
E-Mail: jacbossy@cegetel.net

Version
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1.0 - first version

A lite version is also available : Dijonp73v1lite.zip

Track short historic
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Dijon-Prenois track is located in the east of France (Bourgogne).
Launched of the project in 1968 by François Chambelland.
Beginning of construction in 1970.
Inauguration of "Stade Automobile de Dijon-Prenois" in 1972 with a lenght of 3,289 km. 
First race the 4th june 1972 (sport-prototypes european championship).
In 1973 (april, 15th) 1000 km race won by the Matra 670 of Henri Pescarolo and Gérard Larrousse.
First Formula One French Grand Prix in 1974. The race was won by Ronnie Peterson's Lotus. 
In 1975 the lenght of the track is increased to 3,801 km by adding the parabolic corner. 
The following year,Clay Regazzoni (Ferrari) won the non-championship Swiss Grand Prix.
Mario Andretti (Lotus) won the 1977 French Grand Prix .
First victory of Renault-turbo in 1979 with Jean-Pierre Jabouille. 
In 1981 (july, 5th) first victory of Alain Prost (Renault-turbo).
Second Swiss Grand Prix in 1982 won by Keke Rosberg (his first F1 victory).
Niki Lauda won for the McLaren team the last F1 Grand Prix in 1984.
In 1989-1990 F3000 and Sport-Prototypes world championship.
Since 1991 sportscars, trucks and historic races are held on Dijon-Prenois track. 
  
Installation
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To install, unzip the contents of Dijonp73v1.zip into a temporary folder and run "trackinstall.exe";
the track should install automatically.
Normally there is no problem for Voodoo users (I have made many tests with a Voodoo5 card) .
I hope you'll enjoy racing on this track.

Copyright Notes
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This track is free. It must be distributed without change.
My permission must be asked before to do any addons or changes to this track, or to convert it for other simulations.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks
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Thanks to all the people who have made the tools that I used to do this new track.
I hope to forget nobody and to make no mistake :
- Phil Flack for Gtkmaker, trk23dof, Mipman, Srbman, GtkAlt and Gpl Trackeditor (with Paul Hoad) 
- Paul Hoad for Gpl Trackeditor
- Peter Prochazka  for GplTrk
- Christian Wohlfahrt for OneTwo3DO.
- Jonas Matton and Martin Granberg for GplRa
- Nigel Pattinson for RpyToLp
- Francois Dubuc for LpEdit
- Klaus Hörbrand for WinMip2
- Dave Noonan for 3doEd
- Martin Granberg for Trackinstall
- Joachim Blum for TrkCamEdit
- John Bradley for his superb program.
- The GPLEA Team for its indispensable track creating tutorials.
- Olivier Grand for his very good french tutorial.
- Alain Bosco for his advices about groove, web page and many tests.
- Gilles Ressegat for aerial photography of the track.
- Simon Stobbart from "http://www.dixierunners.speedgeezers.com" for the great sky and horizons.
- Carsten Meurer (real driver) for many informations on track elevations and landscape, and many tests
- Bob Hund (real driver) for informations on pit-lane, and many tests.
- Ptisik (real driver) for his inboard video.
- Cyril for many datas and photographies of the track.
- Kanzo (Petteri Kantokari) for his feed-back after many tests.
- Marc Ostermann for his feed-back after many tests.
- Pascal Fourcade for his feed-back after many tests.
- Michel Vigneres for his very interesting photography collection of 1981 race.
- Steve for his tyre textures.
- All authors of miscellaneous textures from GPL and GP3 (trees, armco, fences, curbs ...).
- RSC and his forum : http://forum.racesimcentral.com/index.php
- Paryrus/Sierra for this great sim.

Nota about AI
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The "track.ini" file is built for the 67 mod
You will find an alternative "track.ini"(called "track69.ini") for the 69 mod with different
"dlong_speed_adj_coeff" and "AI fuel loading in liters per lap" because 69 cars are faster, and they have a higher fuel consumption.

If you find AI too fast or too slow, you can modify the value of "dlong_speed_adj_coeff" in the track.ini file.