Road Atlanta 1970

This is an update for Dave Noonan's Road Atlanta track — his track is available at the Pits website
in the Dave's world section, or from it's European mirror the Norway pits.

In1969 Road Atlanta was carved out of the red Georgian clay. The first pro race was held when the big bangers of the Can–Am Challenge Cup series came to town. Vic Elford held pole in the oversized vacuum cleaner that was the Chaparral 2J and Sterling Moss was Grand Marshal. Denny Hulme and a long list of other drivers where caught out by the new and tricky track. In the end it was Tony Dean in his Porsche 908 who won the race.

I wanted to make the track look like it did back then.
I couldn't find the original event programme, but fear not. Included is a original programme with a 70's style poster feel. It features a photo from the actual 1970 Can–Am event. The photo is a part of Michael Keyser's & Balfour Walker's Speed Merchants Collection. Michael was kind enough to give me the permission to use the image. You can find the Speed Merchants Collection at his website www.autosportsltd.com

All of the new files have been built from scratch. The pitbuiding has a new look. The rusty Armco is replaced with chrome Armco. It was still new and shiny at the time. Further updates include new trackmaps, a dusty track surface, some new trees and a new horizon.

Installation, step 3 is optional

Locate your road atlanta trackdir, in most cases this will be C:\Sierra\gpl\tracks\roada
Copy the files to your road atlanta trackdir.
For the programme to display the correct number of turns, you need to open track.ini and replace the line track_num_turns = 4 with track_num_turns = 12

Acknowledgments

Dave Noonan for the track and all his other work, Mike Barber for providing some valuable feedback, Michael Keyser for the permission to use his image in the programme, the Road Atlanta staff, Mike Smith for all the 1970 photos and info on Road Atlanta, Tim Wheatley, Mark Beckman, Bruce M. Johnson, The US Pits, Klaus Hörbrand for Winmip, George M. Smiley for GPLSA, the GPLEA and all the other editors for their inspiring work & Papyrus for Grand Prix Legends.

Enjoy.

Downloads

You will need to download one of the texture sets and the Trackmap & programme to get the complete Road Atlanta 1970 update. My host has recently set a limit on filesize which forced me to separate the textures form the programme & trackmaps. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Full texture set 1.05 405KB
Geared towards high image quality. May cause a low framerate on a slower computer.
High–quality texture set 1.05 405KB
Same as the full version, but the textures don't have sub–images. That makes them display the most detailed version of it self. Basically it means sharper textures. May cause framehits on any computer.
Lite texture set 1.05 294KB
Geared towards speed at the expense of quality. It's designed for slower computers and online play.
Trackmaps & Programme cover 260KB
Trackmaps and the programme cover — screenshot.
Road Atlanta Popup–fix
Klaus Hörbrand has made a patch that fixed the popup at Road Atlanta and many other tracks. If you are using my Road Atlanta update, you should only copy roada.3do and _groove.mip to the Roada directory — his popup–fix will otherwise overwrite some of the graphics in my update.

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