Fuji Speedway 2007 V1.3.1 - RACE07 Download

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Fuji Speedway is a race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The circuit hosted the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix in 2007, after an absence of 30 years, replacing the Suzuka Circuit. Following both poor ticket sales and even worse weather it was decided by FOM that the FIA Japanese Grand Prix would be shared between Fuji Speedway and Suzuka on alternate years with Suzuka holding the next race on Sunday, 4 October 2009. Fuji Speedway is owned by Toyota Motor Corporation.

 

Built from scratch.
This is not a conversion but built from the ground up, based on photos and some onboard footage.

If you put your onboard footage online I more likely than not saw and used it as reference so my thanks go out to you.
For the corner radii I used the official track map and the corner names which are conveniently named after their respective radius. The elevation was modelled after the afore mentioned onboard videos and educated guesses.
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I put a lot of work (about three months worth) and nerves into this track, so I wondered if I should ask for donations to make up some of that time.
But in the end it became clear to me that I'm not doing this for donations but because a) I like to get creative and b) to give people something to have fun with.
If you want to say "thank you" and can afford it, please send me a postcard of your hometown. My adress is:
Dennis Grebe
Spittaler Straße 50
28359 Bremen
Germany

You're in no way obliged to send a postcard, but if I got some postcards out of this project I'd be happy. :)
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I had to make some design decisions concerning the fps the track would give and the time I had to put in.
Initially, for example, I intended to model Mount Fuji  in 3d, while now it is a purely two dimensional background image.
For the trees I went with several "rows of trees",rather than more of the the diamond shaped trees topreserve performance.
Other compromises include the surrounding mountains.
I used a vaguely similar mountain landscape instead of modelling accurately the depth of the mountains surrounding the real track.
Same thing with the trees. They are not 1:1 copies of their real counterparts but, at least to me, similar enough to pass first judgement.
So enjoy the track as it is.

Considering my restrained ressources without being able to fly to Fuji and gather all the material I'd need for a perfect track, I guess this one's a pretty good try.
The most accurate thing about the track is the track surface and that's what counts foremost I guess.
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With v1.0 of this track you may post texture or other updates for this track as you wish, but do NOT redistribute the whole updated track.
I included a subfolder "update" which will be checked
for files before the standard GMT/Maps folders so if you create an update to this track, please put your updated files into the
Locations\F107_Fuji\F107_Fuji\update folder to avoid overwriting the original files.

If you're in doubt about updating the track, please email me.
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Built by:

Dennis Grebe
dgrebe@vf1league.com

Thanks to:
- Itay Rousso and Tom Oliver
- Takuya Sakata and Keita Kanno
 For supplying some great photos!
- Steve (cobraGT)
 For beta-testing, opinion and fixing the lights
- Julien
 For beta-testing

Enjoy!
27th October 2007

File Size:

19.6 MB

Downloads:

884

File Version:

1.3.1

File Author:

Mojo66

Submitted On:

04 May 2009

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