The 70s was the great era for Sportscar Prototypes endurance racing. There was lots of famous races that were run for 100-500km or even 12-24h all over the world. It was the time of big-engine high powered cars whose constructors had just learned how to make use of aerodynamics.
And this the era of the famous Porsche 917, who was the base and backbone of Porsche becoming a legend on every race track. The 917 was basically build only to make Porsche for the first time win the Lemans 24h - and it did. And more, much more. It did win that much races that
One of Porsche's fiercest competitors was Ferrari and its 512. Engineered even before the 917 came to life, it's more developed versions could sometimes beat the 917s. Both cars are outstanding race cars that represent the early 1970s endurance racing perfectly. Beautifully shaped bodies, with aerodynamics more been guessed than (like today) computed. Very high powered, running on incredibly wide tires, with almost zero down force - a challenge for each driver
Grand Valley:
Track facts: 2.8 Miles/4.5 KM This is a conversion by Smoke from the rFactor track by Ewan (Uzzi) Chalker, a scratch built track inspired by the track for Gran Turismo 1. This is the Long version of the prior Grand Valley East.
Check it out !
http://speedsims.net/SCP/SCP_index.html
The Mod and Track have been a long time coming for Smoke and myself. ;D
It's one install for both the SCP and Grand Valley
Hope you enjoy it as much we did in creating it!!
Dave & Smoke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbv_9KKBtQc
