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Track name: Tennessee Half Mile Arena
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Based on Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee.
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A half-mile, steeply banked paperclip design race track, opened in 1961.
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It currently hosts several NASCAR race weekends annually.
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Note: the banking on Bristol has long been disputed. They had
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advertised it as 36 degrees, however nowdays it is claimed to have
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'only' 26-30 degrees banking. One of the resources says:
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"While the turns are still advertised at 36 degrees of banking,
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the banking in the corners appears to be 22 degrees in the
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bottom groove, 25 in the middle, and 27 at the top of the wall.
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These measurements were determined using a digital
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angle finder and a level."
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(http://www.truckseries.com/cgi-script/NCTS_07/articles/000119/011988.htm)
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Such a track profile - an elliptic track - is not available in
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Speed Dreams / TORCS, so I had to make a tough decision:
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I decided to have them at 28 degrees, as a mean average :)
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The straights are 6-10 degrees, so I've set them to 8 degrees.
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Note #2: Pits on BMS are tricky. In reality, both straights are used
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for pits, but in Speed Dreams / TORCS we cannot handle that situation.
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So only one pit area is designed, but the entry/exit path to it is
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unusually long, starts/ends in the opposite straight. However, the track
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is so short that a decent entry path is needed for the robots.
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Credits:
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-Haruna Say for the idea of more speedways in Speed Dreams
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Thanks to:
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-Speed Dreams team http://speed-dreams.org
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-Google Maps
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-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Motor_Speedway
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-http://www.bristolmotorspeedway.com/
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-http://www.nascartrack.com/BRISTOL_MOTOR_SPEEDWAY.html
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-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhsYhg70C8 (Cam positioning)
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License:
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All original XML, PNG, XCF, JPG, AC, ACC, RGB files for this track are:
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Copyright 2011 Gabor Kmetyko <kg.kilo@gmail.com>
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Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute,
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and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License
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http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
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Textures mostly originated from other Speed Dreams tracks:
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