11-12-2019                                                			Version 1.1
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Title           	: Miami Bicentennial Park 1991 and 1995
Filenames		: Miami_Florida, USA_1991.dat
			  Miami_Florida, USA_1995.dat
			  Gp2form.txt (This file)
			  7 Jad files in "Miami" folder
			  8 Jad files in "Miami/1991" sub-folder
			  8 Jad files in "Miami/1995" sub-folder
			  convert.exe in each subfolder
Authors          	: Antonio Pessoa
E-mail			: ap1981@gmail.com

Description     	: Miami, one of the most iconic cities in U.S was place of several races in its streets since the early 1980's. Intermittently, a street circuit in Miami was used for IMSA GTP, Trans-Am, CART Indycar/ChampCar and FIA Formula E races, and currently there are talks between Miami city officials and Liberty Media for a new Miami street circuit for future Formula 1 races. But, it's still speculation. Thanks to Ralph Sanchez promoter, Miami held its first street circuit race in February 1983, a IMSA GTP sports car race in a tight 2,997 meters circuit around the Biscayne Boulavard south of the Freedom Tower. From 1983 to 1985 IMSA GTP held three Miami GPs in that tight circuit. In 1986, Ralph Sanchez and Miami city officials made an agreement to build a 3,014 meters semi-permanent street circuit into the Bicentennial Park, using as its longest straight the Biscayne Boulevard north of the Freedom Tower, and moved the IMSA Miami Grand Prix to there. In the same era, from 1985 to 1988, Ralph Sanchez was the promoter of CART Indycar races in Miami area, but that races was held in Tamiami Park street circuit, dozens of miles away from Miami downtown. The semi-permanent track in Bicentennial Park was a exclusive venue for IMSA sports cars races from 1986 to 1993, used as a anticlockwise circuit. Since IMSA faded its popularity in early 1990's, Ralph Sanchez searched new series for his Miami Grand Prix, like SCCA Trans-Am GT cars in 1994, and CART Indycar World Series in 1995. In 1993, Ralph Sanchez begun the construction of the new Homestead-Miami Speedway, in Homestead, several miles south of Miami. Months later, he got a contract with CART officials to move the Miami Grand Prix from sports cars to Indycars. In late 1994, construction work in Homestead-Miami Speedway wasn't finished, hence Ralph Sanchez and CART agreed to host the 1995 Miami Grand Prix in the Bicentennial Park semi-permanent street circuit, as used by IMSA in then last 8 years. But CART officials demanded several improvements in that circuit, for safety reasons. They demanded to change the circuit's direction from anticlockwise to clockwise, and due to this change was needed to set a chicane in Biscayne Boulevard right before a right-hander sweeping turn, and also move the apex of two turns: a tight right-hander turn in the entrane of Bicentennial Park, and a "hairpin" inside the Bicentennial Park. CART Indycar made its sole race in March 5th 1995 as the season opening, won by Jacques Villeneuve, starting his campaign for that year's Indycar title. Homestead-Miami Speedway became ready in late 1995, and for 1996 Indycar Miami Grand Prix move to that then brand new 1.5 mile oval, making Bicentennial Park's semi-permanent circuit a abandoned track in Downtown Miami shore. However, professional racing came back to Miami's streets some years later, with American Le Mans Series and CART ChampCar races in 2002 and 2003, this time branded as "Americas Grand Prix", since the "Miami Grand Prix" mark was a Ralph Sanchez's one, used in his IRL Indycar races in Homestead-Miami. Those Miami street circuit races was held in a 2.478 kms track in Bayfront Park, just few meters south of the previous Bicentennial Park track, using the Biscayne Boulevard as the pit straight, like in 1983-1985 track. For 2003, the Bayfront Park street circuit was reconfigured to a shorter one, with 1.851 kms. After 2003, by financial reasons, including the bankrupcy of CART, the Miami street circuit was once again abandoned. In March 14th 2015, FIA Formula E made its sole race in Miami, using a street circuit in Biscayne Boulevard exactly in the same part of the 1985-1995 track, but running around the American Airlines Arena (the home of NBA's Miami Heat), built in late 1990's in the same place of former pit lane and paddock of 1986-1995 Bicentennial Park semi-permanent track. Since 2015, there is no races in Miami Downtown. In 1999, Ralph Sanchez sold Homestead-Miami Speedway to ISC (NASCAR's tracks company), and he died in April 2013.

IMPORTANT:
The 1991 track is a anticlockwise circuit, with no chicanes. IMSA GTP held races there from 1986 to 1993, and Trans-Am once in 1994.
The 1995 track is a clockwise circuit, and has a tight chicane in the end of the long straightway. CART Indycar held a race there once, in 1995.

Other Works     	: Several :-) (more than 120 in almost 20 years!)
Thanks to       	: Paul Hoad for the Trackeditor, Object editor and Jam editor.
                  	  Geoff Crammond for making Grand Prix 2.
			  Andreas Schulz for grandprix2.de
			  Tim de Klein and Thomas Kost for previous GP2 track works.
			  Roberto Remedio for so much tracks.
			  Michael Raballand for recent GP2 tracks.
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* Construction *
Base            	: Mikael Olsson's Miami
Editor(s) used  	: Jam Editor, 
		  	  Track Editor,
			  Objecteditor,
			  MS Paint (XP)  
Known Bugs    		: Very few bugs, like some few fences flashing, some ribbons appearing in front of the fence if you spin, and the 1995 track pit exit appearing in front of the right wall/fence.
Build Time     		: Almost 2 years, from January 2018 (when I did little changes in Mikael's Miami) to December 2019 (when I did the rest, including the 1995 CART track, changing the circuit's direction)

* Installation *
1. 
(if you already have new tracks on the game jump to STEP 2): 
patch the game with a util that obliges the game to read the tracks
from the harddisk. These utils are gp2nocd or trakonhd. 
Search for one of them on the net and install it. This program will 
create a new directory called "circuits": you have to copy there 
ALL the 16 track files (F1ct01, F1ct02...........F1ct16)

2. 
Place the 'miami' directory from the ZIP file into the Gp2 'gamejams' directory. Pay attention if two sub-directories was created in 'miami': '1991' and '1995'. In each sub-directory, gotta to appear 8 JAD files. Please, run Convert.exe in both sub-folders, to convert the files in JAM files. And also, run Convert.exe in the main 'miami' folder, to convert the other 7 JAD in JAMs.

3. 
Place Miami_Florida, USA_1991.dat and Miami_Florida, USA_1995.dat files in the circuits directory. Slots 01 and 02 was recently tested for 1991 track, and slots 02 and 04 was tested for 1995 circuit, and the track run well in both. Others slots was not tested.

4. 
Start Gp2 and drive...........

* Copyright / Permissions *
(c) Copyright 2019, Antonio Pessoa. You can use this track free. Currently few people plays GP2, so, if you use it as a base to create other track, please, give me my credits. Just it.


* Disclaimer *
If your pc breaks, goes slow, or the files harm your machine it's not my fault!!!

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    THE IMSA GTP MIAMI STREET CIRCUIT WINNERS:

year	circuit				winner drivers			nat	car

1983	Biscayne Blvd. 2.97 kms circuit	Al Holbert			USA	March-Chevrolet 83G (Holbert Racing)
1984	Biscayne Blvd. 2.97 kms circuit	Brian Redman/Doc Bundy		ENG/USA	Jaguar XJR-5 (Group 44)
1985	Biscayne Blvd. 2.97 kms circuit	Al Holbert/Derek Bell		USA/ENG	Porsche 962 (Holbert Racing)
1986	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	Bob Wollek/Paolo Barilla	FRA/ITA	Porsche 962 (Bayside)
1987	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	E.Forbes-Robinson/Geoff Brabham	USA/AUS	Nissan GTP ZX-T (Nissan)
1988	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	Price Cobb/James Weaver		USA/ENG	Porsche 962 (Dyson)
1989	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	Geoff Brabham/Chip Robinson	AUS/USA	Nissan GTP ZX-T (Electramotive)
1990	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	G.Brabham/C.Robinson/Bob Earl	AUS/USA	Nissan GTP ZX-T	(Nissan Performance)
1991	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	Raul Boesel			BRA	Jaguar XJR-10  (Tom Walkinshaw Racing)
1992	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	Geoff Brabham			AUS	Nissan NPT 91A (Nissan Performance)
1993	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	Juan Manuel Fangio II		ARG	Eagle-Toyota Mk.III (All American Racers)
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    THE TRANS-AM MIAMI STREET CIRCUIT WINNERS:

year	circuit				winner driver		nat car

1994	Bicentennial Park anticlockwise	Tommy Kendall		USA Ford Mustang
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    THE INDYCAR MIAMI STREET CIRCUIT WINNERS:

year	circuit				winner driver		nat car

1995	Bicentennial Park clockwise	Jacques Villeneuve	CAN Green (Reynard-Ford-G)
2002	Bayfront Park (2.478 kms)	Cristiano da Matta	BRA Newman-Haas (Lola-Ford-F)
2003	Bayfront Park (1.851 kms)	Mario Dominguez		MEX HVM (Lola-Ford-F)
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    THE AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES MIAMI STREET CIRCUIT WINNERS:

year	circuit				winner drivers			nat	car

2002	Bayfront Park (2.478 kms)	Emanuele Pirro/Frank Biela	ITA/GER	Audi R8 (Audi Sport North America)
2003	Bayfront Park (1.851 kms)	Johnny Herbert/J.J. Lehto	ENG/FIN	Audi R8 (Champion Racing)
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    THE FIA FORMULA E MIAMI STREET CIRCUIT WINNERS:

year	circuit				winner driver		nat car

2015	Biscayne Blvd. 2.17 kms circuit	Nicolas Prost		FRA Spark-Renault SRT 01E (Renault e.DAMS)
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Notes: 

1) This GP2 version is about the 1986-1994 anticlockwise and 1995 clockwise circuits.

2) The older Bicentennial Park version for GP2 was made by Mikael Olsson, almost 20 years ago, with little scenary (basically with original Adelaide's scenary), and using the 1986-1994 anticlockwise track layout.
URL for the Mikael Olsson's Miami GP2 track: http://grandprix2.de/Strecke2/USA/miamigp.zip

3) The anticlockwise Bicentennial Park semi-permanent street circuit had a temporary chicane in its first IMSA races, in the same place of the 1995 clockwise chicane. The temporary chicane was removed few years later. In 1990 and 1991, a shortened Bicentennial Park street circuit was home of two AMA Superbike motorcycle races, using the circuit in clockwise direction for safety reasons. Both circuits has no GP2 version.

4) The Bayfront Park street circuit has its own GP2 version, converted from GP3 to GP2 by myself in early 2009.
URL for 2002 Bayfront Park GP2 track (2.478 kms): http://grandprix2.de/Strecke2/USA/miami-bayfront-park_2002_ap.zip

5) The Tamiami Park street circuit also has its own GP2 version, fully made by myself in early 2009.
URL for 1985-1988 Tamiami Park GP2 track: http://grandprix2.de/Strecke2/USA/tamiamipark1987_ap.zip

6) Homestead-Miami Speedway oval also has its own GP2 version, made by AAS and myself in 2008. It's the reconfigured 1.5 mile 0-shaped oval, used by several series since late 1997, including NASCAR and Indycar. In the first two years, from late 1995 to mid 1997, Homestead-Miami Speedway (then "Miami-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex") was a 4 turns rectangular 1.5 mile oval. For safety reasons, after a fatal accident in a NASCAR Truck Series race in March 1997, owner Ralph Sanchez and his partners decided to reconfigure the oval in the 1997 summer.
URL for Homestead-Miami Speedway GP2 track: http://grandprix2.de/Strecke2/USA/homestead_APAS.zip

7) There are no GP2 versions for IMSA 1983-1985 Miami street circuit.

8) Also, there are no GP2 versions for Formula E 2015 Miami street circuit.

9) Ultimately, there are no GP2 versions for future Formula 1 Miami street circuit.
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2019, Antonio Pessoa - Brazil
