01-01-2020                                               			Version 1.1
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Title           	: Bulawayo (Breedon Everard Raceway), Rhodesia (up to 1980), Zimbabwe (since 1980)
Filenames		: Bulawayo_Rhodesia_1970.dat
			  Bulawayo_Zimbabwe_2008.dat
			  Gp2form.txt (This file)
			  20 JAD files
			  Convert.exe
Authors          	: Antonio Pessoa
E-mail			: ap1981@gmail.com

Description     	: Alongside South Africa, the neighbour country, Rhodesia began its golden age in motor racing in very early 1960s, with the Rhodesian Grand Prix as part of the South African Formula One Championship. On those years, Rhodesia had a lot of drivers and riders, some of them successful in Europe, like Ray Amm in early 1950s in MotoGP, the 1961 MotoGP champion Gary Hocking, and another motorcycle champion, Jim Redman. Another Rhodesian was sucessful in a Formula One race, John Love, 2nd place in 1967 South African Grand Prix, but he would competed basically on races in Southern Africa. Several drivers bought Formula One cars to compete in the South African, Rhodesian and Mozambican circuits, making the South African F1 a very fast series. The Rhodesian Grand Prix begun as part of the South African Formula 1 in 1960, held in a temporary circuit in a airfield near the capital Salisbury (currently, Harare), the Belvedere Airfield. In 1961 the Rhodesian Grand Prix moved from Salisbury to the second largest Rhodesian city, Bulawayo. In Bulawayo, the national GP found its home for 10 consecutive years in another airfield, James McNeillie Airfield in Kumalo neighbourhood, as a temporary circuit. After those years of consolidation, Bulawayo's community joined forces to built a permanent race track for the Grand Prix, and in 1970 was opened the Breedon Everard Raceway in Bulawayo, a very fast circuit! The 1971, 1972 and 1973 Rhodesian GP was held in Bulawayo's permanent track, but when the capital Salisbury opened its permanent track, Donnybrooke Raceway, the national GP moved to there in 1974. The political situation became harder in Rhodesia, and in the other Southern Africa "white regimes" like South Africa, Southwest Africa (currently Namibia), Angola and Mozambique. The independence of the Portuguese colonies after 1974 means the end of motor racing in Angola and Mozambique for a while, because that countries begun civil wars. South Africa was isolated in the international community in the early 1960s, but international motor racing didn't joined the boycott to the Apartheid regime until early 1986. Rhodesia was facing a unique situation: isolated by the international community due its "white regime" lead by Ian Smith, very similar to South Africa's Apartheid, Rhodesia had no wide international recognition to its independence in the 1960s, and in the 1970s a civil war was under way in the country, which the black guerrillas fought against Smith's white regime. Due to this difficult situation, and the decline of the South African Formula One Championship in the same years, the Rhodesian Grand Prix was last held in 1976. Bulawayo's permanent race track was used sporadically in the final years of the civil war, until 1980 when the black rule started in the country, which changed the name from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. Since than, Zimbabwe has local club meetings in its two permament racing tracks, Bulawayo's Breedon Everard Raceway and Harare's Donnybrook Raceway. Despite survived four decades of economic decline in Zimbabwe and a authoritarian regime of Robert Mugabe, motor racing in Zimbabwe still resists, but the country anymore reached international status in its races.
This GP2 track is about Breedon Everard Raceway in Bulawayo, the permanent race track build in 1970. A very fast 3,5 kms (2.17 miles) circuit. Two scenery was made for this track: a 1970's Rhodesian Grand Prix, and the track in its recent Zimbabwean look.


Other Works     	: More than 120

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.
			  Michael Raballand for recent GP2 tracks.
			  Emerson dos Santos for asking this track in 2008!

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* Construction *
Base            	: Original Microprose Estoril
Editor(s) used  	: Jam Editor, 
		  	  Track Editor,
			  Objecteditor,
			  MS Paint (XP)  
Known Bugs    		: Few bugs, like some fences flashing.
Build Time     		: 11,5 years! After months of asking from Emerson dos Santos, I made the track layout, cc-line and very basic scenery in less than two days in mid-2008. In late December 2019 I resumed the scenery work in this track up to complete it.

* 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 'bulawayo' directory from the ZIP file into the Gp2 'gamejams' directory.

3. 
Place Bulawayo_Rhodesia_1970.dat or Bulawayo_Zimbabwe_2008.dat files in the circuits directory. Slots 08 and 13 was tested, and the track run well. Others slots was not tested.

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

* Copyright / Permissions *
(c) Copyright 2020, 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 RHODESIAN GRAND PRIX WINNERS:

year	circuit					winner driver		nat car

1960	Belvedere Airfield (Salisbury/Harare)	Syd van de Vyver	SAF Cooper-Alfa Romeo
1961	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	Ernest Pieterse		SAF Heron-Alfa Romeo
1962	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	Gary Hocking		RHO Lotus-Climax
1963	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	John Love		RHO Cooper-Climax
1964	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	Paul Hawkins		AUS Brabham-Ford
1965	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	John Love		RHO Cooper-Climax
1966	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	Bob Anderson		ENG Brabham-Climax
1967	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	John Love		RHO Brabham-Repcco
1968	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	John Love		RHO Lotus-Ford
1969	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	Dave Charlton		SAF Lola-Chevrolet
1970	James McNeillie Airfield (Bulawayo)	Dave Charlton		SAF Lotus-Ford
1971	Bulawayo (Breedon Everard Raceway)	John Love		RHO March-Ford
1972	Bulawayo (Breedon Everard Raceway)	John Love		RHO Brabham-Ford
1973	Bulawayo (Breedon Everard Raceway)	Dave Charlton		SAF Lotus-Ford
1974	Donnybrook Raceway (Salisbury/Harare)	Ian Scheckter		SAF Lotus-Ford
1976	Donnybrook Raceway (Salisbury/Harare)	Roy Klomfass		SAF Ralt-Ford
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Antonio Pessoa, 2020