21-01-2020                                                			Version 1.0
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Title           	: Dakar Baobabs, Senegal
Filenames		: Dakar Baobabs_Senegal_2008.dat
			  Gp2form.txt (This file)
			  15 JAD files
			  Convert.exe
Authors          	: Roberto Scandura & Antonio Pessoa
E-mail			: ap1981@gmail.com
Description     	: The African continent has no much tradition in motor racing outside the Southern Africa countries. The Western Africa had few races in the past, and Dakar, capital of Senegal, is one of the places in the region with some history in racing. In the 1950s Dakar held a sports car race in a 10.4 kms (6.46 miles) street circuit, during a time when Senegal was a French colony. However, the Senegalese capital is more famous as the finish place of the World's most important rally cross-country: Dakar Rally. From January 1979 to January 2007, with the exception of 1992, Dakar was the place where the drivers and riders, after several miles runned, got the checkered flag (in 2000 Dakar was the place where the rally started). The fame of Dakar transcending the place as just the finishing point of the most challenging rally in World: the rally itself carry the "Dakar" name until the present days, despite not passing by the city of Dakar since 2008 and being held in other continents outside Africa (South America from 2009 to 2019, Middle East since 2020). In the same 2008 year, when Dakar and Africa lost the rally due to safety concerns in neighbour countries, Senegal and Dakar opened a permanent racing facility: the "Circuit de Dakar Baobabs", placed near the Senegalese capital. The first Western Africa permanent racing circuit, built by Belgian Paul Libens, Dakar-Baobabs is a 4.7 kms (2.92 miles) clockwise circuit with 21 turns, homologated by FIA in 2009. It never held a international race, being active since than as a circuit for club meetings and home of the Senegalese motor racing, including the Dakar 6 hours race. This GP2 track is converted from the GP3 Dakar Baobabs track made by Roberto Scandura.


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.
			  Roberto Remedio for GP2 advice
			  Roberto Scandura for Dakar Baobabs GP3 track
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* Construction *
Base            	: Original Microprose Estoril
Editor(s) used  	: Jam Editor, 
		  	  Track Editor,
			  Objecteditor,
			  MS Paint (XP)  
Known Bugs    		: Not too much important bugs
Build Time     		: 7 years! I started to convert GP3 Dakar Baobabs in November 2012. The work became paused since then, and I resumed a slowly work in late December 2019 to finish the scenery in mid-January 2020.

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

3. 
Place Dakar Baobabs_Senegal_2008.dat file in the circuits directory. Slots 14 and 16 was tested, and the track run well. Others slots was not tested recently.

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

* Copyright / Permissions *
(c) Copyright 2020, Roberto Scandura & 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 us our 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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Antonio Pessoa & Roberto Scandura, 2020
