January 19th, 2020                                                		Version 1.0
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Title           	: Wellington 1996 (street circuit), New Zealand
Filenames		: Wellington_New Zealand_1996.dat
			  Gp2form.txt (This file)
			  14 Jad files
			  convert.exe
Authors          	: Antonio Pessoa & Tim de Klein
E-mail			: ap1981@gmail.com
Description     	: In early 1985 the New Zealand's capital, Wellington, set a 2.5 kms (1.54 mile) street circuit in its Port area for touring car races. A new 2-race summer series was going to begin, Nissan Sport 500 (from 1986 to 1993 renamed as Nissan Mobil 500), with the first race in Wellington street circuit, and the final race in Pukekohe Raceway, near Auckland. This series had the intention to bring the international touring car drivers and stars to New Zealand's summer during the European winter. The first race was successful, despite some safety concerns about the track. The 1986 event was indeed the first international one, alongside some improvements on the track safety, attracting major touring car drivers from ETCC. After another successful event in early 1987, the organizers got the inclusion of the street circuit in the new World Touring Car Championship for October 1987. The original 2.5 kms circuit was extended to 3.228 kms (2 miles), and the WTCC race was a success. However, the championship properly was a failure and descontinued for 1988. In that year, the Wellington 500 was part of the "Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship", a series with races in New Zealand and near countries, like Australia and Japan, attracting European cars and drivers. From 1989 to 1992 the Wellington street race was part of Nissan Mobil 500 series in New Zealand, still attracting the international cars and drivers. For 1993 the circuit was changed to 2.672 kms (1.65 mile) due developments in Wellington Port area. After a double-header international touring car in late 1994, the event was not held in 1995, and only held one more race in 1996, a non-championship Australian V8 Supercars. After 1996, new buildings and developments was made in that area, with no more enough room for a street circuit.
This GP2 track is about the 1.65 mile (2.672 kms) circuit from 1993 to 1996.



Other Works     	: More than a handful 
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 for Auckland (fictional track)
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* Construction *
Base            	: Microprose original Estoril
Editor(s) used  	: Jam Editor, 
		  	  Track Editor,
			  Objecteditor,
			  MS Paint (XP)  
Known Bugs    		: Nothing serious. You won't notice them.
Build Time     		: 3 days in mid-January 2020. I made the track layout, track heights, fences distances, cc-line, ribbons, and merged all with the fictional Auckland track made by Tim de Klein in mid-2000s.


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

3. 
Place the Wellington_New Zealand_1996.dat file in the circuits directory. It runs the best in slot 16, others slots was not recently tested.

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

* Copyright / Permissions *
(c) Copyright 2020, Antonio Pessoa and Tim de Klein. 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 our fault!!!

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    THE WELLINGTON 500 WINNERS:

year/m.	series		circuit	 winner drivers				nat 	car

1985jan	NissanSport 500	2.500m	Michel Delcourt/Robbie Francevic	BEL/NZL	Volvo 240T
1986jan	NissanMobil 500	2.500m	Peter Brock/Allan Moffat		AUS/CAN	Holden Commodore VK
1987jan	NissanMobil 500	2.500m	Peter Brock/Allan Moffat		AUS/CAN	Holden Commodore VK
1987oct	WTCC		3.228m	Klaus Ludwig/Klaus Niedzwiedz		GER/GER	Ford Sierra RS500
1988oct	APTCC**		3.228m	Emanuele Pirro/Roberto Ravaglia		ITA/ITA	BMW M3
1989dec	NissanMobil 500	3.201m	Emanuele Pirro/Roberto Ravaglia		ITA/ITA	BMW M3
1990dec	NissanMobil 500	3.201m	Emanuele Pirro/Johnny Cecotto		ITA/VEN	BMW M3
1991dec	NissanMobil 500	3.201m	Emanuele Pirro/Joakim Winkelhock	ITA/GER	BMW M3 Evo.
1992dec	NissanMobil 500	3.201m	Tony Longhurst/Paul Morris		AUS/AUS	BMW M3 Evo.
1993dec	NissanMobil 500	2.672m*	Owen Evans/Bruno Eichmann		NZL/SWI	Porsche 911 RS
1994dec	APTCC**		2.672m*	Joakim Winkelhock			GER	BMW 318i
1994dec	APTCC** 	2.672m*	Tim Harvey				ENG	BMW 318i
1995 				no race was held
1996dec	ATCC***		2.672m*	John Bowe				AUS	Ford Falcon

* This track lenght version for GP2
** Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship
*** Non-championship race for Australian Touring Car Championship (future V8 Supercars)
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Antonio Pessoa & TdK, 2020

