06-02-2020                                                			Version 1.0
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Title           	: Homestead (Road Course), Florida, U.S.A.
Filenames		: Homestead (road course)_Florida, USA_2008.dat
			  Gp2form.txt (This file)
			  22 Jad files
			  convert.exe
Authors          	: Andreas Schulz (2008) & Antonio Pessoa (2020)
E-mail			: as@grandprix2.de & ap1981@gmail.com

Description     	: In November 1995 opened Miami-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex (currently Homestead-Miami Speedway), in Homestead, far-south Florida, near Miami, featuring a 1.5 mile rectangular oval and a infield road course. After few races, the quadrangular oval was revamped in mid 1997 as a 0-shaped 1.5 mile oval. The infield road course doesn't suffer any modification since the track's opening, and held some main series, like FIA GT in 1998 and 1999, and sports cars professional series like USRRC (split from IMSA) in 1998, and Rolex Grand-Am in the 2000s. Homestead road course also was a venue for testing Indycars in the 2000s, when IRL was in process of transition from a all-oval schedule to a mostly-road courses schedule. This GP2 circuit features only the road course, which uses parts of the oval's straights

IMPORTANT:
This is the road course of Homestead-Miami Speedway, near Miami, in South Florida.

Other Works     	: Several, by both :-)
Thanks to       	: Paul Hoad for the Trackeditor, Object editor and Jam editor.
                  	  Geoff Crammond for making Grand Prix 2.
			  Andreas Schulz for grandprix2.de and Homestead (oval scenery) 2008
			  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            	: 2008 Homestead-Miami Speedway oval by Andreas Schulz and A.Pessoa
Editor(s) used  	: Jam Editor, 
		  	  Track Editor,
			  Objecteditor,
			  MS Paint (XP)  
Known Bugs    		: Very few bugs, like some few fences flashing
Build Time     		: Few weeks in February/March 2008 (scenery on Homestead oval). The 2020 work on Homestead road course was around 3 days (track layout, cc-line, and adapting the oval's scenery to the road course)

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

3.
Run Convert.exe in the folder, to convert the 22 JADs in JAMs.

4. 
Place Homestead (road course)_Florida, USA_2008.dat files in the circuits directory. Slots 01 and 02 was recently tested, and the track run well in both. Others slots was not tested.

5. 
Start Gp2 and drive...........

* Copyright / Permissions *
(c) Copyright 2020, Antonio Pessoa & AAS. 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 FIA GT HOMESTEAD ROAD COURSE WINNERS:

year	winner drivers			nat	car

1998	Klaus Ludwig/Ricardo Zonta	GER/BRA	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM
1999	Paul Belmondo/Emmanuel Clrico	FRA/FRA	Chrysler Viper GTS-R

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    THE USRRC*/ROLEX GRAND-AM SPORT CAR HOMESTEAD ROAD COURSE WINNERS:

year	winner drivers			nat	car

1998*	James Weaver/Butch Leitzinger	ENG/USA	Riley&Scott-Ford MkIII (Dyson Racing)
2000	Didier Theys/Mauro Baldi	BEL/ITA	Doran-Judd Special (Doran Lista Racing)
2001	James Weaver/Butch Leitzinger	ENG/USA	Riley&Scott-Ford MkIII (Dyson Racing)
2002	Didier Theys/Mauro Baldi	BEL/ITA	Dallara-Judd LMP900 (Doran Lista Racing)
2003	Hurley Haywood/J.C. France	USA/USA	Fabcar-Porsche FDSC03 (Brumos Racing)
2004 I	Milka Duno/Andy Wallace		VEN/ENG	Crawford-Pontiac DP04 (Howard-Boss M'sports)
2004 II	Milka Duno/Andy Wallace		VEN/ENG	Crawford-Pontiac DP04 (Howard-Boss M'sports)
2005	Max Angelelli/Wayne Taylor	ITA/SAF	Riley&Scott-Pontiac MkXI (SunTrust Racing)
2006	Mike Rockenfeller/Patrick Long	GER/USA	Crawford-Porsche DP03 (Alex Job Racing)
2007	Bill Auberlen/Matthew Alhadeff	USA/USA	Riley-BMW MkXI (Sigalsport BMW)
2008	Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas		USA/MEX	Riley-Lexus MkXI (Chip Ganassi Racing)
2009	Joo Barbosa/Hurley Haywood	POR/USA	Riley-Porsche MkXI (Brumos Racing)
2010	Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas		USA/MEX	Riley-BMW MkXI (Chip Ganassi Racing)
2011	Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas		USA/MEX	Riley-BMW MkXI (Chip Ganassi Racing)
2012	Max Angelelli/Ricky Taylor	ITA/USA	Dallara/Corvette-Chevrolet DP01 (Wayne Taylor Racing)

* USRRC = United States Road Racing Championship, a sports cars series from 1963 to 1968, with a name revival after the split on IMSA GTP series in 1998. USRRC was followed by Rolex Grand-Am Sport Car from 2000 to 2013.
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Notes: 

1) 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
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2020, Antonio Pessoa & AAS