July 23rd, 2023                 	    		KIRKISTOWN
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Title           : Kirkistown 1999, Northern Ireland, UK
Filenames       : Kirkistown_Northern Ireland_1999.dat
		  21 JAM files
		  Gp2form.txt (this file)
Author          : Antonio Pessoa
Email Address   : ap1981@gmail.com

Other works     : Several
                 
Description	: Kirkistown, a flat small club circuit near Northern Ireland's coast, the sole permanent racing track in that UK home nation.
		  Antonio's updates: new cc-line, new scenery textures, a little more trackside objects, and other little improvements on Warren's original Kirkistown.

Thanks to	: Geoff Crammond for Grand Prix 2
                  Paul Hoad for the Track Editor
		  Andreas Schulz for grandprix2.de, textures and objects from other tracks
		  Roberto Remedio for several GP2 tracks and some GP2 tips (and recently, for the grandprix2.racing website)
		  Tim de Klein and Thomas Kost for several GP2 tracks and textures
		  Michael Raballand for recent GP2 tracks
		  Franco Gllen for testing my previous GP2 tracks before the release
		  A special tranks to all members of GP2 Community!
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* Construction *

  Base		: Kirkistown by Warren Jenks
  Editor used	: Track Editor, Object editor and Jam Editor
  Known Bugs	: Some ribbons flashing or wrapping, in the exit of turn 5 and on the left at the last turn. Nothing serious
  Build Time	: From the start to finish: 2 years and 3 months (!). I began this improvements on Warren's Kirkistown in early April 2021 (covid-19 pandemic and lockdown explains it all...), some more editing in mid-October 2021, and after a break of two years, finished in few hours during the fourth weekend of July 2023


* Installation *

1.
Please, extract the folder "KIRKIST" (and the JAM files in it) in your ..GP2/Gamejams directory.

2.
Extract Kirkistown_Northern Ireland_1999.dat to your ..GP2/circuits directory, and rename it as F1ct07 or any other (I developed the track in slot 07, but the track probably works well in other slots)

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

* Copyright / Permissions *
(c) Copyright 2023, Antonio Pessoa. You can use this track freely. 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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List of winners:
Don't need... you all know Kirkistown is a club circuit in Northern Ireland, it doesn't held any main international or British national series since its opening in 1953, neither when the circuit was improved in the 1970s and 1980s, and blah-blah-blah...

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Important information about the flag on the pit wall:

In my other recent British circuits as Knockhill, Pembrey, Anglesey, Jurby, Cadwell Park, Castle Combe and Mallory Park, all has a flag of the respective nation somewhere near the start-finish line or pit wall.

In Knockhill there is a Scotland flag in the pit straight, in Pembrey there is an Wales flag at the end of the pit straight, in Jurby a flag of the Isle of Man, in Cadwell Park a flag of England, and so on...

Well, and about Kirkistown? You should expect a flag of Northern Ireland in the track.

However, there is NO any official flag of the Northern Ireland. In soccer/football, FIFA uses for Northern Ireland a white flag with a red cross, similar to England's one. But, this is a flag with Unionist bias.

So, I chose a gold-and-red Ulster flag, due Northern Ireland sharing mostly of their territory of that traditional Irish province.

The Tourist Trophy motorcycle races in Northern Ireland, mostly in the road circuits of Clady and Dundrod, are called "Ulster Grand Prix".

Thus, aiming not to hurt feelings of eventual Grand Prix II players in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, or any other British home nations or elsewhere, and considering the political bias and the troubles some decades ago, this GP2 track has an Ulster flag where a Northern Irish flag would be expected.
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Antonio Pessoa (2023)