Round 4 Rouen 1955

Rouen-Les-Essarts was a 6.542 km (4.065 mi) motor racing circuit in Orival, near Rouen, France.

From its opening in 1950, Rouen-Les-Essarts was recognized as one of Europe's finest circuits, with modern pits, a wide track, and spectator grandstands. The street circuit (which ran on public roads) had a few medium straights, a cobbled hairpin turn (Nouveau Monde) at the southernmost tip, and a few blind corners through a wooded hillside The appeal was greatly enhanced by the climb from Nouveau Monde at 56 metres to Gresil at 149 metres, with gradients over 9%.

Rouen hosted five Formula One French Grand Prix races, the last one in 1968 resulting in the tragic burning death of Jo Schlesser, at the fast downhill Six Frères curve. The circuit continued to host major Formula 2 events until 1978, after which it was used for various French Championships.

The circuit had a number of different configurations. From its construction in 1950 until 1954 it was 5.1 km (3.2 mi) in length. In 1955 major works increased the circuit's length to 6.542 km (4.065 mi), its most famous configuration. Construction of a new Autoroute across the circuit saw a new section of track built and the length of the circuit reduced to 5.543 km (3.444 mi). Finally, in 1974 a permanent chicane was built at Six Frères and this part of the circuit was renamed Des Roches.

The circuit was closed down in 1994 due to economic and safety reasons, since it is very hard to organise a race on public roads if modern safety standards are to be met. In 1999, following the circuit's closure all evidence of area's racing past was demolished, including grandstands, pits, Armco and track signs. The cobbled Nouveau Monde hairpin was also asphalted but it is still possible to drive around on the original circuit configuration.

The name "Les Essarts" comes from a village, which was included into the commune of Grand-Couronne in 1874.

Footage from an earlier F1 1979 championship

 

That's a shame. I was thinking of doing the 1 stopper again, without mistakes on lap 1 this time. I do think it's possible to win like that if you have the pace.

 

Guys we have an issue with the Bremgarten54 track on the server ? has anyone ever raced this track on-line before? it keeps crashing the server when I try to launch it ..

 

Rob is on American timezone, he will see it tonight.

 

Thanks Andrew ,Tried yours & same issue .. is this track maybe 32bit only ? our servers are 64bit.
2 days of Ken & myself trying to solve this . but no joy atm ..

 

We will forget about Bremgarten and go with Rouen 1955. Official notification is coming up soon.

 

We all have 64 bit OS's unless your on a real old potato . All the sro servers run out of BIN64 , I believe this track is only 32bit so it needs to run on a server that is BIN32 ,pretty much obsolete theses days with all the DX11 + gpx upgrades in rf2 .. rf2 will run with 32 but why ? lol …

 

The track for round 4 has been changed to Rouen 1955.

Unfortunately, we couldn't get Bremgarten to work on the server. My apologies for that to anyone who has been practising the track.
We selected a very good alternative: Rouen 1955. A track that has proven itself and is also very fitting for the DNF series.
https://www.simracingonline.co.uk/racing/eventinfo/849

See you on track!

 

I'm happy with my Tyrell. Thanks again Paul!