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***** THIS TRACK IS NOT TO BE CONVERTED TO rFACTOR, HEAT or any other format!

My tracks are built to reflect realistic lap times and speeds recorded at each venue. I do not add extra grip where it is not warranted, and I do not add extra grooves to tracks that do not have them in real life. NR2003 was designed by Papyrus to be a racing simulator, NOT AN ARCADE GAME. With that said your goal is to learn how to handle a car based on it's classification (cup, gns, cts or pta) and to adjust setups so that your racing experience and car, is the best that it can be.

These tracks (including the track.ini) are to remain as they were at the time of release. Permission will not be granted for the alteration of grip or grooves.

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Track Name: Riverside International Raceway
Loaction: Riverside, California
Track Length: 3.3-mile Road Course
Year Built/Opened: 1957 (Closed 1988)
Surface: Asphalt
Direction: Left and Right Corners
Turns: 8
Race laps (Full): 119
Release Date: 10/14/2020
Racing sim:  NASCAR Racing 2003 Season

Type: Real
Offline AI: Yes
Online racing: Yes
Pitstall Total: 43
Mod support: pta - cts - gns - cup

Opponent Strenght Suggestion: 100% to 103% (Going too high will have an undesirable effect on the AI in the esses)

Author: John Norton (Wild Kustoms & Cars)

OFFICIAL Distribution Web Site (s):

Wild Kustoms & Cars (Facebook) 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildkustomcars

Wild Kustoms & Cars (Weebly) - OFFICIAL Download site
http://wildkustomcars.weebly.com/

This track was tested between 95 and 105% opponent strength. Adjust the opponent strength setting to suit your needs.

Your experiences using this track may vary due to computer settings, video settings, personal settings in the game, the mod you are using, and your mods ratings. No two mods are the same and they all effect things differently especially regarding frame rates.

This is 2017 and most track builders take full advantage of newer computers systems by adding more 3do files and higher end graphics to give these track a more realistic look. If you experience lower frame rates you may have to adjust some of the visual settings in the game to improve those rates. Generally if you are are on the low end and are still getting anything from the high 20's to mid 30's you are still doing pretty well and should find racing to be acceptable. 

PLEASE REPORT ANY MAJOR BUGS NOT MENTIONED HERE. I WILL TRY AND FIX THEM IN A TIMELY MANNER.

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Wayne "Bowtie" Anderson for Haulers, pickup trucks, rollback, speakers
BOWTIE: http://www.ewracing.com/
Jason Skrocki for the original creation of the CAT120H.3do file. (construction grader)
SBP: http://www.saferbarrierproject.com/
PST: Animated flags
Klaus Hrbrand - WinMip 2.16.6
Nigel Pattinson - makeDat.exe
Christoph Muller - Cam Edit V.1.00b
traveller13- N2003DATter05

Programs used to create this track:

Sandbox
3ds max 8
Photoshop
3dSimEd
N2003DATter05
WinMip2
Cam_edit

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In the beginning it was originally called The Riverside International Motor Raceway. It was built in early 1957 by a company called West Coast Automotive Testing Corp.. The head of West Coast Auto Testing was a man by the name of Rudy Cleye, from Los Angeles, who had previously raced in Europe. However the building of the raceway met with funding difficulties early on and a businessman by the name of John Edgar provided a much needed cash bailout. This action prevented any halt in the track's construction.

The first weekend of scheduled races in September 1957, a California Sports Car Club event, John Lawrence of Pasadena, California, lost his life. Lawrence, a former Cal Club member, piloting a 1500 cc Production champion, went off between Turns 5 and 6 . With no crash barrier in place, and no rollbar on the car, Lawrence's MGA went up the sand embankment, then rolled back onto the track. Though Lawrence survived the incident, and appeared only slightly injured, he died later at the hospital of a brain injury.

The second major event at the track, in November 1957, was a sports car race featuring some of the top drivers of the day, including Carroll Shelby, Masten Gregory and Ken Miles. Another driver entered was an inexperienced local youngster named Dan Gurney, who had been offered the opportunity to drive a powerful but ill-handling 4.9-liter Ferrari after better-known drivers such as Shelby and Miles had rejected it. Shelby led early but spun and fell back. Gurney assumed the lead and led for much of the event. Shelby, driving furiously to catch up, finally overtook Gurney late in the race and won. Gurney's performance caught the eye of North American Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti, who arranged for Gurney to drive a factory-supported Ferrari at Le Mans in 1958, effectively launching the Californian's European career.

Footage exists of classic races like the 1986 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in which the Chevy Corvette of Doc Bundy, attempting a three-wide pass going into turn 1, hit the Ford Probe of Lyn St. James and the Jaguar of Chip Robinson. St. James' car caught fire and Chip Robinson nearly cartwheeled into the crowd. St. James survived the flames and Robinson escaped uninjured within the track bounds.

The track was known as a relatively dangerous course, with its long, downhill back straightaway and brake-destroying, relatively slow 180-degree Turn 9 at the end. During the 1965 Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race, Indycar great A. J. Foyt suffered a brake failure at the end of the straight, shot off the road and went end-over-end through the infield at high speed. Crash crews assumed Foyt was dead at the scene, until fellow driver Parnelli Jones noticed a twitch of movement. Ford factory sports car driver Ken Miles was killed there in a testing accident in August 1966 when his Ford sports car prototype (known as the J-car) became aerodynamically unstable and flew out of control at the end of the back straight. In December 1968, American Formula 5000 champion Dr. Lou Sell crashed and overturned in Turn 9 on the first lap of the Rex Mays 300 Indianapolis-style race, suffering near-fatal burns. In January 1967, Canadian driver Billy Foster crashed at Turn 9 during a practice-session just prior to the start of qualifying for the Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race. These accidents and others caused track management to reconfigure Turn 9, giving the turn a dogleg approach and a much wider radius (a water improvement also closed the raceway for a few months).

In January 1964, Riverside also claimed the life of 1962'63 NASCAR champion Joe Weatherly, who refused to wear a shoulder harness and wore his lap belt loosely. Weatherly died when he lost control entering Turn 6, hitting the steel barrier almost broadside and had his head snapped out the window against the barrier.

Nevertheless, in 1983 Turn 9 was the site of the only fatality in IMSA GTP history. In the 1983 Times Grand Prix, Rolf Stommelen's Joest-constructed Porsche 935 lost its rear wing at the Dogleg and hit two freeway-type barriers sending it into a horrific roll at Turn 9.

Of the entire road course races run at RIR, there was one that was run in a counter-clockwise direction, sometime around 1960. In 1966 Dan Gurney tested his first Eagle racing car on a shorter, counter-clockwise version of the track tailored specifically for his car's Indianapolis-specific left-turn oiling system. The test caused Gurney to ask track president Les Richter to hold an Indianapolis-style race there. From 1967 to 1969 the Rex Mays 300 served as the season-ending USAC Indianapolis-car race.

ESPN was live for the June 12, 1988, Budweiser 400 race at RIR and caught racer Ruben Garcia crashing hard off turn 9 and his car went through a tire/guardrail barrier and then goes through the fence, destroys a cement barrier before coming to rest near a fence where the fans were sitting on the 32nd lap. He was not injured, though, and neither were the race fans, the red flag was out for 25 minutes and 5 seconds to make repairs to the area by adding 2 Jersey barriers.

After 14 years of NASCAR as a driver and later a car owner, Richard Childress won his first NASCAR race in 1983, when Ricky Rudd drove his #3 Piedmont Airlines Chevrolet to victory in the 1983 Budweiser 400k.

From 1981 until 1987, NASCAR's championship race was at Riverside. The USAC Championship Trail also held their season ending race from 1967 to 1969.

Riverside was home to track announcer Sandy Reed and (along with former LA Rams player Les Richter) Roy Hord Jr.

NASCAR Team owners Roger Penske and Rick Hendrick drove a select few races at Riverside in their own cars. Penske won a Winston West race in 1963, while In the final race in 1988, Hendrick got out of the car and let Elliott Forbes-Robinson take over.

The Winston Western 500 came to be known as the signature event at the track. Initially (1963-1981) this race was held in January as the Winston Cup Series season opener, but beginning in 1982 NASCAR elected to start the season with the Daytona 500. From 1981-1987 the Winston Western 500 was held in November as the final race of the season. As of 2019, 1981 is the only year in NASCAR history that Riverside held 3 Cup Series events in a single season (the season opener, The season's halfway point, and the season finale). The reason why Riverside was the season finale for 1981 was because Ontario Motor Speedway closed after the season ended in 1980.

Riverside also hosted drag racing events. Between 1961 and 1969, the Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races, "one of the most significant drag racing events" of that era, were held at RIR. The championship offered a US$37,000 prize, greater even than a National Hot Rod Association national event prize at the time.


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To Leagues and site owners:

If this track is downloaded and used for league racing, it is to retain the original name and content. DO NOT add your league name, add MENCS banners, edit the track.ini, readme file, or add/remove content to the track via sandbox. Adding your league logo to a billboard is also forbidden. These tracks are to remain in their original form.  I will not tolerate the endless polluting of my tracks like we see on the cup and other tracks out there.

If you have a website and want add my tracks to your download sections that is welcomed. But.. I do ask that you use the "official" WKC MediaFire download link for each track. It helps me to somewhat keep track of total downloads, keeps the file active on my site so that MediaFire doesn't see it as a dead file, and if I update something your page visitors will always have a link to the current release of said track. A win, win for everyone. ;)

