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THIS TRACK IS NOT TO BE CONVERTED TO rFACTOR OR ANY OTHER FORMAT.

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Track Name: Lakewood Speedway
Loaction: Atlanta, Georgia
Track Length: 1.011 Mile
Year Built/Opened: July 4, 1917 / Closed Septrmber 3, 1979
Surface: Dirt
Direction: Counter-clockwise
Turns: 4
Race laps (Full): 150
Release Date: 5/16/17
Racing sim:  NASCAR Racing 2003 Season

Type: Real
Offline AI: YES
Mod support: cts - gns - cup - pta

Opponent Strenght Suggestion: 100% to 105%

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.

This is a dirt track and the cushions use dirt as a surface meterial so that it can have it's own grip level. Dirt creates dust clouds. I have included an extra folder called "Smoke and Dust Reduction Mips" (with it's own readme file) containing mip files that can be placed in the "Effects" folder to reduce the thickness of the dust. They are a huge help when racing on dirt tracks, and can also be used to reduce dust and smoke on paved tracks.

TIP: When racing on dirt, TURN UP the wind option up to at least 5 mph minimum to keep the dust moving in whatever direction you have set. :ie North, South, East, West. It helps with dust reduction too... Especially on short tracks.

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The layout has been updated, new higher res graphics added, pitlane has been rebuilt to hold 43 cars, updated 3do files have been added and ther is suppost for cup, cts, gns and pta.

An animated lake has been added. My first real 3ds max scripting effort that worked. :) It's very low poly and doesn't affect the frame rates.

A start zone has also been added.

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This vintage track is 12.99 meters (42.60 feet) wide in most areas. Fender banging and wrecks are going to happen, and that's just concidering the AI. I have lowered the drafting distance and increased the bubble around the AI as much as I can without making it single file racing. The fact that the track is dirt adds yet another factor. If you are experiancing too many cautions, start races with cautions turned off, and if all else fails single file restarts.

This is a dirt track. Dirt tracks are outside of the NR2003 physics realm. Default setups have been provided and they should be used to race. If you do tweak them don't get too crazy adding tire pressure. Keep it LOW. Over inflation will allow you to walk past the AI but defeats the purpose of the track and how it should be used. These dirt tracks were never meant to be part of NR2003, but we can create them with the idea of simple, fun, racing, without all of the higher end setups. 

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The original track was created for NR3 - Creator ???
Christopher Jaudes - testing
Wayne "Bowtie" Anderson - 3do rollback, water truck, buildings
BOWTIE: http://ewracing.com/ewracing/n2k3_3d_objects.htm
Rob Gordon (robo19) for the mud screen at the starter stand.
There are a few 3do files that I have no idea who originally created them such as the giant ferris wheel. If you created this file contact me and I will add a credit for its use. Thanks....
Some 3do files from the original track were updated to higher resolution grpahics.

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From Wikipedia

Lakewood Speedway was a race track located south of Atlanta, Georgia, in Lakewood, just north of the eastern arm of Langford Parkway (formerly Lakewood Freeway). The track held many kinds of races between 1919 and 1979, including events sanctioned by AAA/USAC, IMCA, and NASCAR. It was a one-mile (1.6 km) dirt track which was located adjacent to Lakewood Fairgrounds. Lakewood Speedway was considered the "Indianapolis of the South" as it was located in the largest city in the Southern United States and it held an annual race of the Indy cars.

In 1916, Atlanta officials chose the Lakewood Fairgrounds as the site for agricultural fairs. They built a one-mile (1.6 km) horse racing track around a lake at the fairgrounds. The first events were held at the track on July 4, 1917. The feature events were a horse race and motorcycle race, before 23,000 spectators.A first automobile race was held at the track later that year; it featured Barney Oldfield in a match race against Ralph DePalma which attracted 15,000 spectators.[3] In the 1920s and 1930s, the International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) held car racing events during fairs and the American Automobile Association (AAA)/USAC held an annual event on July 4. By 1938, the track was hosting races with champ cars, horses, midgets, modifieds, motorcycles, and boats (in the infield lake). The Atlantic States Racing Association, Central States Auto Racing Association, Gulf States Automobile Association, International Stock Car Racing Association, and Motor Internationale Association all sanctioned events at the track. The track closed in 1941, like all United States racetracks, because the U.S. government banned all automobile racing to conserve materials during World War II.

Lakewood became the premier track on the National Stock Car Racing Association circuit. Following the NSCRA's folding, NASCAR held its first race at the track in 1951. It held eleven Grand National (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) and two Convertible division races in the 1950s.

Atlanta Motor Speedway opened 20 miles south of Atlanta in 1960. The new 1.5-mile (2.4 km) which took away the NASCAR dates and began draining on the track's appeal. Lakewood was resurfaced in 1967.

Evel Knievel made an appearance at Lakewood Speedway in 1972. He was scheduled to make a jump, but had injured his back the week before. After another stuntman, Wicked Ward, performed the motorcycle jump, Evel Knievel was brought to the track in an ambulance, where he was lifted onto his motorcycle by four assistants. He then drove up and down the track, popping wheelies for the crowd.

The track fell into disuse in the late 1970s. After it officially closed on September 3, 1979, it was allowed to be overgrown with grass and bushes. Monthly flea markets and a few concerts were held at the exhibition halls on the fairgrounds. As of 2008, the grandstand is still standing, but the third and fourth turns of the racetrack are covered by the back parking lot for Lakewood Amphitheatre. A road crosses the turn two, and the frontstretch was paved to become an access road to Lakewood Avenue. Most of the lake has been filled.

* Deaths at Lakewood Speedway

Most of the infield was the lake, which made the track dangerous when drivers made a mistake. The turns at each end of the track had different radii, like Darlington Speedway has today. Several drivers died in crashes at the speedway.

George Robson and George Barringer died in a four-car crash on the second last lap at a Champ car race on September 2, 1946. Billy De Vore was attempting to finish the race at a slow pace after he had engine problems when Robson crashed into his car. Robson was unable to see De Vore's car until it was too late because the dust in the air caused limited visibility. De Vore's car was pushed over a stone wall. Robson's car was hit by Barringer and Bud Bardowski's cars. Only nine cars were running at the time of the accident. Robson and Barrington died shortly after arriving at an area hospital. Race leader Ted Horn saw the crash; He futilely attempted to flag down the other drivers. Horn was declared the race winner.

Skimp Hersey received severe burns in a stock car crash at Lakewood Park Speedway on June 11, 1950. He died the next day.
Frank Luptow of Tampa, Florida died when the axle on his stock car broke causing it to flip over and crushing Luptow in the process.

Art Bisch died two days after sustaining head and chest injuries when his Champ Car smashed into the guard rail and rolled over twice in a USAC Champ car race held on July 4, 1958 Racing resumed after the war

* Notable Races

Richard Petty took the checkered flag to win his first NASCAR Grand National race at the track in 1959. Second place finisher Lee Petty (Richard's father and car owner) protested the result, asking for a recount of the race's scorecards. NASCAR official recounted the scorecards and awarded the win to Lee Petty. Richard Petty went on to win 200 races in his career, which is the most races in NASCAR history.

Gober Sosebee began his career in 1940 at Atlanta's Lakewood Speedway. Johnny Beauchamp recorded his first NASCAR victory at Lakewood Speedway in 1959. Curtis Turner, racing for Holman Moody raced 1959 Thunderbirds and won races at Lakewood Speedway. Bill Blair drove a 1952 Oldsmobile owned by George Hutchens to his second win at Lakewood Speedway on April 20, 1952. His final race was at Lakewood in 1958.

* Lakewood Speedway in the Movies

Lakewood Speedway was featured prominently in a few different movies. Scenes from the 1977 Burt Reynolds' film, Smokey and the Bandit were staged at Lakewood.

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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, 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. ;)

