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On behalf of Team Players, IDT and D3 I would like to announce the final release of the Grand Slam mod.
Originally planned in 2006 for a commercial sim which was never realized we have decided to finish it up and
release it as a mod for rFactor. Featuring the Riley, Crawford Doran and Fabcar from the Daytona Prototype
Class with different engines including the Pontiac, Ford, Lexus, Infinity, Porsche and BMW.
The original physics were created by Dave Henrie using as much real data as was available and with
help from Alex Gurney who is an actual driver of this series he was able to give us some great feedback.
We had the pleasure of going to the Daytona 24 hour race with CXC simulations and were fortunate to have
a number of real drivers test our mod on the CXC Motion Pro II. Alex Gurney, A.J Almendinger, Justin Wilson,
Max Papis Ryan Briscoe, Scott Pruett and Helio Castroneves were among the drivers that drove this mod in its beta stage.
Due to a situation beyond our control Dave was unable to complete the physics so the final version was done by Shawn Purdy.
Shawn did an excellent job of improving on what Dave started. So I would like to thank both of them for their help in
finishing the physics for this mod.
I would like to thank Pierre Pelonero for giving this mod to Team Players to finish up.
When he first offered it to me to finish up the original intention was to just get the
Riley working and release it to go with the Fabcar. After looking at the files he gave
me I decided to rework the other models which were incomplete.
I would especially like to thank the guys from our special team that put so much work into
finishing this mod up and the beta testers that helped Shawn get the physics dialed in.
Special thanks to:
Alex Gurney for all your help in testing and feedback.
Chris Considine from CXC for all your help and kindness for setting up the Daytona trip and
for allowing us to have this mod on your Simulator for the Daytona experience.
Pierre Pelonero for allowing us to finish this mod up and let it finally see the light of day.
Rob (Trebor69) Stubb for your great work creating the promo videos for Team Players.
The following members of the team that helped complete this mod.
Shawn Purdy
X-ter
Dave Henrie
Bob Russell
Andy S
Barry Blocker
blazingun
CrivitzChris
Chris Considine
Darin SRT
drumbstick
EnricoPalazzo
Fjalla
Keeper
Michkov
Mike Peters iDT
NAVALHAWKEYE
OG
Shaun-SRT
Stefan Nydegger
swinny
Trebor69
Many thanks for all your help guys ;)
Bob
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Dedication:
This mod is dedicated to all the people that have been in Team Players,
IDT and D3 over the last few years. Below is a list of all the names
of people that have been involved in these three teams at some point or another.
Many have crossed over from one team to another or have left the teams but
I wanted to give each one of them the recognition they deserve and the gratification
of knowing that this mod is finally getting to see the light of day.
Thank you all.
The list of names is a long one so please read the Grand Slam Credits to acknoledge all the people involved.
Enjoy
Team Players Virtual Garage
New League http://www.grandslamracingleague.com/ Starts in 2 weeks running every other saturday @ 11pm est
by bmbliss219 on 25-Apr-10
These cars do not generate much downforce, Compared to Le Mans prototypes, they only produce about 70% of the downforce. You have to drive with the tires more than relying on the wings to keep you planted. The cars do not have diffusers nor tunnel bottoms to generate Ground Effects suction either.
This is the nature of the beast.
Thanks for the comments..
dave henrie
by davehenrie on 16-Apr-10
just be gentle with her..
by _FIREWIRE_ on 16-Apr-10
There's NO GRIP is this a part of this mod if so why don't you consider making and amateur upgrade that makes good grip
by billyracer_88 on 16-Apr-10
There's NO GRIP is this a part of this mod if so why don't you consider making and amateur upgrade that makes good grip
by billyracer_88 on 16-Apr-10
Sorry rFnowner, I thought I was responding to a post on the forum, but I see it's dated from last August. looks like everything from August only shows up here on the WIP page instead of the forum. The mod is for DP Prototypes only, We had gotten permission from a group to include a bunch of 2005 or 06 Porsches, but the size of the mod really made that un-workable. I think there are some Grand AM GT car paks that might fill out the field. Anyone have a link or two?
dh
by davehenrie on 18-Mar-10
Well we put out a beta patch and asked for some feedback, but so far only a few people have commented on it. I 'guess' that is a good thing, but frankly, considering all the wailing that was going on, the volume of responses has been rather tepid.
dave
by davehenrie on 18-Mar-10
Does this mod also include any gt cars or is it just prototypes?
by rfnowner on 18-Mar-10
FBR_BDavis
You are correct that I disabled registration on our forum. I did that becuase I got sick and tired of all the spam. BUT you can still download our mods without being registered.................. TEMPLATES ARE INCLUDED IN THE MOD. You must not have downloaded the final version because there is a BONUS folder with all the templates. Directly from the post on our forum...
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For the opening of the 2010 Grand Am Season we are happy to have the
final version of the Grand Slam mod complete (Grand Am for those of you who are not familiar with it)
By now I think most of you know the story behind this mod so I will not go
into great details here, but please read the "Credits.txt" that is included in the mod. The complete story including all credits are in it so please take the time to read it.
Included in the mod is a "Bonus" folder that has the paint templates and other bonus materials including the short version of our promo video by Trebor 69.
I tried to reduce the size of the templates as much as I could so they are very basic templates but include everything needed to create your own paint jobs. I removed the alpha channel that controls the cube mapping so you will have to create your own. They take up a lot of space in Photoshop so removing them brought each template from 17 meg to about 5 meg.
by Bob (Punko353) on 14-Mar-10
I think they are having some sort of technical problem here at rfc today. The screens are loading very slowly and this forum appears to be missing many of the newer posts. I just got a reply from Bob about the registration over at the Team Players site. He HAS turned that off due to a heavy influx of spam lately. However, you all should be able to get to the site and dload the patch without having to log in. Here is the link again to the patch, the dload link is in the first post.
<a href="http://teamplayers-virtualgara...p=7326#p7326">Grand Slam v1.01 patch</a>
(trying a little html, hope it doesn't explode!)
dh
by davehenrie on 14-Mar-10
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