Available @ shorttracksim.com in the Track Download Section under Historical/Vintage Race Tracks
Catamount Stadium for the NASCAR Racing 2003 simulation.
Short Track (0.36 Miles - oval)
Type: Real track (now closed)
AI: Yes. Working pit stalls for 30 total cars (29 opponents)
Mod support: GNS, CTS. (This track was not tested using any other physics other than those.)
Track Information: 0.333 mile moderately (15 degrees) banked asphalt oval in Milton, Vt.
(The following is condensed from the official website of Catamount Stadium:
www.CatamountStadium.com as written by Bill Ladabouche)
The track, a 1/3 mile paved oval, was constructed in 1965 by a group of six owners. The group included local radio station owner and nearby Thunder Road Track announcer, Ken Squier (whom later became a prominient broadcaster at CBS Sports). The development group also included the Cooley brothers, Ray and Reginald, paving contractors; Burlington businessman and race driver Jack DuBrul; car owner Gordon Fitzgerald; and Milton contractor John Campbell. Once begun, the track came together fairly quickly, given the fact that very few services had to be contracted out to firms other than those run by the owners. In the inaugural 1965 season, fields were very small. Oftentimes, the track could not field three qualifying heats in the modified/sportsman class and the support division, the Flying Tigers, was just being developed. In 1968, the Coupes and Modifieds departed and in their absence, Catamount moved to limited sportsman cars and then to the full late model sportsman.
In 1973, Catamount became part of a 5-track circuit, along with Thunder Road in Barre, Vt., Devil's Bowl Speedway in Fair Haven, Vt., Airborne in Plattsburg, NY and Sanair in St. Pie, Quebec, Canada. It was a grueling schedule which almost wore out the competitors. But amazingly, many of the drivers and teams ran the full gamut and emerged with inflated NASCAR points totals which propelled them into unfamiliar, high places in the NASCAR National Late Model Sportsman points standings that year.
1975 ushered in the era of the 'Beer Tours.' Molson, Stroh's and Coor's all took turns sponsoring the late models. At this time, officials decided it was not in the best interest to run regular weekly programs at Catamount - that the best approach was to have big-paying, periodic large events at the track, while having the division tour around as guest stars at widespread venues from deep into Quebec to points in southern New England.
It became evident that many of the fans could not or would not tour all around, chasing the late models to points all over the map. So it became obvious that the regular weekly shows needed to return. Tom Curley came up with the idea of weekly Friday night programs for late models. Essentially, lower budget teams and younger drivers in need of experience. In 1982, the track returned to the successful Flying Tigers division consisting of Grand American, Street Stock, and even Mini Stock teams. Into this mix, Curley hoped to infuse new stars. That first year, the fields were a curious mixture of former Grand American Mustangs and Camaros lining up along side an occasional upgraded Street Stock car and some very strange rigs brought in from other tracks. Eventually, the class was honed down to a fairly uniform type of car.
By 1987, the sands of Catamount's hourglass began to run out and the track regretfully closed for good.
This NR2003 version is an attempt to closely resemble the track as it appeared during it's heydays of the mid-to-late 1970's 'Beer Tours". It is not, however, an exact replica nor do the limits of NR2003 allow it to be.
[3] CREDITS:
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The following is a list of the people who contributed to this project:
1. Aaron Maynard: Project design and development, graphic detailing, textures, 3d objects, all signage and billboards, Whelen Flag animations, quality control and testing.
2. J.R. Franklin: Graphic detailing, textures, horizons, pit layout, cameras, lps, AI (Artificial Intelligence, i.e. the computer controlled cars), quality control and testing.
3. Carl Sundberg (Riviera71): Base track elevation fixes, beta testing and quality control.
4. Wayne "Bowtie" Anderson: 3do modeling and assistance.
5. Robo19: Pit building object.
6. Mark Royer: 3d objects.
Additonal credits:
7. Danny Coral: GNS and CTS setups
8. Denis Rioux: 1970s haulers and miscellaneous other objects.
9. NR2k3tracks.com, ShortTrackSim.com and BWMS.us (BlackWidow Motorsports) for their help and support.
10. Bill Ladabouche, the creator of
www.CatamountStadium.com. Thank you for the excellent resources of your website and for keeping Catamount Stadium and vintage racing of upper New England, New York and Canada alive.
11. To anyone else whom we neglicted to mention but contributed in the creation of objects that may have been borrowed from other NR2003 tracks for this project, we sincerely apologize. Although you were not mentioned individually, your contributions to NR2003 are greatly appreciated.
We owe a debt of gratitude to each of you for your contributions, time and help.
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