VW Scirocco 1 (Typ 53) for GT Legends by Customs Compagneros and friends (August 2012)
Version 1.01
Changelog:
1.01 missing sound file added
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Physics: Greg7
Sounds: Ducfreak
2D / 3D / Implementation: Scyrion
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The Scirocco - Iconic Sportscar of the 70s
A long-kept dream has now become reality: to let you experience the Scirocco in all its glory. More than 3 years of development and thousands of hours invested may illustrate, how high our aims were to bring this car to GT Legends in the most authentic way. The outcome makes us proud and we are happy to finally be able to share this with you, the community.
After its 'disastrous' motorsports debut with the VW Junior Cup in 1976 the Scirocco quickly made its way into a variety of touring car championships of that decade with greater success. Other than the ETCC and various other german and european championships the Scirocco played a role in the Trans Am and the SCCA GT3 Championship in America.
In this mod you will find many significant cars from the Sciroccos motorsport history down to the smallest detail. Cars from the VW Junior Cup, from the ETCC and DRP as well as the remarkable cars of Bill Scott and Milt Minter from the Trans Am series and the 2-times SCCA GT3 champion Tom Davey with his eye-catching black and yellow Scirocco. The line up is completed by some modern Sciroccos of KWL Motorsport and Team Menden.
There are a lot of different chassis-styles, cockpits, steering wheels, spoilers, add-on parts and last but not least different physics. We recommend that you have a look at all of the cars. There is a lot to discover.
The mod also comes with 3 different sounds, 2 of them are active in this build. The third sound is reserved for the Hillclimb machines that will be released at a later date.
We have placed the Scirocco in the GTC-TC-76. Being one of the slowest cars in this class (we tried to fit the Scirocco with as much as possible realistic power and match the smaller cars of the class) this FWD car is a lot of fun to drive and will put your driving skills to a test. It will require some time to getting used to it but then you will enjoy a unique (and realistic) driving experience. We have put a lot of effort into that driving model and thanks to our collaboration with Michael Schmitz who is a Scirocco driver irl in the german Youngtimer Trophy who acted as a testdriver and provided us with invaluable feedback we think were able to come very close to the original car.
Now all we have to say is: have as much fun driving the car as we had while making this.
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4 Physics variations are included in the GTL release of the Scirocco
Stock fender club racing cars.
Division 2 ETCC
1976 Trans Am
And late 70s SCCA GT3
Club car:
It seemed in the mid 70s most places that raced cars, had some sort of Scirocco cup racing .
Not a lot of power or grip it is a good car to race as a single make, just like it was in real life.
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The Group 2 ETCC car is perhaps the most famous. Becoming very successful in the new division 2 class after the FIA changed all of the group 2 rules in 1976.
Not surprisingly it is the most represented car in the mod.
More power, grip, and making some down force in the front with a real spoiler. If driven well it is able to put up a good fight with some of the bigger Div-3 and 4 ETCC cars that have been done for GTL.
There are both 4 and 5 speed Group-2 cars included.
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In 1975 Bill Scott had 2 Scirocco’s built for the Trans Am series. With support from VW they were basically copies of Group-2 cars with different body work
These 2 cars are also here with very slightly different physics from the Div-2 cars and just as fast.
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In 1979 Tom Davey took 2 Div-2 Scirocco chassis built by Muller racing in Germany, installed dry sump supervee engines in them and won the SCCA GT3 championship.
These 2 cars are also here with more power and weight then the other 2.
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Driving Notes:
Because all of the turning and accelerating is done by the same 2 front tires, at low speeds the tendency of a FWD cars is to under steer.
In low and medium speed corners to solve this roll back in to the throttle early through the mid corner to keep pulling the front end down to the apex.
In a rear wheel drive car at low speed you might lift of the throttle in this situation to unload the rear tires and get the car to rotate but that will not work well in the sirocco. You will only transfer more weight to the already over loaded front tires. As you enter low and mid speed corners try to be back on the power very early to keep the front end pulling down to the apex of the corner.
This is harder to do than it sounds because even if you don’t notice it you have been lifting to rotate rear drive cars all the time and you need to think about not doing it.
Once you start to get it right and can feel the front of the car “drive” down to the apex it’s a lot of fun.
Too much throttle and you might spin the front tires causing them to loose grip usually causing the inside unloaded tire to spin and the car will go back to under steer, you need to balance the power right at the edge of grip.
Adding power diff lock can also help here if the inside tire refuses to stay hooked up.
In a high speed corner the situation is somewhat different because of the light rear end lifting off the power mid corner at high speed will cause the car to over steer or spin. Here again we need to do something that would not work in a rear wheel drive car. Surprisingly it’s the same thing that fixed the under steer in the low speed corner, get back on the throttle… Hard.
In a rear wheel drive in a high speed loose situation you would rarely go right to full power to save it but this is what you need to do in the Rocco.
It transfers weight to the rear to reload the unloaded tires and the front end pulls the rear back in to line. Also you go faster and that is a good thing.
Corner entry rotation can be hugely effected by the front to rear brake percentage.
Because of the light rear if you are having trouble getting the car to rotate on corer entry adding rear brake will help.
The opposite is of course also true.
If the Scirocco wants to spin on corner entry while on the brakes this is almost always an indication of too much rear brake.
The defalt set up has a small amount of front sway bar in it. As you get used to using power to control the high speed over steer setting the front bar to 0 will help the car turn in better in low speed corners, and should almost always be set to 0 on slow tracks.
Adding some front bar can help on high speed tracks if the car feels a bit to loose for your liking.
Everything is about the front of the car, what ever you can make the front do the rear will follow along good or bad.
Even if the back of the car is doing something you don’t like you need to control it with the front of the car. It is a little different way of thinking when you are driving.
I have found it to be a very fun experience
Greg7.
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INSTALLATION and DISCLAIMER
Extract to your GTL installation folder OR extract to prefered place and copy the extracted Gamedata folder to your GTL installation folder and replace the existing files
For manual installation these folders have to got to the following directories:
"VW Scirocco Mk1" to /GTL/GameData/Teams/GTC-TC-76
"Scirocco-MkI_SA" to /GTL/GameData/Sounds/Cars
The author can not be held responsible for any losses incurred, either directly or indirectly by the use of these files.
This file is FREE and provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.
Modification, re-use or re-release are expressly forbidden without the authors expressed permission. Please respect our work!
This applies especially to the sounds created by Ducfreak!
A GTR2 version of the Scirocco is already in the works.
New skins are always welcome and we are looking forward to your creations. Templates will be available at a later date.
We would be pleased about your comments, praise, criticism, suggestions. Either in the appropriate forums
or write to: scyrion@mail.com
If you want to host the Scirocco, please ask us:
(via PM on the Altbierbude, GTR4u or Nogrip / / username: Scyrion or Greg7).
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CREDITS
We would like to thank everybody involved into the creation process of the Scirocco.
Kart1803 - Teammate and the one who started this project
Without you I wouldn't eve have started modding.
papa syber 97 - Our Scirocco stock picture archive
Thank you so much for countless Scirocco pictures and your support. You are the one who made that level of detail possible.
Ducfreak - Maestro
Many thanks for these phantastic sounds and for being up to making them. Your sounds have made the car perfect for me.
Michael Schmitz - Testdriver
Thank you Mich for your testing runs and the invaluable feedback. You have been one of our greatest assets.
Auer-Power-Motorsport
Many thanks for your support, feedback and countless great pictures. You guys ROCC!
Many thanks to the Altbierbude-Team where the development of the Scirocco has found a perfect home. A special thank you goes to B8man - for 'everything'
Thank you to Simbin for bringing us GTL.
A thank you also goes to virtualr.net and bsimracing.com. Your work is much appreciated.
Thanks to the communities and the people who followed the development of the Scirocoo with their positive comments, keeping our motivation on a high level.
Thanks to all the betatesters and everybody I forgot to mention.
A very special thank you to Cooky!
Have fun with the Scirocco and many of exciting laps on the tracks of the world wishes Team CC & friends
Cu on track!
/Scyrion
Version 1.01
Changelog:
1.01 missing sound file added
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Physics: Greg7
Sounds: Ducfreak
2D / 3D / Implementation: Scyrion
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Scirocco - Iconic Sportscar of the 70s
A long-kept dream has now become reality: to let you experience the Scirocco in all its glory. More than 3 years of development and thousands of hours invested may illustrate, how high our aims were to bring this car to GT Legends in the most authentic way. The outcome makes us proud and we are happy to finally be able to share this with you, the community.
After its 'disastrous' motorsports debut with the VW Junior Cup in 1976 the Scirocco quickly made its way into a variety of touring car championships of that decade with greater success. Other than the ETCC and various other german and european championships the Scirocco played a role in the Trans Am and the SCCA GT3 Championship in America.
In this mod you will find many significant cars from the Sciroccos motorsport history down to the smallest detail. Cars from the VW Junior Cup, from the ETCC and DRP as well as the remarkable cars of Bill Scott and Milt Minter from the Trans Am series and the 2-times SCCA GT3 champion Tom Davey with his eye-catching black and yellow Scirocco. The line up is completed by some modern Sciroccos of KWL Motorsport and Team Menden.
There are a lot of different chassis-styles, cockpits, steering wheels, spoilers, add-on parts and last but not least different physics. We recommend that you have a look at all of the cars. There is a lot to discover.
The mod also comes with 3 different sounds, 2 of them are active in this build. The third sound is reserved for the Hillclimb machines that will be released at a later date.
We have placed the Scirocco in the GTC-TC-76. Being one of the slowest cars in this class (we tried to fit the Scirocco with as much as possible realistic power and match the smaller cars of the class) this FWD car is a lot of fun to drive and will put your driving skills to a test. It will require some time to getting used to it but then you will enjoy a unique (and realistic) driving experience. We have put a lot of effort into that driving model and thanks to our collaboration with Michael Schmitz who is a Scirocco driver irl in the german Youngtimer Trophy who acted as a testdriver and provided us with invaluable feedback we think were able to come very close to the original car.
Now all we have to say is: have as much fun driving the car as we had while making this.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 Physics variations are included in the GTL release of the Scirocco
Stock fender club racing cars.
Division 2 ETCC
1976 Trans Am
And late 70s SCCA GT3
Club car:
It seemed in the mid 70s most places that raced cars, had some sort of Scirocco cup racing .
Not a lot of power or grip it is a good car to race as a single make, just like it was in real life.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Group 2 ETCC car is perhaps the most famous. Becoming very successful in the new division 2 class after the FIA changed all of the group 2 rules in 1976.
Not surprisingly it is the most represented car in the mod.
More power, grip, and making some down force in the front with a real spoiler. If driven well it is able to put up a good fight with some of the bigger Div-3 and 4 ETCC cars that have been done for GTL.
There are both 4 and 5 speed Group-2 cars included.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In 1975 Bill Scott had 2 Scirocco’s built for the Trans Am series. With support from VW they were basically copies of Group-2 cars with different body work
These 2 cars are also here with very slightly different physics from the Div-2 cars and just as fast.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In 1979 Tom Davey took 2 Div-2 Scirocco chassis built by Muller racing in Germany, installed dry sump supervee engines in them and won the SCCA GT3 championship.
These 2 cars are also here with more power and weight then the other 2.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Driving Notes:
Because all of the turning and accelerating is done by the same 2 front tires, at low speeds the tendency of a FWD cars is to under steer.
In low and medium speed corners to solve this roll back in to the throttle early through the mid corner to keep pulling the front end down to the apex.
In a rear wheel drive car at low speed you might lift of the throttle in this situation to unload the rear tires and get the car to rotate but that will not work well in the sirocco. You will only transfer more weight to the already over loaded front tires. As you enter low and mid speed corners try to be back on the power very early to keep the front end pulling down to the apex of the corner.
This is harder to do than it sounds because even if you don’t notice it you have been lifting to rotate rear drive cars all the time and you need to think about not doing it.
Once you start to get it right and can feel the front of the car “drive” down to the apex it’s a lot of fun.
Too much throttle and you might spin the front tires causing them to loose grip usually causing the inside unloaded tire to spin and the car will go back to under steer, you need to balance the power right at the edge of grip.
Adding power diff lock can also help here if the inside tire refuses to stay hooked up.
In a high speed corner the situation is somewhat different because of the light rear end lifting off the power mid corner at high speed will cause the car to over steer or spin. Here again we need to do something that would not work in a rear wheel drive car. Surprisingly it’s the same thing that fixed the under steer in the low speed corner, get back on the throttle… Hard.
In a rear wheel drive in a high speed loose situation you would rarely go right to full power to save it but this is what you need to do in the Rocco.
It transfers weight to the rear to reload the unloaded tires and the front end pulls the rear back in to line. Also you go faster and that is a good thing.
Corner entry rotation can be hugely effected by the front to rear brake percentage.
Because of the light rear if you are having trouble getting the car to rotate on corer entry adding rear brake will help.
The opposite is of course also true.
If the Scirocco wants to spin on corner entry while on the brakes this is almost always an indication of too much rear brake.
The defalt set up has a small amount of front sway bar in it. As you get used to using power to control the high speed over steer setting the front bar to 0 will help the car turn in better in low speed corners, and should almost always be set to 0 on slow tracks.
Adding some front bar can help on high speed tracks if the car feels a bit to loose for your liking.
Everything is about the front of the car, what ever you can make the front do the rear will follow along good or bad.
Even if the back of the car is doing something you don’t like you need to control it with the front of the car. It is a little different way of thinking when you are driving.
I have found it to be a very fun experience
Greg7.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INSTALLATION and DISCLAIMER
Extract to your GTL installation folder OR extract to prefered place and copy the extracted Gamedata folder to your GTL installation folder and replace the existing files
For manual installation these folders have to got to the following directories:
"VW Scirocco Mk1" to /GTL/GameData/Teams/GTC-TC-76
"Scirocco-MkI_SA" to /GTL/GameData/Sounds/Cars
The author can not be held responsible for any losses incurred, either directly or indirectly by the use of these files.
This file is FREE and provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.
Modification, re-use or re-release are expressly forbidden without the authors expressed permission. Please respect our work!
This applies especially to the sounds created by Ducfreak!
A GTR2 version of the Scirocco is already in the works.
New skins are always welcome and we are looking forward to your creations. Templates will be available at a later date.
We would be pleased about your comments, praise, criticism, suggestions. Either in the appropriate forums
or write to: scyrion@mail.com
If you want to host the Scirocco, please ask us:
(via PM on the Altbierbude, GTR4u or Nogrip / / username: Scyrion or Greg7).
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CREDITS
We would like to thank everybody involved into the creation process of the Scirocco.
Kart1803 - Teammate and the one who started this project
Without you I wouldn't eve have started modding.
papa syber 97 - Our Scirocco stock picture archive
Thank you so much for countless Scirocco pictures and your support. You are the one who made that level of detail possible.
Ducfreak - Maestro
Many thanks for these phantastic sounds and for being up to making them. Your sounds have made the car perfect for me.
Michael Schmitz - Testdriver
Thank you Mich for your testing runs and the invaluable feedback. You have been one of our greatest assets.
Auer-Power-Motorsport
Many thanks for your support, feedback and countless great pictures. You guys ROCC!
Many thanks to the Altbierbude-Team where the development of the Scirocco has found a perfect home. A special thank you goes to B8man - for 'everything'
Thank you to Simbin for bringing us GTL.
A thank you also goes to virtualr.net and bsimracing.com. Your work is much appreciated.
Thanks to the communities and the people who followed the development of the Scirocoo with their positive comments, keeping our motivation on a high level.
Thanks to all the betatesters and everybody I forgot to mention.
A very special thank you to Cooky!
Have fun with the Scirocco and many of exciting laps on the tracks of the world wishes Team CC & friends
Cu on track!
/Scyrion
