Thanks to both of you and thanks for the tip! I am just learning CM (I am several years late to the AC party lol)... so bear with me ..
Anyway, I did go to their site and bought both the latest version (1.2) for a few Euros and while there I saw that they had an "early access" version of the same tracked but laser scanned. This was about 14 Euros.
I purchased both lol!!! I'm sorry but after reading through all of this I did not even look at the version .8 that you originally showed me (sorry!)... so I can't tell.. but I can say version 1.2 is spectacular.. I tried the "early access" track and it looks gorgeous too, but many things are not yet set.. (floating bushes lol..etc..)
Either way I think their pay version (whichever you get) is just fabulous. While I don't know if you will get a significant improvement over .8, perhaps it's worth supporting the developers.
Either way, I am loving just setting a bunch of AI cars on this track, and driving up the transfagarasan that I actually drove in real live back in 2015. I remember many of the corners and much of the scenery!!
Thanks again for the tips!