So, is the Gran Turismo game patterned after Greenwood? Various groups have driven on tours over the road, but due to liability, racing is out of the question.Įven if people wanted to buy the track, the engineer group has no plans to sell. Newspaper accounts say the track ran out of money and closed but 50 years on, people are still interested in it. The high horsepower cars tore up the track.” And that’s what eventually led to the down fall of the tack. The track was open for three or four years, “Caroll Shelby came down here and raced his high horse power Mustangs. “There’s a lot of buzz out there, we’ve had a lot of people wanting to stop in.”īob Herndon of Iowa Operating Engineers Training Center took Channel 13’s Roger Riley on a tour of the old track.Īccording to the Warren County Historical Society, the aging circuit started operating in 1963. The old raceway is now used to train heavy equipment operators. On the game, the track is described as being fictional but was it really patterned after an obscure former race track near Indianola called Greenwood Raceway? It’s a track that has been featured in all the Gran Turismo editions since 1997. A game this popular has its own web community and of late, discussion has come up on one of their most popular tracks, Deep Forest Raceway.
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Gran Turismo is a popular racing simulator game which, according to Sony Entertainment, has sold 50-million units. Some on the internet are claiming a popular video racing game is based on an old race track near Indianola. So, if it could, an old Iowa race track should be flattered. They say imitation is the best form of flattery. Note the direction of the circuit appears to be the “reverse” configuration of Deep Forest, which can be seen in the second video of Gran Turismo 5 for comparison. The sensation, though, of driving the real track is eerily reminiscent of driving the virtual track simply because the rise and fall of the two layouts is so close to identical.įortunately, several car clubs have been granted access to the circuit in recent times, and some participants have filmed their drive around the circuit. But again, in about the right place and even on the right side of the track. The original Greenwood pit location is slightly different than the virtual track. The two highest points on both are at the end of the back straight (in the tunnels on Deep Forest Raceway) or at the ninety degree bends in the middle section, and the lowest two points are at the start of the back straight and at the hairpin at the end of the main straight. Driving on both tracks, the rise and fall of the circuit is virtually identical. What can’t be seen from the maps is the identical nature of the topography of the two tracks. Though Greenwood is obviously not an exact replica of Deep Forest (the real circuit is 3 miles in length, and the virtual is 2.2 miles), they share some uncanny characteristics.
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