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Pretty heavy page this one, but hey - you wanted pictures! :) If you have the bandwith or the patience, click on the images to view a bigger and better version. 12. January 2001
Driving through the Southcurve, a long banked right-hander after the main straight.
The Pitcurve. A very tight 180° left.
In the middle of the VW-curve, named after the grandstand in Volkwagen colors. Just ahead you can see the Cigarette Pack, a house-sized tobacco advertisement with room for a few spectators on top.
Here we are still in the same VW-curve, at the start of a series of curves.
The BP-curve, guess why it's called that... 12. December 2000
The pits on the left, and the tower straight up. The race stewards had a nice view from the tower: one could see the whole track from there.
The main straight and the start/finish -line. Unlike most other tracks, the S/F-line is not by the pits, but on the other side of the track. The pits were physically close, though, via a set of access roads. The access roads are not modelled in this GPL version, btw, due to techincal restrictions. The Ferrari is standing here on a widened section of the track. This part was sometimes used to form an extra wide starting grid. The track then narrows out just before the 180° turn at the end of the straight. How about that for some T1 action? :)
A few meters before the previous shot, still the main straight. The Keimola track was quite short and twisty, but it had this one very long straight - a bit like Kyalami in the '67 lay-out.
Descending towards Saunalenkki-curve. The name of the curve comes from the sausage-advertisement on the trackside! In fact the slogan on the ad is a very funny pun, but impossible to translate, so you non-finnish-speakers just have to take my word for it! :)
A TV-camera stand, with a coffee-ad.
Here's the tower again. The Mercedes-Benz -star at the top was rotating - nice touch (in real life, that is: it's not rotating in GPL).
And once more (can you guess we are proud of the tower?). This picture is taken from behind the pit stalls - and yes, you can drive here.
You can find the old screenshots (september 2000) here.
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