Though Lawrence survived the incident, and appeared only slightly injured, he died later at the hospital of a brain injury. With no crash barrier in place, and no rollbar on the car, Lawrence's MGA went up the sand embankment, then rolled back onto the track. Lawrence, a former Cal Club member, piloting a 1500 cc Production champion, went off between Turns 5 and 6. The first weekend of scheduled races in September 1957, a California Sports Car Club event, John Lawrence of Pasadena, California, died. This late investment prevented any halt in the track's construction. However, the building of the raceway was met with funding difficulties early on and businessman John Edgar provided a much needed cash investment. The head of West Coast Auto Testing was a retired race driver named Rudy Cleye, from Los Angeles, who had previously raced in Europe. It was built in early 1957 by a company called West Coast Automotive Testing Corp. In the beginning it was originally called The Riverside International Motor Raceway. History The final NASCAR race at Riverside in 1988 After that final race, a shortened version of the circuit was kept open for car clubs and special events until 1989. The track was in operation from September 22, 1957, to July 2, 1989, with the last race, The Budweiser 400, won by Rusty Wallace, held in 1988. It was also considered one of the finest tracks in the United States. Riverside was noted for its hot, dusty environment, which was a dangerous challenge for drivers. In 1984, the raceway became part of the newly incorporated city of Moreno Valley. Riverside International Raceway (sometimes known as Riverside, RIR, or Riverside Raceway) was a motorsports race track and road course established in the Edgemont area of Riverside County, California, just east of the city limits of Riverside and 50 mi (80 km) east of Los Angeles, in 1957. West Coast Automotive Testing Corp (1957)Įd Pauley, Bob Hope, and Fred Levy (1958–1969) ( July 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. If you get any errors it means your paths are not correct or your mas files are in wrong folders.This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. Double check the folders match with these paths. Then repeat this for each track configuration for all scn files. Take the folder named 123abc (if you want to use that) and and make it like this: Rename the paths so that they match with what your paths are. In the mores track this is the MoresShort folder. This is unpacked into the 123abc folder as it contains the track dds file and the tdf fileį) now go into one of the config folders. So create a new folder under 123abc for each config and unpack each mas into its own folderĮ) using the mores track as an example you also then have a mas called mores.mas. Anims.mas goes into anims folder, gmt.mas goes into gmts folder and so forthĭ) you have some mas files left. In rf2 original folder the files are inside version number folder.Ĭ) unpack all those mas files into the same name folders. Create these folders in the 123abc folder and put them under correct sub folders: Assets, anis, gmts, maps. Name it 123abcī) check the file structure from the moddev joesville map. With cars it is very similar.Ī) create a folder in your locations folder for the track. I don't know about unpacking rfcmp files but if you have a mod car or track installed you can unpack the mas files into dev mode. With that you can right click a rfcmp file in your file explorer and you have the option there to "install to devmode".