With drivers like Pat Dotson, Skotty Flynn, Carl Rimmel, Stuart Brown and so on, the competition was tough. There were only five 2-round races at four tracks, but that didn't mean it wasn't a hard fought season. Sean Staples took over the reins of the TPTCC administration, and put together a superb program. Some reformating has been done to make the pages fit into the history.ġ997 was the first year of the TPTCC.and had some interesting drivers. Please note, not all links will work, and files are not available from that area. Click on the year (1997, 1998, ect) to go to a reproduction of the site at that point in time. The first schedule would feature ten rounds at the five tracks drivers could obtain with the free version of David Noonan's convertor."
With the ITCC 1997 season coming to an end, and the TPTCC patch nearing completion, Jan and Sean began planning the TPTCC offline league. Everything was getting a makeover, new cars, new cockpits, new sounds and just about every other needed aspect. The Pits gang had been working on a new project, a full blown patch of N2 that would recreate the sim to create the touring car experience, The Pits Touring Car Championship. When ITCC director Sean Staples contacted Jan Kohl of The Pits about obtaining the full version of the convertor he got some very exciting news with Jan's reply. That summer, sim editor extrodinaire David Noonan announced the release of the ICR2 to N2 track convertor. Only Watkins Glen and Sears Point were featured but it was clear there was a change on the horizon. Part of the ITCC's 1997 schedule featured a, "Next Generation", championship using the new sim. ITCC completed three full seasons and by the end of 1997, with Nascar Racing 2 on the market things were about to change. There were the road courses, the paintjobs on the cars, and nothing more.
Inspired by the North American Touring Car Championship the league had the bare minimum compared to the TPTCC features of today. His ICR2 to N1 convertor lead to the creation of the Internet Touring Car Championship by Sean Staples. Gerhard Lingenberg deserves the first mention. "The history of The Pits Touring Car Championship leads all the way back to the summer of 1996 and Nascar Racing 1. It is even the predecessor to other talented sim editors who have gone on to produce other patches for other racing sims.but this was the first, and upon this patch was built a road-racing league that has continued on since that time. The rest is was the first time someone had completely rebuilt a game to make it something else, and the popularity of the patch has provided years of racing fun for thousands. »» The Pits Touring Car Championship «« The Pits Touring Car Championship.started as a project in 1997 to modify the NASCAR 2 Racing game by Papyrus to mimic SuperTouring auto racing.
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