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12/28/2013 at 17:23 • Filed to: Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo 5, Gran Turismo 2, Gran Turismo 6, Gran Turismo 3, Rome Circuit, Circuito de Roma, Italy, Rome, Colosseum, Roman Colosseum, street circuits, maps, tracks
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The old Ancient Roman ruins of the Colosseum is being cleaned up right now, cleansing the thousand years old building from the grime cause by car pollution. And it looks like more efforts to preserve the Colosseum will result in making the area a car-free zone.
From the Gizmodo article shared, a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of an article dated 12 August 2013 revealed that Rome's recently elected new mayor plans to remove the straight road that runs towards the Colosseum, named 'Via dei Fori Imperiali', to remove congestion that plagues the historical sites of the city. The purpose also includes producing a historical public park around the ancient forums too. The street was built under the rule of facist leader Benito Mussolini, in a rather biased-sounding but politically correct explanation by the Los Angeles Times, " part of his bid to tap into the prestige of the Roman empire as he sought to build his fascist rule. Opening the road on horseback in 1932, he led a parade of World War I veterans along it. "
The current Circuito De Roma variation in Gran Turismo 6, established since Gran Turismo 5, uses the straight road as the starting line, the pit stop, and the main straight. The straight road in real life is now only available to use for public service vehicles, and soon to be a pedestrian street. While this doesn't mean anything for the creative minds in Polyphony Digital, where they have built a trekking route into a road and rally course for Matterhorn and Eiger Norwand, the potential of losing the road could invalidate the layout resembling real life Roman streets for future GT releases.
If you thought, "well why not go back to the amazing GT3 layout they had?", then you might not realize part of the GT3 circuit, est. GT2, also uses a section of the Via dei Fori Imperiali. This can mean the end of Gran Turismo's use of Roman street circuits. But there are always alternatives.
Take for example, Rome Night (GT2), a totally different track compared to it's day time variants. The course doesn't run past the Colosseum, but uses the esses in Rome GT5 in the second half of the track. It runs through tight streets and also runs alongside the Tevere River, also missing past the nation borders of the Holy See by a couple of kilometres. However, that circuit as well has it's real life routes altered.
This leaves the Rome Short circuit from GT2 as the sole survivor in Rome's future of GT appearnaces. Although a shame, it is time for Polyphony Digital to reproduce another Rome circuit!
This is what I call, the Rome Crocodile. Perhaps a few adjustments made to reflect the looming changes for the Rome straight could be made.
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