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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Torrance, CA. March 19, 2002
Victory Newswire
Intel Chooses Xtreme Air
Racing To
Demo At 2002 Game Developers Conference
When the
Intel Corporation needed gaming software
to compliment the showing of their
Northwood 2.2 GHz processor at the 2002
Game Developers Conference, they chose
Victory Simulations "Bob
Hoovers Xtreme Air Racing" as
an example of a current flight simulation
that would represent state-of-the-art
graphics and game play.
Victory
Simulations "Bob Hoovers
Xtreme Air Racing" is a highly
detailed, action packed representation of
the gut-wrenching sport of air racing.
Based on the Reno National Championship
Air Races, held each September at the
Reno-Stead Airport, located in the high
desert north of Reno, Nevada, Xtreme Air
Racing developers used satellite mapping
to accurately capture the terrain details
of the actual race course.
Flight and
terrain modeling is so accurate in Xtreme
Air Racing that it is currently being
used by individual race pilots for
off-season training and is being
considered for use at the annual training
session held at Reno for pilot
qualification.
Current
Reno National Unlimited Gold Champion,
Skip Holm, pilot of the highly modified
P-51 Mustang raceplane, "Dago
Red" recently said of the game: "This
game would be of value to real race
pilots in honing their racing skills,
practicing emergencies, engine out
procedures, or just plain racing
around the pole flying in their
ever present mode of trying to beat Dago
Red! Matter of fact, I am going to use
the game as a training aid, and have all
my engine out emergencies in my living
room from now on. If you ever wanted to
experience the thrill of air racing, this
is the game for you. It doesn't get any
better than this."
Skip is
not alone in his assessment of Xtreme Air
Racing.
Last year
when six time Reno National Air Race
Unlimited Gold Champion and member of the
Motorsports Hall Of Fame, Lyle Shelton
flew Xtreme Air Racing during its
development, he immediately agreed with
Holms view of the game: "Xtreme
Air Racing gives me many of the same
sensations of speed and relative motion
that I get when Im flying The Rare
Bear around the course at Reno,"
said Shelton after a lapping the Reno
course included with Xtreme Air Racing,
adding, "You guys need to give
this to the racing class check pilots for
training race pilots
the terrain and pylon
locations are pretty much what you see
out there this would be a great
help to any pilot flying Reno."
Developed
with the aid of actual race pilots and
World War Two fighter pilot, air show
pilot and Reno National Championship Air
Race pace plane pilot, Mr. R.A. Bob
Hoover, Xtreme Air Racing is the first
serious flight simulation to model the
high paced, "Worlds Fastest
Motorsport."
If you
think you are ready to tackle the pylons
of Reno at 50 feet above the
"rattlesnakes and rocks" of the
rugged 8.2688 mile course at Reno, strap
in, go fast and turn left!
For more
information about Victory Simulations Bob
Hoovers Xtreme Air Racing, visit http://www.xtremeairracing.com/ or,
Contact
Patrick Hunt at phunt@victorysims.com
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