It's goodbye from him, and its goodbye from me. Sim Gallery is currently no longer being updated and is un-officially closed. With the many great sims around now it has been increasingly difficult to keep up with everything. Plans are in the pipe for a 'best of' for sometime in the future so if Geocities don't close us down.. well here's hoping they don't. I would like to thank the many many contributors and I have had great pleasure in showing your work. In closing I would like to say a special thanks to two great guys that encouraged me to keep at this fun and sometimes frustrating hobby.. Tim Kellebrew and Jan Kohl from the US Pits. The gallery has been exhibiting fine works of sim art featuring masterpieces by sim artists from all turns of the globe. From Sweden to Brazil, from England to New Zealand. Apart from our regular exhibitions of screen shots from the Papyrus sims, we have enjoyed sharing features on those 'out-sider' sims.. Toca Touring Cars, F1RS, CPR, Power F1 and even Al Unser Jr.. We have presented special features from many of the internet racing leagues and have been sponsors to several major offline races over the year. We are proud of the awards we have received and without our Sim Gallery supporters, contributors and visitors.. the doors would have closed years ago. We thank you all for the encouragement and for being loyal fans. We hope we can bring you just as much quality art and enjoyment sometime in the future. Thanks.. Dave 'the Curator'

Things are heating up for the Bull Run 1000. Race teams have been finalised and the freshly livered TPTCC touring cars are taking to the track for qualifing. This is the second year for the great race and many of the teams and drivers have returned to endure the tortures of this grueling track. The teams have been fine tuning their set-ups and rehearsing their driver changes, this is not just a test of driving skills but also a test of computing skills. ICQ has been running hot with discussion on tyre pressures, spring rates and gear ratios. The Bull Run 1000 is *the* offline simulation racing event of the year. LATE BRAKING NEWS... The Pits Performance 2 team of Goy Larsen and Gilles Beniot win the 1998 Bull Run 1000. Read all about it in the next Sim Gallery update.

Writer, racer and good friend of Sim Gallery.. Tim Kellebrew releases book. With many years of both on and offline sim racing experience (and picking up the odd championship along the way), Tim has penned this very handy book on internet sim racing entitled "The Beginner's Guide to League Stock Car Sim Racing". The book is published by Steve Smith Autosports and available through the SSA web site http://www.ssapubl.com/special.html and will soon be available on mail order through Stock Car Racing and Circle Track magazines. This book will be a great help to anyone wishing to become a top notch sim racer and Moms.. this would be a terrific extra to put under the Xmas tree with Nascar1999.

The Sim Gallery --All Americian 100-- has been run and won. The AA100 race is part of the 'United Shorttrack Alliance' series promoted by short track speedster Jimmy McKinley. The race attracted a record number of entries with over 60 cars taking to the Nashville Speedway. Be sure to visit the AA100 special feature exhibition while you are here.

Aussie drivers. As you are reading this your comments are being read by the powers that be at Multiplay. Multiplay are the Australian licencees of the Total Entertainment Network (TEN) who, as you probably know, host the online racing in the US. I was optimisticly hoping we could have swamped them with names but we did gather a genuine 34 names and more importantly some great comments. Lets just keep our steering wheels crossed. I will let you all know what the response is to our petition as soon as I do. Thanks to you all... Dale Hillan, Anthony Bulloch, Ian Lake, Shane Wooden, John Messenger, Glenn Jay, Philip Ford, Sid Chapple, Bruce Kennewell, Todd Galvin, Dave Mansell, Trevor Blevins, Tnuc Gnik, Vail Riches, Guy Leach, Greg Colgan, Byron Forbes, Phil Abel, Roy Harrington, Jackson Gothe-Snape, Ivo Franic, Julian, Nigel Nichols, Clive Nicholson, Ben Coleman, Paul Alesi, Ashley Clifford, Keith Lonergan, Mat Holloway, Jeff Male, John Peter-Budge, Scott Janson, Dan, Ian Titterington, Peter Holt

Good racin' and enjoy the pictures... Dave 'the Curator'