They are original posters? Surely you don't mean from actual races. They are for fictional races for the game Grand Prix Legends, as image placeholders for the tracks, from Big Ass Pile Of Maps, BAPOM.
There was no Vancouver Grand Prix. This I am quite sure
I've already printer out 4 of the images on the color laser here. They look nifty keen on my wall.
From the about:
"The first GPL add-on tracks started appearing in early 2000, largely conversions of tracks from earlier Papyrus games. These new tracks came with placeholder images for the 'pages' that appear in the GPL user interface: art-less 'covers' with nothing but the name of the track on a solid black background, empty 'map pages', and so on.
They didn't match the look-and-feel of the 'real' tracks that came with the game, and that upset me. I'm a big User Interface guy. I've been doing UI work for over 20 years, starting with the Macintosh in 1984, and later moving on to X11, Windows, and Web design. To my mind, good UI design is a treat, to be encouraged... and bad UI cannot be tolerated!
My goal at the time was not to embark on an Ambitious Art Project. I had no training or interest in 'art' at the time. The goal was simply to replace a glaring 'wrongness' with something at least marginally competent.
Around that time, there was this guy named Don Hodgdon, who was a prolific poster over in the old rec.autos.simulators newsgroup. Don had produced new covers for several of the add-on tracks, but hadn't addressed the 'map' issue. I contacted him with a proposal to join forces and put together a comprehensive collection of program sets for all the add-on tracks, one that would have a look-and-feel consistent with the original GPL tracks. I'd do the grunt-work of producing all the map pages, we'd use his covers where possible, and the two of us would take turns whipping up whatever additional covers were needed.
And so BAPOM (the "Big-Ass Pile Of Maps project") was born. You see, the maps were the 'new thing', as well as my baby, and I named the project... But in restrospect, it was a terrible acronym, as the maps quickly ceased to be the focus of the project, and arguably, never were. These days, BAPOM just stands for BAPOM, and that's that. The underlying acronym is deprecated."
http://www.trilon.com/bapom/posters-largeformat.htm
