Another question - favourite jump / track feature
 

Please no massive debates on what is good and what is bad.

Please could you just post you favourite jump or track feature, with if possible a picture and why you like it :thumbsup:

Thanks,

G

worksop tabletops-nuff said

the doubles at Batley.....:woot:

eden park bomb hole into table top(running clockwise) so rewarding when u get it right but if u get it wrong ouch!!! oh and stotfold table top sectioning lovely when u find the rythm and get um bang on :thumbsup:

Full left hand section of Bury Metro from first corner dropping down off camber (I think) left, commitment onto the bricks and then down the bank onto the doubel/table top thing which you need to land for when they then have a right hander.

I'm probably unlike most people in that I don't like "big air" for its own sake, but what I do like is sections that reward a good line and a nice balance between fast and slow, with obstacles that need to be negotiated not simply ramped.

From Saturdays 4wd NERCR track I particularly enjoyed the left/right/left-jump/left-tabletop section after the main straight, and also the right/left/kicker-tabletop/right section in the middle. Both rewarded a good line by letting you carry speed, but you also needed to line up the jumps at the right angle and the right speed to clear them quickly too.

I'm not so keen on endless sucessions of constant radius hairpins and jumps that you will clear regardless of approach (a bit like the second half of the NERCR 4wd track).

the back section at southport under the tree's,and the section before the wall of death at stotfold,technical and very rewarding,

i was just going to put that. If you get it spot on, it's mint!!!

not really raced on many tracks but i like jump sections that are not to big as dont like big air{ dint like the triple thing at oz national }

I think you're meaning outdoors northy but i reckon this rhythm feature we put in at Worksop indoors was the business :thumbsup:

Smokin, that looks ace!

I quite liked the big air jump at NERCR.

Also, i agree with Dan regarding Bury.

The double doubles at Austria.

Mild corner into the first jump, have to downslope the 2nd to carry speed and then a slightly bigger gap to the 3rd, have to downslope the 4th then into hairpin.

The corner jumps such as Austria, and York 2008 indoor regional.

The entry onto the straight at Bury - around Banked corner, or over the back, both feels very flowing and rewarding for carrying speed without lifting the front wheels. Lovely. Infact, this is my most favourite.

Chris

Like sosidge said, I like sections that you have to get the line of it correct to be quick [for it to be rewarding]. Rythmic sections are good along with corner jumps, as said by Chris.

Although I havn't raced it, I like the sound of the bombhole into table top, sounds cool :thumbsup:

I like the tripple at coventry as you have various options how you want to take it depending on what the track is like. I generally like feautres that you have an out option if something goes wrong leading up to it. The tripple would of been great at oz if people like me would have had the option to double single. i like the bomb hole into table top at CML. I havn't raced at stotfold or southport so i am looking forward to visiting this tracks. Think it might be a steep learning curve at those tracks :thumbsup:

My favorite track section was probably at the 2004 CRCRC Mid-Winter Race. There was a roller-double-double going from the right to left one lane in from the drivers' stand, ending at the far left of the track. There, you went up on a table-top, turned a sharp 180 left, and came down off the table top. Then you drove down into a pit - at least 5 feet down or so - came up for a short double jump at surface height, went back down into the pit, and then came out, over a small roller, and a sharp left. The whole section required timing and throttle control to do correctly. What was really cool about it was, in modified, over 5 minutes it was faster to go down into the pit, do the double, back down, and drive out. That's how everyone ran in qualifying. But if you needed a really quick lap, and had good car control, you could just punch it the whole way down into the first pit and launch off the double, landing on the downside of the small roller. The immediate left turn meant you had to downside this perfectly though, as even a slight bit too much throttle meant you rolled off into the distance. It made for great racing in the modified A mains, as the top guys were just jumping over each other lap after lap, 2nd place going big to make the pass :D:woot:.

Left side of the "Panoramic" view of the track; the picture doesn't do the depth justice:

http://www.xfactoryrc.com/paul/2004midwest.jpg

(I only had Paint to work with, thus the white space)

More pictures of that track located here: http://www.crcrc.com/gallery.php?alb...26e012cc7234da

AAAAAHHH:drool::drool::drool:. That looks awesome!!!!
Have to say cml bomb hole to table top for me too, soo smooth.
Indoors it would be newbury tabletop, big air:thumbsup:

Any pics of CML bomb hole? That seems a fav :thumbsup:

Cheers,

G

Here's a pic from the first meeting alll that time ago now!

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/cmlra...es/cml004.html

The "ik-kan-mijn-huis-zien-van-hier"-jump at Kampenhout, Belgium.

(traduction= I can see my house from here)
It is sooo easy to jump very high on this jump ... but all time spend in the air, is lost time, so you better stay very low. :)

the tabletop at ozfest 2008... :eh?: :cry:

seriously, I liked the double double at the back of CML Raceway, so nice and flowing when you got it right, it seems to have chagned now though.

I liked it because it rewarding getting it right, it was easy to single-single-single-single but slower, it was not a big air car breaker if you try it and get it wrong.

i prefer the double double (quad) at the back of CML, followed by the double down the hill before the wall of death.
The quad is lovely when you time it right at tuck round the corner tight afterwards.


edit - beat me Chris!

and you are also right about the big double into the down-hill at CML, thats ace too!

you have to get good drive out of the corner to clear it, and the option not to clear it is easily 'driveable'

very satisfying

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Have only just seen the new "Wall of Death" feature at Kampenhout so cant comment on that but the rest of the Belgian GP track is a thing of beauty. Constructed by a man who clearly knows what he is doing with jumps which have corresponding downslope landings (a feature often left out in the UK).
I am so jealous of all the Brits going to Belgium this year - you will enjoy the track.

Actually that's where I snapped my chassis :thumbsup: The boards were pretty lethal if you managed to go off to one side

Wall of death at austria is a pwersonal Fav as it started a revolution.

Triple years ago at comp hobbies was ace!

step up at cactus this year was pretty funky too!

CML RW is having quite a few changes over summer! so hope to see alot of new parts on there!!!!

the quads were ace! but im hoping to improve!

Whooooooop!!!

other than that...no other track in the UK has the nice downsloops and technical sections....its something you truly appreciate when you go to states and people forget bout here!

the bot dot section going on to the table top then bomb hole at eden park,
the best section ive driven for a long time:thumbsup:

trekkker

The two big doubles at Clanfield are pretty awesome for 1/10th, but i think CML has a lot of really nice features, the wall of death, camber changes here and there, the bomb hole / tabletop combination, then the quads, the jump that goes down hill - on a good lap it flows really nice and rewards you with good lap times rather then having to be absolutely on it out of every corner and hard on the brakes which a lot of the UK tracks are like....

Anyone remember the Euro's in 2001, France (St Gaudens)? They had a few really nice sections, a pair of doubles going away from you at an angle before a 160 degree corner on to the main straight which again came at an angle but towards you then a nice right hander followed by a large(ish) jump....

In 2wd you had to come right to the inside, but in 4wd you had to drift wide out of the straight and jump it right on the outside, just clearing a bit of pipe each time – it was awesome.

I loved st gaudens, but it seemed only the Losi cars would take that double double, the B3's didn't like it at all!


I thought sweden washboard whoops section from 2000 euros was pretty ace, I have not seen a nice washboard/whoops section on any other track as good as that one.

this was back in the days before the big meetings got photographed, shame really.

Haha i didn't think anyone else would remember that Sweden track Chris but i was thinking about that whoops section, you had to come to the inside and give it two blips to land on two sets of effectively downsides - that was Quality!!!

As you say that's something we don't get a lot of in 1/10th, i drew up plans for CML a while back to add some in but it would take a bit of work to get them right.... best thing then is you get that Supercross style racing where someone will maybe jump 2, 3 and someone else 1, 2, 2 or even 3, 2 - all the different combinations and lines are what make them work so well for racing!

The jump section at the proline uk race 2007

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/proline2007/index.html

if taken right you could gain a lot of time but were also easy to take if you didn't wanna go balls out.