Track design thoughts...
 

We've posted a couple of tracks in another thread and I thought it might be good to create a thread about tracks so that everyone has a chance to give some input...

To recap, a couple of tracks have been suggested for the next couple of meets:

For the 17th:

http://www.oople.com/forums/attachme...1&d=1389445947

For the 24th:

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4568a098.jpg

Anyway, this is more light hearted. I came up with these two (had a spare hour...) based on real tracks:

Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...psd6b79ccf.jpg

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps15b738ec.jpg

Road America:

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7f914ee2.jpg

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3fc68fc8.jpg

I am not suggesting we do these tracks, I'm simply trying to spark some discussion :)

Tbh they all look good,
Best thing is to try them and see what happens,the one with the straight up the middle usually leads to a few more mishaps with batting cars landing on it as a car hot foots it up it,but it is a nice one to race on though

These look ace mate - problem with recreating F1 circuits is that they often have empty spaces, but these fill the floor quite well. Could you also do Interlagos?

I could do :)

It is all about finding the ones that could fit in the rectangular space easily and using a lil creativity to fill out the space well... I could have done Indianapolis, that was the easy route ;)

Maybe also look at Moto GP tracks as many of these have a rectangular footprint and have a good tight in-field:

Estoril
Sachsenring
Mugello
Valencia

Interlagos...

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...psbc4d6431.jpg

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps16afeb8f.jpg

Might be a lil dangerous at Subida Los Boxes as touring cars leave the track at 50 MPH and go into someone's face ;) Maybe a couple of obstacles to create a chicane before it.

PS: Estoril is probably perfect!

Estoril:

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...psc0363286.jpg

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...psd9e3328f.jpg

Now Estoril looks cool!

I suspect these would be a pain to put together though :) But it would be cool to have at least one track based on a real life circuit :D

........ If only Martin could build a 1/10 scale version of the Laguna Seca corkscrew. Here's my Mini going down it ;)

http://www.kimini.com/Diaries/2006No...0corkscrew.JPG

These are awesome.

That mini looks cool. Yh the corkscrew would be brilliant.

That's my Porsche behind it :thumbdown:

Scott.

And my F1 is in front……….:thumbsup::p

LOL! great imagination guys :)

So any chance we could try one of these? I quite like the look of Road America track.

Corkscrew you say.......... hmmmmm :thumbsup:

Sticked this, so post all track plan ideas in here for discussion and possible future use. Cheers

OK, we have discussed replicating 1:1 race tracks. But how about replicating world class RC tracks?

I give you Oulu 2013 EFRA European Championships, the real track:

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...psa155683f.jpg

As recreated in VRC:

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...psa88b1752.jpg

As recreated by me, and mirrored for safety:

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps83f49702.jpg

A couple of videos of the real track:

Looks like it will fil the hall nicely.

I say "if it looks good, run it!"

I like the look of that!, the buggies might find it a bit tight but everything else should be fine. :thumbsup:

Well, they should drive something a little more precision and finesse ;)

Anyway, let's try it then. :D

Gui will be pumping in some practice laps on vrc now. :thumbsup: