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Originally Posted by turbo_brick
After a couple of comments at a meeting this week what type of track do you like best??
1.American style as I've heard it calleed, big air, fairly flowing.
2.How we used to do it years back, tight technical with a few small jumps.
Any reasons why aswell??
Peter
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I'm sure you know how I voted Peter
Personally I like to see a track that follows a couple of rules. All the B's.
"Big air is for Bashing"
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"Build for the Bottom heat"
I have two issues with big air. First is the risk of breaking your car. Second is the nutters who take too much big air and hit everything that moves (human and machine) when they land. I don't mind big features, but they shouldn't give a clear advantage to the "banzai" approach. We had a few issues at Shields with people taking too much air, Bill had to issue a warning to calm things down.
As far as building for the bottom heat goes, the track needs to forgive the mistakes of people who are still developing their skills. You can still build a challenging track that is navigable by every driver at the race meeting. Teesside on Sunday showed that, the carpet-to-slippy section in the centre (unintentionally) caused a lot of lower-heat drivers to understeer off onto the main straight, if the track here was a bit wider it wouldn't have been an issue as the cars would have had more distance to scrub off speed.
But I don't pretend to have the same opinion as the bulk of buggy drivers.