A Blank Sheet of Paper...

[bedsrcmcc]

Tell me...

If someone gave you a blank piece of paper and said draw me your ultimate off-road track for 1:10th scale buggies/trucks, what would it look like?

I only ask as we are hoping to secure the opportunity to build one next year and I've already trawled the interweb for inspiration and was just interested to know what others would want for their ultimate track...

I'm not going to spoil you with my initial ideas, but I'm keen to see what flows...

[David Church]

I would suggest a start with an all astro track, without too many features, get the rostrum sorted and race on it a few times. You will have the opportunity to drive many different track layouts, and you will get a feel of what you would like and where to put it.
Try to avoid single track layouts, variety does help!!!

Jumps, many people want to jump now a days, make sure they are consistant across the whole face of the jump, doubles are cool, tabletops are safer for all levels of the drivers.

Make some technical section as well, you don't want the track too fast!

And good luck.

[DaSloth]

I'd say aim for an open first couple of corners so you avoid too much crashing at starts. Then as DC says, keep your options open so it can be changed alot

[antnee]

Nice open flowing tracks are better than tight twisty ones

[Lee]

What looks good on paper doesn't always work in reality, start with lots of space and something simple and work from there, you can't have a great track right from the word go, unless you are RHR but they had lots of experience and also knew what they wanted and some had already been there and done it.

[PTRU]

I would talk to people who have been building tracks like

Paul Bradbury
Lee Martin
Tony Truman
Kevin Lee

They have the knowlege of what you will be looking for.

[RogerM]

Take a look at Kidderminster or Stotfold, add a couple of well constructed jump sections as DC suggests and I think you will be on to a winner.

As DC says keep options open, I think we can have something like 192 layouts at Kidderminster!

For me the worst thing is to get to a tack that is little more than a collection of jumps, there is no flow and I don't find it fun to drive at all. I was a little concerned when I first went to PDA for that exact reason but fair play to the PDA guys the track is really hard but when you get it right it flows far better than you'd imagine from looking at it! PDA is the exception that proves the rule .. can't wait to get back there!

You need to have some flowing sections (although no reason why they can't be over elevation / surface change features like Kiddy) where people can get involved in a bit of racing, over taking. Well that is my opinion any way.

Hope that helps and I look forward to racing on the resulting track when it's built, the more permenant tracks in the UK the better if you ask me

[Smartalec]

Originally Posted by bedsrcmcc

Tell me...

If someone gave you a blank piece of paper and said draw me your ultimate off-road track for 1:10th scale buggies/trucks, what would it look like?

I only ask as we are hoping to secure the opportunity to build one next year and I've already trawled the interweb for inspiration and was just interested to know what others would want for their ultimate track...

I'm not going to spoil you with my initial ideas, but I'm keen to see what flows...

Scott, get on down to Stotfold (not a million miles from you) and have a word with Kev Lee (he's there most Sundays). He will be able to point you in the right direction as he has years of experience building astro layouts.

As DC says, make it interesting enough that it's not boring and make it so it can be varied.