Track design thoughts...

[cunawarit]

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:



For the 24th:



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

Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya





Road America:





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

[reg]

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

[Chris56]

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?

[cunawarit]

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

[Chris56]

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

[cunawarit]

Interlagos...





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!

[cunawarit]

Estoril:

[Chris56]

Now Estoril looks cool!

[cunawarit]

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

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

[Dave Dodd]

These are awesome.

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

[siddus74]

That's my Porsche behind it

Scott.

[leedolby77]

And my F1 is in front……….

[cunawarit]

LOL! great imagination guys

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

[msmith105e]

Corkscrew you say.......... hmmmmm

[Dave Dodd]

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

[cunawarit]

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:



As recreated in VRC:



As recreated by me, and mirrored for safety:



A couple of videos of the real track:

[Chris56]

Looks like it will fil the hall nicely.

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

[leedolby77]

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

[cunawarit]

Originally Posted by leedolby77

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

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

Anyway, let's try it then.

[Robbiejuk]

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