Made a slightly altered version of the current Kyalami layout. I've mainly made the corners so that they are generally faster and longer than they would be in real life, as an attempt to recapture the feel of the old Kyalami circuit (fast and flowing)
Hungaroring as if designed in the 60s. Let's be honest. 20km mega-circuits were more a thing of the 30s. By the time of the 60s, most new Formula 1 circuits were already around 5km. However, corner design was fundamentally different than today. During the 60s, fast sweeping corners were popular, and few of the angular shapes of modern circuits can be found in tracks from that era. Also, any corner which kept a constant radius would probably have been considered boring.
Pick any European capital. Design a Formula E track (2.0 to 3.5km long) using only existing roads. Then design a Grand Prix track (4 to 6.5 km) which uses at least half of your Formula E track. For the GP track, you are allowed to add purpose-built track sections, but don't tear down any buildings.
Each European capital may only be used once, first come first serve.
pasta_maldonado wrote:The stewards have recommended that Alan Jones learns to drive.
Staking my claim on Dublin before any of you bloody foreigners do!
Phoenix Park has been hosting circuit motorsport events for longer than any other venue on the island, so where better than one of Europe's biggest parks?
The ePrix circuit is centred around the Qemal Stafa stadium, with a few Formula E-style short straights and low-speed corners. The F1 circuit branches out more north, going across the central river before returning through a twisty section towards the Mother Teresa Square. It then passes the stadium, moving into a forested park with a purpose-built final sector before returning to the motorway.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Rio Haryanto for the win! He upon seeing me accidentaly paint Belgian flag rotated 90 deg to right tommykl returns from the bathroom tommykl reads the chat logs tommykl has a stroke
UgncreativeUsergname wrote:Last visited three hours ago... pi's around here somewhere....
Yeah, I'm still here. Just a bit busy at the moment, so I forgot about this competition. Real life university is getting in the way. But I'll post results this evening.
pasta_maldonado wrote:The stewards have recommended that Alan Jones learns to drive.
Sorry, I wanted to give more detailed results, but I've got no time for that at the moment. I have to say, the gaps from 1st to 7th are really small, and I kept changing my opinion.
1.UgncreativeUsergname 2.Bleu 3.Ataxia 4.Roblomas52 5.peteroli34 6.Simtek 7.Novitopoli 8.AxelP800 9.TheFlyingCaterham 10.Normal32 DSQ AdrianBelmonte (Formula E track exceeds maximum length) DSQ Dexter249 (Both tracks exceed maximum track length)
pasta_maldonado wrote:The stewards have recommended that Alan Jones learns to drive.
The New Old Hockenheimring The old Hockenheimring is gone and it isn't coming back... in its current location. But a vague shadowy rich visionary is taking proposals for a new one.
Make a brand new track in Germany, at least 200 km away from the real Hockenheimring. Don't cut down any trees, and try to leave space for runoff area and garages. F1 isn't actually coming here, so you don't need that much space, but be reasonable.
The gimmick is that you have to include at least four acceleration zones 750 m or longer, none of which can be the pit straight. You can have more than four and you can put in whatever twisty parts you like, but the long acceleration zones have to make up at least half of the track.
Rob Dylan wrote:Mercedes paying homage to the other W12 chassis by breaking down 30 minutes in
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Rio Haryanto for the win! He upon seeing me accidentaly paint Belgian flag rotated 90 deg to right tommykl returns from the bathroom tommykl reads the chat logs tommykl has a stroke
Rio Haryanto for the win! He upon seeing me accidentaly paint Belgian flag rotated 90 deg to right tommykl returns from the bathroom tommykl reads the chat logs tommykl has a stroke
Honestly, I'm not even sure where I was going with this. It sort of started off as a kind of half-baked replica of the old Hockenheim that I gave up on before hitting 2 km. I kind of like the twisty bit though.
Late last year the British Army's 7th Armoured Brigade left their Hohne-Fallingbostel-Celle garrisons in northern Germany to return to the UK for good. The old live-firing training area probably won't get used much now, so let's repurpose it... although there might be a bit of UXO to clear...
CoopsII wrote:Wouldnt it be lovely if just for once someone said "I really want to emulate Boutsen and get a decent, if not spectacular, result with some solid points".
4. Simtek I like the track from 5 km onwards. The complex is reminiscent of an indoor track, inadvertently one-upping the Hungaroring's constant karting comparison. The rest, though, is repetitive even for a Hockenheim-inspired track.
3. More_Blue_Flags The corners are good from 3 km onwards, but the way all the straights have a bunch of kinks in them, on a purpose-built track... so annoying.
2. AxelP800 I don't know what you were thinking with the southeast section, but the rest is really good. You did the same gimmick twice with the 6-km hairpin and the last corner, but overall the track looks pretty fun.
1. Bleu Fun corners and terrain for most of the track. The two corners between 7 and 8 km feel awkward, but that's about it.
Ultimately it went to Bleu because his track seemed to embrace its nature, whereas Axel's felt like a normal track with the corners really far apart for some reason.
Rob Dylan wrote:Mercedes paying homage to the other W12 chassis by breaking down 30 minutes in
