Captain Hammer wrote:While it's a roundabout, it's actually quite a big one - its perimeter is about 300m. Compare that to most of the ones you see on suburban streets, which usually have a perimeter of less than ten metres.
Still a bad idea though - there's really only one entrance and exit to a roundabout when you're racing. Any attempt at an overtake will be... messy.
No one complains about the Grand Hotel hairpin....
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Captain Hammer wrote:While it's a roundabout, it's actually quite a big one - its perimeter is about 300m. Compare that to most of the ones you see on suburban streets, which usually have a perimeter of less than ten metres.
Still a bad idea though - there's really only one entrance and exit to a roundabout when you're racing. Any attempt at an overtake will be... messy.
No one complains about the Grand Hotel hairpin....
Yeah, but the entrance to that isn't as pronounced as most other roundabouts.
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BlindCaveSalamander wrote: Still a bad idea though - there's really only one entrance and exit to a roundabout when you're racing. Any attempt at an overtake will be... messy.
No one complains about the Grand Hotel hairpin....
Yeah, but the entrance to that isn't as pronounced as most other roundabouts.
Ste Devote used to be a small roundabout before it got paved over during the track renovations and most of the drivers managed to get around there fine... most of the time.
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mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
It's certainly not a bad idea. You've cleary identified roads that have potential; now it's just a case of making the bits that connect them together interesting. Here's a few, straight off the top of my head, that I think would work in Durban:
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
They are all shorter than Monaco! They'll never happen...
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Bernie will inevitably lose his patience with Melbourne, and take away the Australian Grand Prix. And because Barry O'Farrell is only capable of making policy based on doing exactly the opposite of what works or is a good idea, Sydney will get the Grand Prix. With that in mind, here is a proposed route that is expensive, unrealistic, too long, and inconveniences most of the eastern suburbs:
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
Captain Hammer wrote:Bernie will inevitably lose his patience with Melbourne, and take away the Australian Grand Prix. And because Barry O'Farrell is only capable of making policy based on doing exactly the opposite of what works or is a good idea, Sydney will get the Grand Prix. With that in mind, here is a proposed route that is expensive, unrealistic, too long, and inconveniences most of the eastern suburbs:
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
The Seattle Circuit from the Gran Turismo games. Unfortunately, a parking garage now exists where the chicane by the Seahawks statium is. So I compensated by putting a chicane just after it.
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
I'm sorry, but there's no possible track layout that can top that. None.
You mean top the a1 ring because what I did is use as much of the original track as possible and make it how Prost wanted it just a bit wider with some more run off space
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Does listening to a dog licking its balls get you excited?
That's between me and my internet service provider.
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I'm sorry, but there's no possible track layout that can top that. None.
You mean top the a1 ring because what I did is use as much of the original track as possible and make it how Prost wanted it just a bit wider with some more run off space
Yeah, I'm saying the A1-Ring has the Osterreichring beat, hands down.
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UgncreativeUsergname wrote:Using basically every road in the entire country to satisfy the FIA's 3.5-km requirement, I made a very rejectful track for a Grand Prix of Vatican City.
BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Yeah, I'm saying the A1-Ring has the Osterreichring beat, hands down.
1 word for you BOSCHKURVE
Meh, I'd rather have the Remus Kurve. And the Gosser Kurve. And the Castrol Kurve.
The osterreichring was renound for being a fast flowing track and the turbo cars took the SLOWEST corners in 4th gear + Alan prost said that all tracks should be changed but the osterreichring should not just add run off + in 1986 the cars were approaching boschkurve at 200 mph need I say more
Mexicola wrote:
shinji wrote:
Mexicola wrote: I'd rather listen to a dog lick its balls. Each to their own, I guess.
Does listening to a dog licking its balls get you excited?
That's between me and my internet service provider.
One of those journalist types. 270 Tube stations in 18:42:50!
roblomas52 wrote:The osterreichring was renound for being a fast flowing track and the turbo cars took the SLOWEST corners in 4th gear + Alan prost said that all tracks should be changed but the osterreichring should not just add run off + in 1986 the cars were approaching boschkurve at 200 mph need I say more
So what? The old 8 mile Spa circuit was fast and flowing, but I'd take the modern version any day. Same thing here.
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mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
Very good the main part of the circuit is old beggarwood lane because it is Basingstokes answer to the esses at suzuka. I actually live in a different part of Basingstoke which is possibly the most rejectful town in Britain
Mexicola wrote:
shinji wrote:
Mexicola wrote: I'd rather listen to a dog lick its balls. Each to their own, I guess.
Does listening to a dog licking its balls get you excited?
That's between me and my internet service provider.
One of those journalist types. 270 Tube stations in 18:42:50!
Very good the main part of the circuit is old beggarwood lane because it is Basingstokes answer to the esses at suzuka. I actually live in a different part of Basingstoke which is possibly the most rejectful town in Britain
My location says otherwise. Lowestoft has about 50,000 sets of traffic lights, a harbour bridge that goes up at least 10 times a day on the main road through town, no music shops and the place is chock-a-block full of chavs. A relief road was built through the southern part of town a couple of years back, and they routed it to the EXACT same point where the old main road reached the harbour bridge. Now there's always massive traffic jams.
It would make for a ridiculously hilarious circuit mind you.
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East Londoner wrote:My location says otherwise. Lowestoft has about 50,000 sets of traffic lights, a harbour bridge that goes up at least 10 times a day on the main road through town, no music shops and the place is chock-a-block full of chavs. A relief road was built through the southern part of town a couple of years back, and they routed it to the EXACT same point where the old main road reached the harbour bridge. Now there's always massive traffic jams.
It would make for a ridiculously hilarious circuit mind you.
Two level crossings on that circuit. I think the only 'circuit' to cross railway lines was the Oporto track used for the first few Portguese Grands Prix in the late 1950s, but I could be wrong...
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
