Track Designing Competition

[The_Laskinator]

ah, didnt think of using CAD, genius

 

[Jimlaad43]

ah, didnt think of using CAD, genius

Photoshop? Paint.net. There is even online mage modifiers if you google it right.

 

[kedy89]

 

[Jolero02]

Ok here is my attempt(sorry for my crappy handwriting, I have dysgraphia and couldn't be bothered to download CAD as I don't have Photoshop on my current computer and my computer is absolute crap so it would have taken a while to upload)
The Swedish GP(Both the track and Border of Sweden are attached)

 

[rubaru]

I'm officially offering my CAD services for the next challenge that might benefit from it.

 

[Jimlaad43]

@rubaru's Croatiaring is the winner!

 

[rubaru]

@rubaru's Croatiaring is the winner!

Thanks @Jimlaad43 hopefully it was the layout and not my graphics that got it for me. I really enjoyed that challenge, though, and hope to see it again.

I want to try something a little weird that I saw with success on another website I used to visit for track design challenges. Find a ski resort anywhere in the world and place a new racing circuit there. Use the existing ski runs as possible routes so you don't have to cut down more trees. Yes, it will be steep (like S/F at COTA), but please be mindful of cliffs. I will be checking topography for conflicts. As usual, 4-7km, 16-22 turns. Identify in the text where the pit lane and S/F line are, and make sure you have 2 decent DRS activation areas. You have til 25 Jan, around 1800 GMT.

 

[Jolero02]

Damn this is hard- this is my best effort so far:
Sölden Ski Resort GP: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/m/?r=7011077&rf=1
Pits: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/m/?r=7011078&rf=1
The main 'streight' does go through trees(so does the pits, the streight would have to be changed anyway because of the pits) but the rest of the circuit goes through ski paths.

 

[rubaru]

Ok maybe this one is dumb and no one wants to do it. I can change if you'd like something more fun.

 

[Jolero02]

Ok maybe this one is dumb and no one wants to do it. I can change if you'd like something more fun.

I liked it- it's just quite hard to find a location that is suitable and doesn't have 1000000 turns

 

[Jimlaad43]

I was trying to mix it up by using Bobsleigh tracks, but even that was hard to find surrounding roads with straights long enough.

 

[rubaru]

Ok let's switch it up then, give me til lunchtime for a new challenge

 

[rubaru]

Alright here's a new one for you. No deadline really, I'll just wait til entries stop coming in.
The 1958 and 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix were held at Circuito da Boavista in Oporto, Portugal. This 7.33km anti-clockwise circuit had 12 turns and traversed many different paving types, including asphalt, cobblestones, even tramlines, and lacked good overtaking opportunities. Oporto has been successful holding motorsport events recently on a shortened and safer version of the circuit, and F1 wants to try coming back.

1) Reconfigure the circuit, but keep the original general location and spirit of the layout.
2) Increase and improve overtaking opportunities.
3) Minimize changes in pavement types, especially cobblestones. The tramlines are no longer in use, so you can ignore them as if they can be paved over.

 

[Jolero02]

Alright here's a new one for you. No deadline really, I'll just wait til entries stop coming in.
The 1958 and 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix were held at Circuito da Boavista in Oporto, Portugal. This 7.33km anti-clockwise circuit had 12 turns and traversed many different paving types, including asphalt, cobblestones, even tramlines, and lacked good overtaking opportunities. Oporto has been successful holding motorsport events recently on a shortened and safer version of the circuit, and F1 wants to try coming back.

1) Reconfigure the circuit, but keep the original general location and spirit of the layout.
2) Increase and improve overtaking opportunities.
3) Minimize changes in pavement types, especially cobblestones. The tramlines are no longer in use, so you can ignore them as if they can be paved over.

Any length restrictions/recemendations(personally would prefer to keep roughly the same distance)

 

[rubaru]

Any length restrictions/recemendations(personally would prefer to keep roughly the same distance)

Whatever you want. The original circuit is 7.33km, which puts it right on with Spa at 7.00km

 

[Jimlaad43]

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7012286
2 straights more than 1km long, some faster corners, and chicanes aplenty to break up straights, allow for runoff that isn't someone's house and to be overtaking opportunities. I don't put chicanes in for the sake of chicane, I think about where they should go from a practical and racing point of view.

 

[The_Laskinator]

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7012298
felt the roundabout things could be used, yet another tilke feature ive used lol

(pitlane http://imgur.com/a/C806X)

 

[Jolero02]

Yes there's 27 corners(depending on what you view as a corner)
Yes I did chop off roughly 1/3 of the streight.
Yes it's probably not really realistic in today's f1, even with the chicane added on the first main turn after the kinks.
Yes there is quite a bit of cobble and narrow sections
But I couldn't resist as the circuit seemed too good to waste
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/m/?r=7012319&rf=1

 

[kedy89]

@rubaru
It was worth a shot going with something new & different. For me personally it's just that I don't want to spend much time looking for a suitable location. Rather have one given where I can try a few things straight away.

 

[Nelson Ullinskey]

I could maybe still use another chicane along the S/F straight, but other than that here's mine:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7012397