Assetto Corsa Grand Prix Karting Indianapolis
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the largest sports venue in the world and the home of the Indianapolis 500. Now we have made it smaller into the size of an outdoor karting track, suitable for Formula Student cars. There are two layouts, the "brickyard" oval and the road-coarse in the infield.
2023 update version 2.0
Sausage kerbs
The tires at the inside of corners for preventing cutting corners are replaced by sausage kerbs. These will still prevent you from cutting corners, but when hitting them it will be less dramatic.
3d trees
The old 2d trees are replaced by the newest 3d trees. For seeing these trees you need to have Content Shaders Patch version 0.1.79 (or later) installed. With older CSP versions or no CSP you will still see the old 2d trees. We have tested the impact on FPS, and in our tests it had no significant impact.
Track lights
Not all older GPK tracks did have track lights. With the 2023 updates all tracks will have track lights.
Video and images are from version 1.0 (these will also be updated soon)
Grand Prix Karting
Grand Prix Karting tracks are F1 tracks and iconic tracks with the layout of the original track but the size, look and feel of real world karttracks. No big runoff areas, but modern wide kerbs, pit not on the infield but on the outside of the track, and a pitbuilding which is also a grandstand. These tracks are not a resized conversion of existing tracks but scratch build. Not laser scanned (because they are fiction) but handmade, which was a bit of a challenge with some tracks with a lot of elevation in the track and the terrain surrounding the track.
The Grand Prix Karting Indianapolis is a bit different from other Grand Prix Karting tracks. The others are somewhat closer to a regular outdoor karting track and a bit less to the original circuits, but the Indianapolistrack is much closer to the original track.
The Assetto Corsa GPK tracks are dedicated for Formula Student and the rFactor GPK tracks are dedicated for karting.
Online racing
Would you like to race online on these GPK tracks with the MAD Formula Team MFTC3 Formula Student car against people from all over the world? Then join the simracing.gp Formula Student community, and race with us in the FSGP Series. The series offers short, fast-paced races across the year, competing in GPK tracks
Formula Student
Formula Student is a competition involving universities from all over the world. Students from these universities develop, build and race these purpose-built, single-seater racecars against other universities in competitions that take place all over the world during the summer months. Formula Student is probably the most prestigious engineering competition at a student level.
MAD Formula Team
MAD Formula Team is one of these teams, representing University Carlos III of Madrid across Europe. The team is a relatively small and young team composed of over 50 students from various degrees, and currently fully focused on designing and developing the MFT01, the 2021 challenger. The team developed the MAD Formula Team MFTC3 mod for Assetto Corsa, and you can test it out for free here: https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/mad-formula-team-mftc3.36690/
Credits:
Track build by @Nitro McClean, @rmi_wood & @Ofitus21
Track lighting and 3d trees added by @zuno toto
3d tree models by @zuno toto & @MJaY_8 & @El Locho (GT planet)
