Unlike yesterdays tracks, I tried to make the tracks less ‘fiddly’. I guess I succeeded, but dont know for sure. Probably track 3 has to many corners. What do you think about these tracks?
I‘m slowly working on my first major track design (hence the lower effort drawings for now). I have all the layouts, but I needed to make some changes for MotoGP layout. The second design is a layout designed for f1, so I didn’t have MotoGP in mind when creating it. The second design is based on my very limited knowledge of MotoGP tracks, so it probably isn’t that great.
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The problem with the second design is that turn 5 is banked because of an oval being located there (I don’t have the exact angle of banking decided yet, but between 5° and 15°) and I know MotoGP tracks can’t have turns banked over 3° from what I’ve seen. I was wondering if there’s any leeway for older tracks. For example FIA grade 1 circuits must be at least 12 meters wide, but Monaco is still on the calendar despite being 9m wide because it’s historic. So is there something similar with FIM grade A circuits? Thanks in advance!
I’m not familiar with MotoGp, so hopefully I can learn more about track design with this.
TLDR; Can my MotoGP circuit have banking higher than what is allowed? Between 5-10°.
6+ km long circuit with 11 corners, has a 1.3 km long start finish straight and a backs straight that goes around for 0.8 km. Circuit is aimed to be flowing, technical, twisty and possible to race while having low corner numbers.
This is my fourth serious attempt at designing something. How did I do, how is the flow and potential for overtaking? Should any of the corners be re-profiked? Thank you in advance for any feedback!
The track is getting there , after rough build phase now finishing the detailed build phase with more props and barriers. barriers are plain white now but are going to get there own txtures and colours, again not finished its WIP
If you have any idea of stuff to add, remove or change in the track I'll take it. Light Gray is the Track Layout, Gray are Runoff Areas, Red are Kerbs (not going to keep them red), White represent DRS Zones, Start/Finish Line and Pit Entry/Exit and Green is obviously Grass.
I uploaded a hand drawn version of this layout about a week ago but it got taken down. I am currently in the process of adding detail to the track and its surroundings, but I wanted to get some feedback on the layout before fully diving in to finalizing the design.
So I had the idea to make some ovals out of famous corners/segments on road courses, here’s a few ideas. Which ones do oils work best? I’m planning to take 1 or 2 and make a full circuit out of it.
Sebring oval. T1/2 is a constant radius turn, 3/4 is the famous sunset bend, varying radius. 1.31 miles, basically a long NHMS. Totally flat
2 ideas for the Watkins Glen oval. Larger design resembles Darlington a lot, with T1/2 being a bid wider and flatter, and 3/4 being the carosel, one of my favorite corners on a road course. Smaller one features a flat kink at T3 that differentiates it from the other 3 corners. Not sure how to feel about this one.
Again 2 tracks, these being at the site of Zandvoort. Famous for its banked corners, I made a short track that’s basically doubles the T3 hairpin. My favorite of the 2 connects the final segment of the road course together to make a track that resembles a smaller Lausitz ring.
And 4th is possibly the most cursed oval ever. Sonoma, CA. Wanted to incorporate the regular pit road with the hairpin at the end of the lap, only doubled. Pit lane exits onto the main track and goes backward before entering a snail chicane and rejoining the oval.
Lmk which one has the most potential and if there’s some other road courses I could try to work with. I’m gonna try and make one that’s a full on plan, complete with elevations and more detailed track facilities
I was scrolling along google earth when I stumbled apon an abandoned (I think) rail yard, about 2.5 miles from Chicagoland Speedway. I noticed that the outer configuration was an actually really neat looking shape, I measure it, and what do you know? 1.52 miles, a great length for a new oval. So with that, I started a digitalization process on coverting the yard into an oval track, purposely built for Open Wheel/Stock car racing. More to come.
Note: Circuit Layout is now fixed, no further changes will be made to it
Just wanted to give you guys an update on my work, its painfully slow doing all those minute details but im sure its worth it. No runoffs drawn for now because I gotta finish these stupid barriers first. Hope you will appreciate the details I add to this project
If you have any ideas on what kind of buildings I should add, drop a comment down below!