Design an F1 track and WIN £100
18th November 2008, 7:00 by Keith Collantine 12 Comments »
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Ever gazed at Hermann Tilke’s latest F1 circuit creation and thought “I can do better than that”?
Here’s your chance to prove it and win some cash too. Mind Your Own Business podcast – a podcast for businesses – are offering two prizes of £100 each to the F1 Fanatic readers who can design the best ‘realistic’ and ‘fantasy’ tracks. Details on how to enter below.
The competition
There are two different categories you can enter. The winner in each category will scoop a cool £100 (or the equivalent in your currency).
Category 1: Realistic tracks
Your vision of a Formula 1 circuit that could be built. Show us what you think a modern F1 track should look like.
Category 2: Fantasy tracks
This is the category for the most extreme, no-holds barred racing track of the future. Let your imagination run wild!
How to enter
The only restriction on entries is that they must be received by email and they must be received before the deadline of midnight UK time on Friday 28th November.
Aside from that your are free to express your idea in any way you choose: images, text, video, you could even draw a diagram on Quikmaps.
However you must include the following with your entry:
- Full name
- Address
- Contact email address
Send your entries to competition@f1fanatic.co.uk using the subject line ‘Realistic’ for entries in the ‘Realistic’ category and ‘Fantasy’ for entries in the ‘Fantasy’ category.
Best of luck from F1 Fanatic and Mind Your Own Business podcast!
Terms and conditions
(a) The closing date for receipt of entries is midnight UK time on Friday 28th November.
(b) Prize money will be paid within 28 days. Prize money will be paid by Paypal. If the winner wishes to be paid by another means any additional costs of the transaction will be met by the winner.
(c) No employees or family of F1fanatic.co.uk or myobpod.com may enter.
(d) A maximum of one entry per household per category is enforced
(e) In the event of a dispute the editor’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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Contraro said on 18th November 2008, 18:29
Do the FIA rules on track design apply?
Dan Brunell said on 19th November 2008, 4:22
This is awesome. Thanks to Mind Your Own Business podcast for sponsoring this.
BTW: Is this contest open for non-uk residents?
Eric M. said on 19th November 2008, 5:46
Awesome contest. I will definitely have designs submitted in the next few days or so. Shame we can only submit one of each.
What would be really cool is if the winner’s design gets submitted to a video game developer, like the guys who make rFactor or something. Just a thought.
I’m also curious to know if the FIA regs apply to the realistic design (ie, max length= 7km’s).
Stealthman said on 19th November 2008, 5:58
Do we have to watch the podcast to find out who won? It’s just that I don’t have an Ipod.
Keith Collantine said on 19th November 2008, 8:44
Contraro – Nope (that would be way too harsh!)
Dan – Yep anyone can enter.
Eric – Nice idea. I’m trying to get in touch with Codemasters about their upcoming F1 game, and if I can I’ll bring it up with them.
Stealthman – No, winners will be announced here.
kilwa said on 19th November 2008, 10:18
Great , i’ll give it a shot coz i need the 100 :p
Mind Your Own Business Podcast said on 19th November 2008, 22:03
Stealthman – As Keith says, the winners will be announced here.
But you don’t need an ipod to listen to the podcasts. They’ll play on any mp3 player – or your computer – and can be downloaded from iTunes and the Mind Your Own Business website.
Guy
Stealthman said on 20th November 2008, 1:47
Excellent! Will get my design in ASAP…
Pineapple said on 20th November 2008, 17:56
So what program shall we use to send in? I’ve tried looking for track designers on the net but can’t find any.
Adrian said on 21st November 2008, 15:49
Well I’ve got a design for a “realistic” track based on roads I drive everyday that are great fun in a Xsara Picasso (so I can only assume they’d be even better in an F1 car!!). But I’m not sure what sort of format to send it in using – how do I show scale etc….
Don’t suppose anyone has an example they’d be willing to post showing the sort of layout to use…
Eric M. said on 21st November 2008, 22:16
Pineapple, Adrian,
I had a look around for some free drafting software, but didn’t really have any luck. Corel Draw has a free trial, but the download failed before I could try it. Maybe you might have better luck with it. I used AutoCAD myself, since I have access to it through my job.
I think that if you don’t have access to drafting/drawing software the Quickmaps route might be the way to go. It’s easy, and it’s free, plus you can give your circuit a real world setting. Some examples of circuit ideas I drew using quickmaps (not my contest entry, btw):
http://www.quikmaps.com/show/85709
http://www.quikmaps.com/show/60306
Unfortunately Quickmaps doesn’t really give you any idea of how long the circuit you drew is, so scaling could be a problem. But I wouldn’t get too hung up on that.
And if all else fails, you can always do a clean drawing on paper and scan it.
Stealthman said on 24th November 2008, 0:51
Which is what I am doing.