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andae23 said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

Alright, who won?

From the 13 entrants, there were a lot of good circuits to choose from. James Brickles, Dylan Lopez, Matt90 and Prisoner Monkeys created some good looking tracks. Runner-up is the very first entrant, Browny, who used a large portion of the Nordschleife and added the thing it really lacks – a straight. But the winner managed to complement the Nordschleife, while keeping the flow of the circuit. This week’s winner is… @sam3110!

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sam3110 said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

Awesome!

Keeping on the old track theme, I want to see a return to former glories on the European stage.

So please take any former formula 1 track in Europe, from Brands Hatch to Estoril, Mangy-Cours to Istanbul, and everywhere in between and renovate the track to make it suitable for the current f1 cars.

Purpose built tracks only please, no renovating some obscure street circuit that only held one or two races

If you’re unsure just run it by me

Oh and the knocking down of buildings etc. Is ok, as long as it isnt excessive (no cleaving through the nearest high street!)

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JPedroCQF1 said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

@sam3110 Just to clarify, do you want us to renovate the tracks on the actual site of the track or to take the layout of the circuit, change it and put it anywhere?

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Prisoner Monkeys said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

Here is my attempt at taking Istanbul and turning it into an old-school circuit:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5717845

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JPedroCQF1 said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5802073

So I renovated Estoril, as it was the home of many good races (1985 springs to my mind…) and it’s in Portugal, my home country. I took some of the old circuit and put parts which I thought would make the circuit more fluid and faster.

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matt90 said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5802077

Not sure what you’ll think of this, as it uses existing purpose-built sections, new sections, and public roads from the original circuit. The public roads could be widened in places to make them more suitable. If this isn’t good enough, let me know.

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Browny said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com?r=5802082

I modified one of my favourite tracks Zandvoort, I extended the run up the hill by adding even more fast flowing corners including two massively fast right handers rejoining the original circuit. The track then bypasses the hairpin with the creation of a multi-apex fast corner similiar to turn 8 in Turkey. The back straight is now extended to create more overtaking.

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Nick said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5802160

An easy fix for Imola: get rid of two chicanes, loosen it up a little bit and it could be some great fun. Apologies if I’m unintentionally copying someone from the De-Tilkefication thread.

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sam3110 said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

All the above are fine, I just didn’t want someone taking, for example, the Lisbon street circuit, completely redesigning it with just one corner from the original and claiming it as a redevelopment.

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Kingshark said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

For my project this round, I renovated the Belgian Circuit of Zolder.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5802178

Obviously let’s get to the basic statistics first:

Track Length: 4.4916 km
Racing Laps: 68
Total Distance: 305.4288 km
Start/Finish Line: Bullet Dot
Sector 1: Dot #1
Sector 2: Dot #2

I’ve made quite some changes to the Zolder Circuit.

For starters, the first corner is now much deeper, hence making the pit straight longer, the curve is also a bit sharper, hence braking earlier to improve overtaking, but for the turn itself to remaining challenging.

Next, the 5-6 corner complex which was formerly known as the Kleine Chicane is now completely flat out and become a very fast, sweeping 130R-esque corner, although perhaps not as fast and a bit sharper.

Following that, the chicane ahead of what is now known as the Termalenbocht has also been taken out, and now these corners are taken almost like the two Lesmo curves from Monza.

Afterwards, the Jochen Rindt Curve, which was previously much tighter, has now been extended another 300 m further. The turn itself has become faster, but also longer. Similar to the everlasting turn 5 at Hungaroring. Then, to return to the normal circuit I have added a very fast right-left S curve.

Lastly, the final chicane before the pit straight has been flattened out, hence the main straight has become much longer. However, the new final Esse-bend is still curvaceous enough for the driver to think twice before taking it flat-out.

That is my newer version of Zolder Circuit.

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GeeMac said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

I’ve reworked Anderstorp because I quite like the thought of having a Swedish GP on the calendar again. The original layout had one to many long 180 degree corners for my liking, so I’ve tried to include a few highspeed flowey bits and a couple of overtaking spots.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5802252

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James Brickles said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5802849

A small redesign of Watkins Glen. Aimed at increasing overtaking opportunities but losing none of its awesome flow.

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rob lomas said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

@James-Brickles

It said Europe I’m afraid

BTW got problems with the computer At home so may I post my track at school tomorrow?

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Dylan Lopez said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5803101

This is my Official Entry at Le Mans in France
The new sections keep the nature of the current circuit

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Prisoner Monkeys said 3 months, 3 weeks ago:

Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentina

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5803301

I tried to address many of the issues with both the old and new circuits. The old layout favoured cars with turbo engines, and so wouldn’t be too exciting in this day and age when engines are built to a formula. I felt I needed to do something about the long straights, and as awesome as the giant corner is, I couldn’t help but feel that today’s cars would produce so much downforce that it would not be a problem.

The circuit introduced in 1995 was, in a word, castrated. It was a glorified go-kart track; whoever designed it tried to make the longest possible circuit in the smallest possible space. So I tried to reconfigure it to have a few slower bends for overtaking, and a few flowing bends to break it all up. I also moved the start/finish line and ran the circuit anti-clockwise so that the first two corners would be very quick, hopefully making for interesting starts.

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