F1 Fanatic

After playing around with this a bit in the pedometer, I’m going to restate the design briefing with a few amendments based on what I’ve learned:

Okay, your next mission – should you choose to accept it – is to find an oval course and to make an oval-road course hybrid.

- Your circuit should be at least four kilometres long, and no more than six and a half kilometers long.
- You must use at least two corners of the oval in your design, but you may not use any parts of an existing road course.
- You should treat the existing oval as a boundary: you may not build any part of your circuit outside of it unless there is are existing roada – such as access or service roads – that could be used to get in and out.
- You may demolish any existing structure in the circuit infield, but I’d suggest you keep the pits intact. If you build outside the oval, you may not demolish anything outside it.
- Designs that incorporate a crossover (be it a Suzuka-style figure-of-eight or a rally-style super-special stage) will be looked upon favourably. This is not a prerequisite of your design, and choosing not to include it will not count against you in the judging.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com?r=5811778

6.49km

Indianapolis MotorSpeedway’s new and much improved road course. I removed many of the slow useless corners and added a much more flowing fast set of corners. I’ve also used both straights and much more of the banking which should be much better for the fans and also create much more overtaking than the original road circuit. I also succeed in not knocking down buildings or the golf course in the middle of the circuit.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5812015

The most unique oval in the world just got unique-er! :P

The first corner is the banked turn 1 of the oval, leading onto the back straight. Here, turn 2 is thrust upon the drivers, the tightest corner on the track will lead to a lot of overtaking opportunities as drivers struggle to slow down in time so soon after the banking, for once you might not want to be the last of the late brakers as you may just find yourself hurtling down the slip road. This is closely followed by a chicane, to slow the cars for the following infield section.

Sector two starts with a short straight, before cars arrow into a small apex-ed right-hander, similar to 130R, before barreling along the back straight, and over the crossover bridge. A sweeping left curve follows this, before drivers find themselves in a replica of one of the ‘snail sections’ of Shanghai. This slings the cars back onto the oval, but they better watch out for stray Nascars, as they are now going the opposite way to the norm!

Sector 3 begins with a Parabollica style corner, but with a twist. The first half of the corner, on the oval, is slightly banked, but the second half, leading into the infield once again, is not! Under the bridge they will head, completing the crossover section of track, into a mini Becketts/Maggots section, drivers have to know where to lift and where to push here if they are going to deliver the ultimate lap. The straight that follows is the perfect set up for the final section, drivers take a breath before zooming into a double apex-ed hairpin, directly followed by 2 sweeping curves that lead them back onto the pit straight, ready for another lap of this exhilarating circuit!

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5812076

For Indy I wanted to keep a lot of the oval, taken in the proper anti-clockwise direction. Then I wanted quite a sharp turn off the oval, to break up that fast section. There are then some fast esses, followed by a very fast, long left which tightens at the end. After a gentle sweep, the circuit would cut under itself (some excavation here, and the crossover section would be slightly bridged). There is then a hairpin, to provide one decent overtaking spot, and the only really slow corner on the track. this then sweeps back to the start.

I chose Daytona International Speedway.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5812307

Lap Length: 5.4529 km
Racing Laps: 56
Total Distance: 305.3624 km

Start/Finish Line: Bullet Dot
Sector 1: Dot #2
Sector 2: Dot #4

Guys, please read the design brief again:

You must use at least two corners of the oval in your design, but you may not use any parts of an existing road course.

Now, I understand that this is a little difficult given that things might be a bit cramped, so I’m willing to be flexible on this. I’ll take it on a case-by-case approach, but to give you a general idea of what I’m willing to tolerate, @brickles has put forward a suitable design. On the other hand, @kingshark, you’ve just followed the Daytona road course and added a bit, so I don’t think it adequately meets the design brief.

I’m only telling you guys this because I want you to have every opportunity to win this round. I’d hate for someone to lose because they accidentally missed a rule.

I don’t have a problem with it – some people might want to recongifure their designs – but this round closes in 24 hours (when tomorrow’s round-up gets posted). If you’re too late, that’s too bad.