Racing tracks with 'dual carriageways'
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- 17th June 2016, 21:03 at 9:03 pm #322719Keith CollantineKeymaster
Seeing the ‘dual carriageway’ section on the Baku circuit made me wonder how many other circuits have something similar?
The first example that sprang to mind is the Norisring, where F3 and the DTM are racing this weekend, but I’m sure there are more. Here’s the Norisring 20 years ago in the spectacular ITC days:
17th June 2016, 21:59 at 9:59 pm #322720MathersParticipantOne of the madness tracks I’ve ever seen is the Palanga circuit in Lithuania: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palanga_circuit
It hosts a 1000km endurance race every year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_kilometrų_lenktynės
The track doesn’t have complex runoff area layouts or special barriers – they literally race down one carriageway, turn round at a gap in the barrier, race down the other dual carriageway, take the next junction (having passed a motorway services) and start again.
This video gives an indication of what it’s like: (featuring the Gelzinis brothers of Porsche Carrera Cup GB fame and many, many women)
17th June 2016, 22:32 at 10:32 pm #322721paulgilbParticipantOne famous example was the AVUS in Berlin, which hosted the 1959 German GP. The circuit was basically a long section of dual carriageway with a hairpin at one end and a steep banking at the other.
18th June 2016, 12:42 at 12:42 pm #322733Craig WoollardParticipantThis video doesn’t really do it much justice, but Cadwell Park:
18th June 2016, 13:11 at 1:11 pm #322754BullfrogParticipantThe hairpin at the Long Beach Grand Prix – some layouts did it again at the other end of the circuit
18th June 2016, 16:08 at 4:08 pm #322788hunocsiParticipantOld Monza with the double loop comes to mind, although both lanes went the same way there.
18th June 2016, 16:08 at 4:08 pm #322789KaIIeParticipantThe Helsinki track (that hosted DTM/ITC, FIA GT and F3000 in 1995-1997) had something like that.
Start of the 1997 race:
The three different layouts: http://theracingline.net/racingcircuits/racingcircuits/Finland/Helsinki.html
18th June 2016, 16:16 at 4:16 pm #322790the_sigmanParticipantThe Punta del Este Formula E tracks has a dual carriageway.
19th June 2016, 9:23 at 9:23 am #322888Keith CollantineKeymaster@Mathers Had forgotten about Palanga! Craziness.
19th June 2016, 9:33 at 9:33 am #322891sam3110ParticipantHas there ever been a racing game that has recreated the old Monza layout? I’d love to drive around it, and obviously that’s not going to happen in real life.
The Berlin E-Prix had a dual carriageway, the failed Qingdao Indycar circuit too, as did the second Edmonton layout
19th June 2016, 11:18 at 11:18 am #322902hunocsiParticipant@sam3110 I’m pretty sure I saw the old Monza downloadable for rFactor (as pretty much all tracks are :) ). The version with the banking may come under the name Brianza, not Monza.
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OK, just googled that, it was created by the game’s makers in the first place so it should be good, I probably tried this before then: https://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Brianza20th June 2016, 9:10 at 9:10 am #32308020th June 2016, 16:48 at 4:48 pm #323093Keith CollantineKeymasterAnother one just occurred to me – IndyCar’s short-lived Baltimore circuit:
21st June 2016, 16:02 at 4:02 pm #323185HUHHIIParticipantCircuit Gilles Villeneuve with its hairpin.
22nd June 2016, 8:44 at 8:44 am #323188Adam BlockerParticipant@huhhii The hairpin at CGV is not a dual carriageway. During the most of the year it is just a two-lane road that goes around Parc Jean Drapeau.
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