F1 Fanatic

Just made a course on the outskirts of the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu. The elevation changes may be slightly ridiculous and you’d have to bulldoze a few trees, but all’s fair in the name of Formula 1…

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5067336

(To be run clockwise)

If Singapore is going to chnge their configuration, as has been suggested on certain other F1-related blogs, then here is my suggestion:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5075909

The length makes this ones impractical, but I love the shape:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5078826

The even more prestigious GP of Hook. I can’t decide whether it should be clockwise as I plotted it or ant-clockwise. It’s too long for modern F1, probably too narrow even for 1950′s F1, but I like the shape, and even some of the plainer looking bends are tighter than they look and have great camber. Also the pits goes past my house.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com?r=5079296

Also a considerably less narrow version. It also goes through a business park with Virgin Media and BMW offices, so it’s a realistic commercial prospect (the Virgin headquarters actually act’s as a run-off around the 4km mark).

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5079351

It’s actually quite funny looking it up. The operational headquarters for Virgin Media in USA is New York, in the UK it’s Hook, a poky little village where you can’t get cable TV. A little less grand than New York, in case you didn’t realise, but it gives us a vague link to New York, and if they get a GP I demand we get the same.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5321703

First race in Israel? Twisty but very quick! Seems like it would be fun to drive, and it would be good for just about any series.

Just South-West of Spa. Not very realistic for modern day F1, but great for historic touring cars or something.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5321984

Dito for the “Nipponring”.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5322049

Where I live, it wouldn’t be a street circuit, it would be a rally stage