F1 Rejects Track Designing Competition

watka · Post by **watka** » 30 Apr 2015, 23:51

OK everybody, here are the results! But first could I apologise for anyone who thought it was compulsory to include the landing strip or air force runway. Whilst I mentioned aerodromes, I didn't necessarily require the track to be centred around the strip in particular. Nonetheless, I think it was still a pretty challenging template wherever you decided to start.

11. Normal32
There's something cool looking about the zig-zags but ultimately its a series of straights with 90 degree and 135 degree turns.

10. More_Blue_Flags
If I had made a track I would have worked in the launch towers myself! However I would also have tried avoiding having a 3km straight! Undoubtedly a fast track, a strain on the old engine! Red Bulls would DNF here no doubt.

9. UgncreativeUsergname
Fairly classic airfield circuit but fairly uninspiring too, with little challenge being offered to the driver. Can't get over the "national" rather than "international" feel of the circuit

8. Bleu
I can't accuse this track of not having unusual corners. The section to 4km looks like some sort of beak. 8km looks like a really challenging sequence. 10km is unique but ridiculously tight! The main issue though is that it is by and large just long straight - corner - long straight - corner, very stop-start.

7. Warren Hughes
You are right in saying its not an F1 track but nonetheless I'm not a massive fan of tight turns in succession whether its open-wheelers or tintops! You have made a pretty concerted effort to make the best of the plot you choose though, so bonus points for being considerate of fences/buildings etc.

6. tBone
Looks like someone has taken Indianapolis and melted it! Whilst I can imagine drivers battling all the way around this track it just has an awkward unnatural feel to me, some of the corners resemble look like tusks grown off the rest of the track (3km and 9km).

5. peteroli34
Very similar to tBone's track but a lot more natural. Still too many constant radius corners for my liking but a nice effort.

4. AdrianBelmonte_
This track should produce some good racing. The first section of the track looks like an anvil. It ticks the boxes for overtaking opportunities and long sweeping turns but I would like to have seen more challenging high speed turns.

3. Biscione
I like the clever solution to having a home straight that is too long. Other tracks have similar corners to break up straights but here it actually feels necessary and the way the track is designed means it has 2 overtaking spots on the main straight rather than just one at the end. A few right angle turns, although they are smooth apex (ala Brands Hatch) rather than sharp apex. Bonus points for the track name.

2. Simtek
Really like the look and flow of this track. Reminds me a little bit of Sachsenring in how in unwinds itself, except its right handers rather than left handers. It does however lack a big stopping point, I'd also prefer it if the chicane at the start/finish line wasn't there. But because I love Sachsenring its high up on this ranking!

1. TheFlyingCaterham
Just snuck in below the length limit and yet it still feels like it packs so much in to a reasonable distance. Yes, it has long straights but they don't feel out of place plus the longest one is sensibly broken by a chicane. The track overall has very distinct sectors and I like the challenge of the tight "stadium" sections after the long straights which seem to carry the cars from one "zone" to another. Some of the turns around the vehicle assembly centre are a bit tight, but otherwise its marvellous.

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 03 May 2015, 23:13

Bit late of a reply, but I couldn't really think up of a topic in the last couple of days. I've thought up of one though, so yay for me.

CBD GRAND PRIX

So, for this challenge, you have to make a race circuit in the central business district of a town/city. To make it easier for you to find the CBD/central area, it is the place of the city where you are directed to when you search it up on Google/Yahoo/Whatever maps. The circuit will need to be in the surrounding area.

Requirements:
- Must be in the CBD/central area of the town/city
- Must be 3km - 8km long
- You must use existing roads only. You may use the straight line tool if the pedometer decides to have a small fit. Using car parks are ok.

You have until the 18th of May to submit your entries. Good luck

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 04 May 2015, 01:38

I found this park in Brasília yesterday while I was messing around and I am in love with its roads. There is a great design hiding in this park, whether solely within its confines or also using surrounding roads. I've done a few different layouts, but I really can't choose between them. Here's my entry, the shortest of them: http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=419669

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 04 May 2015, 10:56

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6600313

A track in Montevideo, This track has probably the quickest medical response of any track given the fact that it goes around 4 hospitals

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 04 May 2015, 11:37

My attempt. The top-half definitely runs round the town centre. If the whole lot has to remain within the vicinity of the town centre, I'll tweak it.

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 04 May 2015, 19:19

If you can just pass through the centre for a bit, my entry is this, in Tromsø: http://gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6534460
If it has to be entirely within, it's here, in Bergen: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6600835

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 04 May 2015, 21:32

Circuit in Riga, Latvia.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6600974

Benetton · Post by **Benetton** » 04 May 2015, 23:38

GP of America in Atlanta, GA.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6601051

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 05 May 2015, 00:47

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6601092

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 May 2015, 08:08

My entry will be none other than the (GP Rejects canon) world famous Edinburgh Street Circuit! This version, in constrast to the 1950s version, has its layout tweaked slightly thanks to Edinburgh Uni demolishing Bristo Street between then and now.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6601249

This track should be pretty unique compared to the rival tracks in these challenges for just being so darned fast. Edinburgh's CBD is so small there's no option but to use roads from the neighbourhoods immediately surrounding the CBD, which gives lots of options rather than being pure grid-iron style like Glasgow and many other major cities.

I am aware this track breaks the distance limit. It does it for good reason. The average speed will be so much higher than for an run of the mill CBD track, the lap time difference means this 6.4 mile lap will be faster than the average 5 mile (8km) CBD track.

Track Guide
The track begins in Holyrood Park, adjacent to the Queen's official Edinburgh residence (Palace of Holyroodhouse) and the new National Parliament building. The cars fly down Queens Drive, griding to a halt with a smooth but acute right turn. Fans can climb the adjacent Sailsbury Crags for a panoramic view of the circuit. A short blast past the Commonwealth Pool, and then a brief right-left section to send the cars onto Melville Dr and The Meadows. Drivers will have their foot to the floor through the tree-lined section that marks the edge of Edinburgh's CBD from the Bruntsfield district, until it spits them out into Lothian Rd. After a double hairpin chicane (!!), the road winds directly underneath Edinburgh Castle, ascending the cars to the Royal Mile. It quickly goes downhill from there, driving underneath North Bridge and past Waverley Station (Edinburgh's major rail terminus), before looping back up the hill and over North Bridge (see the over and under here). Finally, a little over a mile-long flat out section between the end of Princes St and Meadowbank Stadium, and the cars turn right for the final time and loop back towards the start/finish at Holyrood.

More_Blue_Flags · Post by **More_Blue_Flags** » 05 May 2015, 11:15

The Georgetown, Penang street circuit. Whatever it's other merits, you can sit at the front window of the Hong Kong Bar on Lebuh Chulia and be trackside!
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6601334

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 05 May 2015, 19:11

Behold the logistically questionable Dublin Street Circuit! It winds its way through the city centre, passing notable landmarks such as the GPO, the Spire, the old Houses of Parliament and the university from which I am currently procrastinating an exam, Trinity College Dublin. The College buildings along the 'pit straight' on Pearse Street are vacant and due to be demolished, so we'll co-opt that area and the rugby and cricket pitches behind them as the pit area, garages etc.

After passing through a slightly nondescript part of town the track crosses over the River Liffey, after which it takes a pleasant arc around the back of the Custom House. Progressing down the quays (where the pedometer made a weird zig-zag, that's not meant to be there) it then takes a right turn up O'Connell Street. This is the main boulevard of the city, named for the 19th Century campaigner for Catholic Emancipation Daniel O'Connell (the exam is on his period in Irish history...). Moving on to Henry Street following a left-hander around the aforementioned Spire, the track is largely functional at this point to get back to the O'Connell Bridge and across the Liffey again. Back on the Southside, we fly past College Green, onto Nassau Street, before a tight manoeuvre through Lincoln Place. Two left-handers get us back on to Pearse Street.

Much of the track is quite narrow and so overtaking as well as spectating opportunities would be limited, but in terms of a track which showcases the major sights of Dublin's CBD while providing a mildly engaging driving experience it should get the job done!

Edit: forgot to mention that this would also feature this rather dangerous but distinctive tunnel under the railway track on Sandwith Street, just before the last turn. Not to mention the paved pedestrianised areas on Henry Street, which would be an interesting experience for a race car. Idiosyncratic track!

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 05 May 2015, 20:45

I designed this track around the Champs Elysees several years ago; I might as well make it my entry here.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6601859

Looking at it again it's pretty point-and-squirt; but hey, maximum speeds will be high and some of the biggest stops are in the widest parts of the track which should encourage overtaking. Moreover, Arc de Triomphe! Tuilerie Gardens! Place de la Concorde!

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 05 May 2015, 21:14

Here's mine http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6601882

Back-up track if the first one doesn't met the rule will be posted later

tBone · Post by **tBone** » 09 May 2015, 19:32

La Paz, Mexico: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6605523

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 16 May 2015, 19:58

It's been a week since the last track, FlyingCaterham! Get on with it!

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 16 May 2015, 20:26

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:It's been a week since the last track, FlyingCaterham! Get on with it!

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:You have until the 18th of May to submit your entries.

He really decided to take his time with this

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 16 May 2015, 22:27

Simtek wrote:
UgncreativeUsergname wrote:It's been a week since the last track, FlyingCaterham! Get on with it!

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:You have until the 18th of May to submit your entries.

He really decided to take his time with this

I didn't notice the date. Apparently he doesn't know we already have rules about that....

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 17 May 2015, 21:29

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:
Simtek wrote:
UgncreativeUsergname wrote:It's been a week since the last track, FlyingCaterham! Get on with it!

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:You have until the 18th of May to submit your entries.

He really decided to take his time with this

I didn't notice the date. Apparently he doesn't know we already have rules about that....

No, I must not

Anyways, I will try to do the ratings for the tracks tonight. Entries are now closed,although no one has posted anything for a while.

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 17 May 2015, 23:27

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:
UgncreativeUsergname wrote:I didn't notice the date. Apparently he doesn't know we already have rules about that....

No, I must not

Anyways, I will try to do the ratings for the tracks tonight. Entries are now closed,although no one has posted anything for a while.

The rule is that after forty-eight hours of no submissions, entries are closed. Whether edits count as new submissions is up to the particular judge.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 20 May 2015, 01:54

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Anyways, I will try to do the ratings for the tracks tonight. Entries are now closed,although no one has posted anything for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YIJQ1jgEI

Sorry, I watched it for the first time in ages the other night. Great movie!

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 20 May 2015, 18:54

Simtek wrote:
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Anyways, I will try to do the ratings for the tracks tonight. Entries are now closed,although no one has posted anything for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YIJQ1jgEI

Sorry, I watched it for the first time in ages the other night. Great movie!

Indeed. I'll give it one more day, and then I'm making another challenge if this one doesn't get judged so things keep going.

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 21 May 2015, 23:18

Okay, here's something really simple. If TheFlyingCaterham posts his rankings before this new one ends, pretend it never existed.

*Make a completely new circuit 2-3 km long.
*Leave space for the pit lane. This is a random club circuit, so you don't need a Bahraini luxury paddock, but be reasonable.
*Leave space for runoff, but again this will be leniently applied.
*It doesn't have to be next to a major city, but don't put your track in the middle of the Amazon.
*If you do not have fun whilst making your track, you will be disqualified. Happiness is mandatory.

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 22 May 2015, 03:29

Okay, so, here's my entry, based on the frustrated "circuito galego de velocidade", near Cerceda, a world-class track whose only building built, is this

Let's see the facilities, as you can see, great ilumination

http://oi51.tinypic.com/20b2041.jpg

From this side you can enter on the track...

http://oi52.tinypic.com/30vdd28.jpg
http://oi55.tinypic.com/34fmiox.jpg

...And from this one you can exit it

http://oi55.tinypic.com/29atfa0.jpg

Let's see the offices

http://oi51.tinypic.com/hs5b80.jpg
http://oi52.tinypic.com/24myrf9.jpg

Inside the offices, as you can see, very young and stylish looking

http://oi51.tinypic.com/21obwb8.jpg
http://oi53.tinypic.com/r8vype.jpg
http://oi53.tinypic.com/2e51rtx.jpg

Back side of the offices from the main straight

http://oi55.tinypic.com/9i43mf.jpg

This track have one of the best asphalts of europe, always on good shape

http://oi56.tinypic.com/2w6h07b.jpg

And the layout (totally fictional) of the track is this

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6616069

Record lap: Will Stevens (1:07.847), achieved with an overpowered Dacia Sandero

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 22 May 2015, 17:07

The advertising slogans suggests that the Disney Parks are the happiest places on Earth, and where dreams can come true. And a lot of tracks nowadays have their Mickey Mouse sections, so here's Le Circuit de EuroDisneyland Paris.

The start/finish straight is Main Street USA heading towards Sleeping Beauty's Castle, with Main Street Station providing the backdrop for the grid at the start. The track then turns left into Discoveryland and weaves between Buzz Lightyear's Laser Blast, Space Mountain and Cafe Hyperion before taking a scenic wooded path into Fantasyland and past my favourite ride with an annoying catchy tune, It's a Small World. Following that is a quick blast towards Adventureland and Pirates of the Caribbean alongside Captain Hook's Pirate Ship. Once you're past the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse, a couple of restaurants are passed on the way into Frontierland and past the Big Thunder Mountain lake and towards Phantom Manor, before taking an access road back to Main Street USA, looping in front of the City Hall and the home of the horse-drawn trams, the tram shed (opposite City Hall).

The pit lane would be immediately after the end of Main Street USA, going past the Hundred Acre Wood performance stage and rejoining by It's a Small World. It's not spacious, but if it's a club track, not many pit stops will be expected, but there would be space for mechanics to wait if their car ever needed to pop in for a service.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 22 May 2015, 19:08

Phoenix Park, Dublin. I hope the American ambassador's OK with it. Like my Cape Canaveral entry, I'd probably run it in the opposite direction to what the design shows, but hell, maybe I'm wrong. And here are seven smilies to show that I have achieved true happiness in designing this track:

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 22 May 2015, 20:15

Simtek wrote::

They remind me of spacehoppers...

More_Blue_Flags · Post by **More_Blue_Flags** » 23 May 2015, 09:44

Wells Station Club Circuit in the northern suburbs of Canberra, with the pit lane on the inside of the start/finish straight. I used to own a house that overlooked the first turn, which the kids and I would have enjoyed (wife, maybe not so much)...

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com?r=6616989

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 23 May 2015, 17:00

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6617254

A nice, flowing track in the Italian countryside, with plenty of space for pits, paddocks and stuff like that. The former, quite fast part uses an already existing road, while the latter, trickier part passes through some fields, as does the final straight.
Italian speakers will get the "fun" part just by turning to the "Satellite" view

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 23 May 2015, 19:48

novitopoli wrote:http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6617254

A nice, flowing track in the Italian countryside, with plenty of space for pits, paddocks and stuff like that. The former, quite fast part uses an already existing road, while the latter, trickier part passes through some fields, as does the final straight.
Italian speakers will get the "fun" part just by turning to the "Satellite" view

You used an existing road.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 23 May 2015, 20:19

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6617390

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 23 May 2015, 21:21

The ultimate Tilke design placed in Kuwait, near the Kuwait City Airport.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6617429

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 24 May 2015, 10:45

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:
novitopoli wrote:http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6617254

A nice, flowing track in the Italian countryside, with plenty of space for pits, paddocks and stuff like that. The former, quite fast part uses an already existing road, while the latter, trickier part passes through some fields, as does the final straight.
Italian speakers will get the "fun" part just by turning to the "Satellite" view

You used an existing road.

Sorry, I just didn't read the "completely new" part :facepalm:

I'll redesign it later

tBone · Post by **tBone** » 25 May 2015, 15:50

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6618784. The pitlane would be between the main straight and the water.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 26 May 2015, 22:33

What's the point in golf courses? They're just big, privately owned patches of land occupied by badly-dressed men hitting balls with sticks. Wait a minute... big, privately owned patches of land? Sounds like the perfect place for a racetrack!

So, in my parallel universe I've bought out Boldon Golf Club, about 15 minutes' drive away from my home, ripped up the course and laid down some tarmac, and now proudly present to you Boldon Park Circuit!

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com?r=6620019

Boldon Park packs plenty of interest into its 2.2km length, its 11 corners offering a variety of challenges. First up after a short pit straight, Club Corner is a right-hander which opens out on exit before flowing immediately into a very long left-hand bend. This leads into Farm Curve, a fast right-hander with a gravel trap on the outside; although this is the smallest run-off area on the circuit, it is still big enough to be acceptable for the sort of machinery that will race here (compare with some of Knockhill's run-off areas, for example). Farm leads onto Fairway Straight, the longest straight on the circuit, which is bisected by a very shallow kink.

The straight ends in the biggest stop on the circuit at Downhill Hairpin, after which the cars accelerate through a left-right kink before a short straight leads to the long, sweeping right-hander at Hylton Bend. This is followed by a fast left-hander as the cars head back towards the pits, but with arguably the trickiest section still to negotiate - the fast left-right flicks of the Esses, where finding the correct racing line is crucial. From there it's another short straight to the final corner, Cemetery Turn, which leads back onto the pit straight.

The pit facilities themselves will be located on the left-hand side of the pit straight, allowing easy access from Dipe Lane. The existing clubhouse and car park areas will be used for spectator access and hospitality.

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 27 May 2015, 23:57

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6621006

Here it is, a challenging circuit sporting the coolest-"sponsored" runoff ever at the 1km mark.

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 28 May 2015, 02:49

Yep, I did something thatI don't think anyone has done before on the track competition, or at least the within the last couple of months.

Track direction is anti-clockwise, with nine corners. Max capacity for the circuit is 28 cars. The blue lines are the walls, and where it llooks like the blue is shaded are tire barriers. As for elevation on this, there is a slight rise in turn 2 that was affects turn 6, and turn 4 is slightly downhill. There is also a slight dip in turn 5 and the turn 7/8 complex. Turn 9 is slightly banked.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 28 May 2015, 03:04

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:

Yep, I did something thatI don't think anyone has done before on the track competition, or at least the within the last couple of months.

Track direction is anti-clockwise, with nine corners. Max capacity for the circuit is 28 cars. The blue lines are the walls, and where it llooks like the blue is shaded are tire barriers. As for elevation on this, there is a slight rise in turn 2 that was affects turn 6, and turn 4 is slightly downhill. There is also a slight dip in turn 5 and the turn 7/8 complex. Turn 9 is slightly banked.

Two questions: 1. How long is it? And 2. Are the rankings for the last competition going to be posted?

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 28 May 2015, 03:26

Simtek wrote:
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:

Yep, I did something thatI don't think anyone has done before on the track competition, or at least the within the last couple of months.

Track direction is anti-clockwise, with nine corners. Max capacity for the circuit is 28 cars. The blue lines are the walls, and where it llooks like the blue is shaded are tire barriers. As for elevation on this, there is a slight rise in turn 2 that was affects turn 6, and turn 4 is slightly downhill. There is also a slight dip in turn 5 and the turn 7/8 complex. Turn 9 is slightly banked.

Two questions: 1. How long is it? And 2. Are the rankings for the last competition going to be posted?

1. I would say around 2.2km, even though the scale is completely wonky

2. Probably not. I know, I'm a lazy bugger but I have keep on forgetting about and half not bothering to do it. So all my fault there. I did do ratings for yours and peteroli's tracks though

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 30 May 2015, 05:38