Scanner is finally working
. I will be posting up here when something good arises. Let me just state a few things first.
1. I am not an artist. I can hardly draw two parallel lines. Therefore, width will not be shown along with some other idiosyncrasies. I will post an example soon.
2. I think that, if the racing is good enough, people will find a way to watch it. Spectator viewing is the absolute least of my concerns. If they really want to, they will watch regardless.
3. I think that some broad descriptions as "3rd gear corner" are useless. 3rd gear in what exactly? Third is much different in say, a W105 Mercedes to an Audi R18 e-tron.
4. I think building for passing is not exactly ingenious. If someone really wants to get past, they'll find a way. If they need a place built specifically to pass someone (unless of course something in the rules has gone horribly awry [cough, cough, F1]) they may want to look into a new line of work.
5. I think Tilke isn't a bad designer. I have read the circuit design rules for F1 (over 100 pages long!!!) and it's a wonder anything gets done. I also understand why he did what he did to Hockenheimring (spellcheck thinks that means chickenhearted). He had two goals there. Slow down the circuit, and address security problems in the forest section. What I don't get is why he elected to destroy the forest. I would've put a removable barrier wall there instead uprooting it and placing a gravel trap there.
6. I have little to no interest in racebikes (no offense). I did race in an online sportsbike racing series in 2005 and another in 2009, but those used street circuits amazingly enough. There was also another with Motocross bikes. The only time I ever looked into superbikes was when I was investigating the V5 engine, which Honda apparently used for a few years there.
7. I have a varied motorsport history. INNSC (NASCAR based with heavy use of road courses), GTRS (GT cars), GTES (Prototype and GT including some endurance races), SSEC (endurance, never as a driver), RRWC (extremely exotic and abnormal BoP'd cars), WSOS (once with motocross bike, once with ATV) WOMC (once with ATV), FES ('endurance' sprints), etc.
8. I tend to use interconnected designs. That is, a smaller circuit contained inside a large master circuit, with the two being combine-able. Further, I favor rounded corners to square off ones.
[breathes]