Yannick's "4 in a month" thread

[Yannick]

Thanks guys for the thumbs up. January has been busy so I didn't make it round to design 4 in that month. February will be short like every year so maybe 3 will be something to aim for.

Here is the first one. When I started out with it, I was having something fast in mind, but it turned out a little differently. Slow corners kept coming. And then suddenly, I found some room on the drawing sheet, enabling the possibility for a crossover. This track is totally improvised. I hope it doesn't show too much. But feel free to edit out the rough spots. Thanks.

The circuit is located in a hilly region with woods, runs anticlockwise, is somewhere around 6.2 kilometers long and includes elevation differences of around 30 metres.

[bio]

At first sigth it looks good. I guess it's a pretty fast one, but the technical parts are just as awesome - especially the oneafter the tunnel. BTW, is it a tunnel under the track, or a bridge over it?

One more question: why did you opt for placing the paddocks and pitlane on the outside? There seems to be enough place inside and then there would be no need of a tunnel for the pitlane exit.

Still, thumbs up from me.

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[Teretonga]

So a long track mixture of a forested supertrack, a mixture of Watkins Glen, Mid Ohio and Elkhart Lake. I like it a lot. I don't mind the outside pits....
you can put the spectator areas on the inside and that actually contains a lot of things.

Its very fast coming off the bridge/flyover back to running underneath but thats not a problem at all.
All in all I like it. some fastr challenging corners, getting away from the stop- start attempts to create passing places.

[LuiggiSpeed]

I see it very "american" too, seems like a natural circuit in a really big place, I can't quite imagine the vehicle dynamics but there are plenty of different places to find out..

[Purist]

I'm not sure just how good I think the racing would be.

What I will say is that on first sight, some of the shapes reminded me of the Hong Kong street circuit from Gran Turismo 4.

[Yannick]

It's been a while since posting my previous track. And it will be a while until the next. So for the time being, here is another circuit of 5.8 kilometers in length and running anticlockwise for you.

This one was improvised a minute ago but it fits the design philosophy I had when I started out designing tracks: back then, I was inspired by the old Silverstone, Österreichring, Monza and Montreal's Île de Notre Dame, well, basically because I did not know many others. So there always had to be long straights and at least one big radius corner going round 180 degrees to drive through in 4th gear. A hairpin is optional. Some 90 degree corners, too. Anything else is used to set the circuit apart from its colleagues on the calendar.

I hope you enjoy this one, because I might have to retire from this board for a while because of time constraints having to do with work.

[Yannick]

Despite not having received any replies on the previous track, here is my 2nd in short succession, which is a surprise to myself even.

I have no idea if I should run it anticlockwise or mirror the picture and run it clockwise. What would you prefer for this 4.8 kilometer long road circuit?