The Newquay Airport Challenge

[formula1fan]

The Real Story
Newquay Airport is Cornwall's largest commercial airport, and is on the same site as the former RAF St Mawgan. There are massive redevelopment plans in place for Newquay Airport to expand.
The Fictional Story
The plans include a racing track to be built on the taxiways and runways, to be between 4km and 6.5km in length. Here's my effort, at 5.084km in length. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2431686
Let's see what you can do with Newquay Airport.

[Stig]

Here's mine. 5.36 km, 3.33 mi. It runs counterclockwise.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2431797

[ScotsBrutesFan]

Here's mine. An endurance series circuit and a more conventional length variation.

The Blue long circuit would be smoothed out to 16 corners
The Yellow Shorter circuit (which omits the T6/7 chicane) has 13 corners
The Red pitlane would have a usable length of 340 metres

The distances are correct to Google Earth.

[TilkeWannabe]

A good, simple track, Stiggy. It would be very very fast indeed.

I like SBF's a lot too. A very attractive shape for an airport circuit.

How do you do the whole paddock area and the pit area things like garages and electrical stuff like telemetry? It just came to me with this airport circuit mullarky.

[ScotsBrutesFan]

Originally Posted by TilkeWannabe

How do you do the whole paddock area and the pit area things like garages and electrical stuff like telemetry? It just came to me with this airport circuit mullarky.

If this is addressed to me I'm not sure what you mean by garages and electrical stuff.

[TilkeWannabe]

No, what I meant was how would a governing and/or an organising body do the whole temporary pit area that is fully functional like a normal pit area with fully-operational electicity and places for things to plug in like computers and TV screens so it's not like the dark ages. Seeing as I've never watched ChampCars around Cleveland's airport track, I don't know how they would've done it.

[ScotsBrutesFan]

It's done the same way as every other circuit, or event thats held in an area without a ready supply of high volumes of electricity (concert in an open park), even building sites... namely large portable generators with kms of heavy duty wiring and then step down boxes some with standard sockets others with industrial (think power tools) connections.
The generators are simply hired in.

[snowdog140]

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2434040

Ok its 3.989km so can i be let off? Not sure how feasable that track would be, but it could be an interesting mix, some straights and tight bends there

[mattt]

Heres my attempt

long track 5 km, short track 4 km

both clockwise

[xlr8r]

Heres is my attempt.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2434477

It is a little short at only 3.6km long because I did not like any of my longer designs. It is a counter-cockwise circuit. Pits ands paddock would be on the taxiway south of the smaller runway. Overtaking spots would be in turn 1 and 6. Overall I feel it a short but sweet airport track.

[ScotsBrutesFan]

Snowdog:
I think the infield section would be a little tight, but with the right barriers it could just about be do-able. Particularly as the entry to that section is off a slow corner, and the exit could be shaped to be clear of any barriers.
Excuse the little tip, but with gmap-ped, the with smaller steps for the corners you can really produce a shape that suggests sweepers or a late apex etc.

Mattt:
I like that one, from experience of airfields that wiggle section would be a too tight, but for a few £/$/€ of tarmac, to fill in the gap of the first wiggle to produce a short straight into the esses out onto either the short or long loops would still work great.

xl8r: I really like that, with the plus of using that really nice bit of curving taxiway as T4 with T5 creating esses onto the runway. I think that would make a really great Touring car circuit.

[snowdog140]

Originally Posted by ScotsBrutesFan

Snowdog:
I think the infield section would be a little tight, but with the right barriers it could just about be do-able. Particularly as the entry to that section is off a slow corner, and the exit could be shaped to be clear of any barriers.
Excuse the little tip, but with gmap-ped, the with smaller steps for the corners you can really produce a shape that suggests sweepers or a late apex etc.

Fair enough, I had no idea how to use that site, so it was all guesswork, plus I've just realised how much like Sakhir it looks