Lustigson
6 May 2005, 17:11
Yesterday night, searching for a replacement track for Magny-Cours, I stumbled upon a nice track in central France called Circuit du Valle de Vienne. It has a couple of good features, but I managed to improve on it a bit, as to make it ready for the French Grand Prix in the near future.
http://img174.echo.cx/img174/9486/valdeviennemap27we.th.gif (http://img174.echo.cx/my.php?image=valdeviennemap27we.gif)
First thing I had to do was improve on the short main straight -- it is only about 500 m long. There's isn't enough room to make it as long as I would have liked, but I managed to lengthen it to about 675, 700 m, which should be enough. Otherwise I changed a couple of corners to make them more suitable for modern Grand Prix racing, like the (in)famous slow corner-long straight-slow corner configuration.
Here's my view on the track. I made a full-graphics and a track-only version. Tell me what you think and, please, improve where you deem necessary.
http://img174.echo.cx/img174/9197/valdeviennefullgraphics5vr.th.gif (http://img174.echo.cx/my.php?image=valdeviennefullgraphics5vr.gif)http://img174.echo.cx/img174/660/valdeviennetrackonly9kp.th.gif (http://img174.echo.cx/my.php?image=valdeviennetrackonly9kp.gif)
http://img174.echo.cx/img174/9486/valdeviennemap27we.th.gif (http://img174.echo.cx/my.php?image=valdeviennemap27we.gif)
First thing I had to do was improve on the short main straight -- it is only about 500 m long. There's isn't enough room to make it as long as I would have liked, but I managed to lengthen it to about 675, 700 m, which should be enough. Otherwise I changed a couple of corners to make them more suitable for modern Grand Prix racing, like the (in)famous slow corner-long straight-slow corner configuration.
Here's my view on the track. I made a full-graphics and a track-only version. Tell me what you think and, please, improve where you deem necessary.
http://img174.echo.cx/img174/9197/valdeviennefullgraphics5vr.th.gif (http://img174.echo.cx/my.php?image=valdeviennefullgraphics5vr.gif)http://img174.echo.cx/img174/660/valdeviennetrackonly9kp.th.gif (http://img174.echo.cx/my.php?image=valdeviennetrackonly9kp.gif)
