Race Track Design

[Dunnedriftin]

its open and all, and from what iv heard there is no way drifting is going to happen. the karts can be heard the other side of town

which is a pitty, the photos of the track looked savage!

Noise is the main thing, widing the track woulnt be as big of an issue...

[Robbie Daly Ps13]

That tracks only up the road from me....! Not a hope of us drifting there.....! Still only 1 track.......!

[Alan B.]

whats needed is a spot out away from houses, beside a petrol station to get support from local business (and petrol) and somewhere reasonably enclosed so the sound isn't as bad.

[s13-ste]

this is in the middle of nowhere just too open, more trees on other plots of land and the sound could be filtered

[Robbie Daly Ps13]

I wouldn't say its in the middle of nowhere its just off a main road....! There shoud buid a track in the most remote bogland they can think of like cavan or roscommon or offaly or somewhere....!

[Alan B.]

trouble is farmers are too big of a begrudging shower of cunts to get enough land off them to build one.

theres any amount of land around me that would be perfect for a full on F1 Circut.
theres plans for an airport to be built nearby too which is even more of a plus for the area for a track for noise reasons. i just can see a large scale track going ahead anytime soon.

even the talk of a dublin city track all but vanished quicker then it came about despite the untold millions it could potentially generate for the country.

[DaveM-sport]

Hey!!! I'm a farmer and would love to build a track but I know there would be uproar the minute I put a nail on a planning permission notice
Its just the typical Irish mentality of anything different and new is bad and getting hung up on all the negative points before even thinking about the benefits.


F1 Gran Prix used even be held down the Model-farm road and back in the Curraheen road and Victoria and Dennehys cross about 80-100 years go and was considered one of the best tracks in the championship and had one of the fastest straights.
Might have ended up being something like Monaco if it was still running today (well without all the fancy casinos and 100 ft yachts)

But then we wanted everything English out of the country so we could just play away GAA instead

[Alan B.]

Hey!!! I'm a farmer and would love to build a track but I know there would be uproar the minute I put a nail on a planning permission notice
Its just the typical Irish mentality of anything different and new is bad and getting hung up on all the negative points before even thinking about the benefits.


F1 Gran Prix used even be held down the Model-farm road and back in the Curraheen road and Victoria and Dennehys cross about 80-100 years go and was considered one of the best tracks in the championship and had one of the fastest straights.
Might have ended up being something like Monaco if it was still running today (well without all the fancy casinos and 100 ft yachts)

But then we wanted everything English out of the country so we could just play away GAA instead

ah, i only said that to get a rise out of some of ye

but yeah, anything ike that gets shot down and while the likes of gay and the wooly jumper brigade followers, anything to do with cars and entertainment is going to be flammed despite the good points.

this isn't really what i was looking to get into in this thread.
more justa fun thread for people to have a bit of creativeity if they are at nothing else. thats why i was saying a small sized track for the likes of a group of mates and didnt mentionlocations or any of that jazz.

it's all to see what people think are good track layouts for smaller tracks that wouldnt behigh speed tracks.

[DaveM-sport]

Yeah, I like my track anyway. Might do it better on CAD win I get it working.

How difficult I wonder would it be to just get planning for a small track such as the 3 or 4 acre ones of just the tar and few barriers and nothing much else.

[Alan B.]

well, if ya knew of a spot that had an old road on it already, then yu would just be refurbishing it so would be far easier then going from scratch.