Race Track Design

[Alan B.]

Heres a hypothetical situation for ye who are bored and feeling creative,
sort of following on from a conversation that popped up on another site a while back.

If you had a site, and where to build your own track on it for you and small group of others to slide on, how would you go about laying it out?
keeping it realistic, so no tunnels, loop the loops or stuff like that
but a reasonable sized track say in an area of 3 acres, how would you lay it out?

feel free to use pen and paper, ms paint, CAD or pasta and prit stick to sketch ideas out and it could be a single lay out or have multipal minor pieces of road to have 2 or more layouts in the one track as long as it was reasonable and within the rough size guidelines.

and as a rough idea, the area i was at when i thought about this was shapped something like this :


so try keep em within that sort of shape, i'll up load a few i done later.

[DaveM-sport]

I'll see if any of my CAD programmes is still working there and I'll do a few.

If not, I'll just use good oul paint

Wouldn't mind seeing how much something like this would cost as I have alot of 3 acres around the place at home

[Alan B.]

i done a couple in CAD r14 here and i cant figure out how to change the format from dwg to, well, anything at all that i can upload.

[Prodrifter86]

I was tinking of the same ting lol may giv this ago me thinks

[Alan B.]

okay, figured out a way to do it using bmp file instead.
heres one that i based on a 30ft wide track surface and
i make it 250ftx360ft roughly in overall area with the straight being 220ft long.
i didnt remove the construction lines on this one just to show how i done it for anyone woundering.
i worked it so the straight wwould run along the top line of the outline with the first turn being in the corner


i'll print out the next ones i do and scan them back in so they wont have the black background on them.

[Aidan Hogan]

Right shitty old paint here I come
Is this a drift track or time attack track or what ??

[Alan B.]

whatever you want, but should be useable for a bit of sliding.
i've expanded on the one above by adding side roads to make more or less a circle out of the two turns at either end of the straight and the large turn so it could be used for sliding and say banger racing or whatever.

[Aidan Hogan]

Right I just made 1 and well it looks shite but said I'd throw it up anyway , not bothered putting anymore effort into it
And no it wasn't meant ta look like an animal

[Alan B.]

silhoutte of a monk in the driving position

ah, it doesnt matter, it's only for a bit of fun.
obviously the more detail the better, if anyone wants to go through the hassle of designing it in sketch up or building a model by all means work away.

i'll stick with paint and CAD.

if ya use circles to lay out your corners and then just draw straight lines between them, thats an easy way to go about it.

[DaveM-sport]

CAD isn't working so shitty old paint had to do




I know its not the shape of the field you were at but this is what I came up with.

Site is roughly 5 acres (525x400ft) The grey bit is the outside perimeter to fill up with gravel traps, spectator areas, pits or anything you want.

The area of the track itself is 3 acres and track width ranges from 20ft to 40ft. Main straight is about 300ft or 100m.
Could be used for drift, karting or anything really I suppose. Be alittle short for time-attack

The black track is the main full length track. the other colours are alternative tracks that can be opened from moving barriers or tyres around the place.
Light green bits are just plain old reliable grass