View Full Version : Help with designing a road course


txronharris
08-14-2005, 12:18 AM
Ok guys, I'm not going soft, but I watched the Bush race today (and I'll watch the cup race tomorrow) from "the Glen" and I'm thinking about a road course in the garage since the local races have a nice tri oval and will soon have a replica of Pocono to satisfy my super speedway urges. Do any of you guys that have more experience than me in designing tracks, think a reasonable HO 4 lane model of the Infineon track could be built in a 5x9? If not. what if I expanded it to a 5x12? Here's a link to the shape of the speedway:

http://www.nascar.com/races/tracks/spr/index.html

I know it's not the most exciting track (alot of the ones I've seen here and other places are better), but it might be cool to model a real track. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks in advance for any help as well! :thumbsup:

1976Cordoba
08-14-2005, 12:52 AM
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/511/medium/IndyF1.jpg

Here's one I designed with Tomy track to fit on a 5 x 12 table. It's the Indy F1 road course. The oval can be built with 15 & 18" turns and by swapping out some pieces and redirecting into the infield, you can run on this circuit.

'Doba

AfxToo
08-16-2005, 07:32 PM
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AfxToo
08-16-2005, 07:51 PM
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AfxToo
08-16-2005, 08:15 PM
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txronharris
08-17-2005, 06:56 PM
thanks to both of you for the help! I'll continue to fiddle with things as well and I'm sure We'll come up with something.