New track Ideas required

[dicky14]

Right, we are now well into the new year and numbers appear to be picking up.
Maybe its time for me too get off my lazy arse and start building some tracks. LOL.
What kind of things do we want guys?:woot:
All suggestions too:-

I'm building the track,
22 your opinions count for nowt street,
Let us raceville,
Get it builtfordshire.

:thumbsup:

[john333]

Here's one idea....never ever ever have that bloody awful right angled jump onto the table top again, I seriously considered piling all my gear up and setting fire to it after getting that damn thing wrong so many times in one night. :cry: lol

[dicky14]

Here's one idea....never ever ever have that bloody awful right angled jump onto the table top again, I seriously considered piling all my gear up and setting fire to it after getting that damn thing wrong so many times in one night. :cry: lol

:woot:Ha Ha sorry to laugh John, the top needs widening in my opinion, these sorts of things are the kind of things that need to be addressed:thumbsup:

[cheesyd]

I say bring back the up the wall 90' turn, that was a good obstacle. The table top meshing is coming off too. I quite like having a bit of floor showing too rather than all carpet and maybe some jumps on the straight which are placed close enough to jump both if you have the balls.

[cheesyd]

At York they have gym mats which they make into jumps and at batley they have gym mats again but do a banked corner out of them, thats cool!

[john333]

we have to keep the carpet down all over the floor as the room is used as an archery club during the week, and they say it will become a trip hazard if there are bits missing etc.

Also jumps on the straight have been tried, but we sort of moved away from them because it's nice to get a little bit of speed up once a lap lol

[john333]

would be good to get some gym mats though :thumbsup:

[dicky14]

im working on our care takers for some mats.:thumbsup:

[cheesyd]

Yeah i know what you mean about speed but jumps on straight dont have to stop the speed, like i said have them a certain distance apart so that you can either go for it flat out and do a big jump or choose to take steady eddie! Just make sure the first jump isnt too steep, is straight, and not broken :)

Table top is good but its not a big jump is it, 90% of the time it ends with a corner straight after so you just use enough speed to land on the down slope on other side. Events like worksop seems to have a big jump which can be taken steady or go for it.

The diagonal straight like other week was good cuz it didnt look straight so lots of ppl used steering when no need.

York altho use them foot thick crash mats too which are good for landing on.

[cheesyd]

iv also seen places use that rubber floor matting that is heavy and has a tapered edging so no taping down is required.

My lodger works for a conveyor place, will see if he can get hold of conveyor roll ends or summat to protect jump entries, or be used for obstacles or corners rather than lino.

[cheesyd]

these are good too:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/271233750110?hlpht=true&ops=true&viphx=1&lpid=95&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=95&ff19=0

[cheesyd]

also found some free basic track design software:

http://www.zanthrax.nl/files/trackmaker.zip

[deano43]

I am in favour of keeping the straight open I like a good blast down it and it one point I can get close or overtake the tabletop was a pain but I wasn't as vexed about it as John lol the gym mats seem a good idea also the the centre piece of the big jump needs addressing maybe covering with hardboard instead of the mesh so it ain't too heavy to lift,the thing is in IMHO I like a fast flowing track with some obstacles like jumps etc and not to many obstacles and no where to open the car up as it is racing after all but it also off road so a balance is needed between the two. I've got to say I think the tracks we have raced on in the last 6 months as least I've enjoyed them all so it's just what we put In between like jumps gym mats etc is what we really need people's opinion on .

[dicky14]

cant use hard board on the big jump, blind spot springs too mind, you need too see your car under it:p

[dicky14]

I am in favour of keeping the straight open I like a good blast down it and it one point I can get close or overtake the tabletop was a pain but I wasn't as vexed about it as John lol the gym mats seem a good idea also the the centre piece of the big jump needs addressing maybe covering with hardboard instead of the mesh so it ain't too heavy to lift,the thing is in IMHO I like a fast flowing track with some obstacles like jumps etc and not to many obstacles and no where to open the car up as it is racing after all but it also off road so a balance is needed between the two. I've got to say I think the tracks we have raced on in the last 6 months as least I've enjoyed them all so it's just what we put In between like jumps gym mats etc is what we really need people's opinion on .
Technical flowing tracks like bridgford last week is what we need, it keeps you on your toes and cuts down on fast car accidents

[cheesyd]

I agree with technical flowing tracks however i feel that sometimes West Bridgford, and to a certain extent Broxtowe, the grip is high with carpet and too flowing resulting in flat out racing even round some of the corners. Its then all down to the power you have and less about the ability of the driver. I like Mansfield cuz its competitive (usually friendly too lol) with being narrow with obstacles and lots of corners etc and I would rather race there than bridgford any day. If the track is bigger then changes of surface, mats, jumps, and changes of direction are all good.

[dicky14]

I agree with technical flowing tracks however i feel that sometimes West Bridgford, and to a certain extent Broxtowe, the grip is high with carpet and too flowing resulting in flat out racing even round some of the corners. Its then all down to the power you have and less about the ability of the driver. I like Mansfield cuz its competitive (usually friendly too lol) with being narrow with obstacles and lots of corners etc and I would rather race there than bridgford any day. If the track is bigger then changes of surface, mats, jumps, and changes of direction are all good.
Totally agreen Dan, but bridgefords track for their winter championship was awesome, loads of corners etc, it wasnt much about power but driver ability:lol:

[cheesyd]

Thats cool then. The potential at Bridgford is great because of the size. Worksop is always a quality track too and I suppose that is the difference between championships and club nights.

[Jason A]

I really enjoyed the track this week and thought it was one best we have had for long time.
Mansfield has always been know for it's more technical tracks and I think that we need to just build on that.
The things that we have done better recently is not putting anything on the straight and trying to position the jumps better so you can see them from the rostrum position.
Everyone is really pulling together and that's great for the club as a whole so
Keep up the good work chaps.

Looking forwards to next weeks track.

[deano43]

I agree to a point. like I said it has to be a mixture of both. we need some fast points or it ain't racing but a good mixture of jumps and other obstacles plus chicanes etc. I agree with jay which Is a first. this weeks track was good it had pritty much everything but the tabletop was a pain it was too short had it been twice the width but the same length ( no puns plz stainy lol) then it would have been awesome and I wouldn't have mined the half pipe in there either

[Dave31]

Very rare that we have a track at Mansfield that I do not get on with. I like tracks to have a good flow that reward drivers who can get a rhythm with a nice mix of obstacles and open sections. You need sections to perform overtakes, too many obstacles make that difficult. Jumps on the straight would not be my preference but you have to give these things a go and I agree placed at the right distance make them a good challenge and rewarding if you get it right. I like the mats idea, would add a completely different obstacle to the options we have.

[dicky14]

I bet thats what all the girls say deano:woot:. The table top needs to be the one we have downstairs if its still ok. Some of the best tracks weve had can be seen on youtube under urban rc extreme, maybe we can take the best from them all and see what we can come up with. No jumps on the straight gets my vote:thumbsup:

[deano43]

I bet thats what all the girls say deano:woot:. The table top needs to be the one we have downstairs if its still ok. Some of the best tracks weve had can be seen on youtube under urban rc extreme, maybe we can take the best from them all and see what we can come up with. No jumps on the straight gets my vote:thumbsup:

No rich it's want to be the opposite so that's 2+ another 2 = yes that's right 7 good at maths I am lol

[cheesyd]

Fair enough regarding the jumps on the straight :-) Still think we should test some sort of big jump somewhere tho, all the best tracks seem to have one.

Iv asked my lodger about getting hold of conveyor belts too, ordered a few 1200x500x6mm belts for us to test, he can get 40mm thick too which will be mega heavy but cud be used like/instead of mats. See what he brings home.

[deano43]

The problem is with really big jumps is making it strong but light enough to be portable to be put into place even though it can be in sections and it doesn't dominate the track, we do have a dairy amount of space but not like west bridgeford or Worksop the latter have a great double jump they use in front of the rostrum. The big jump we have is ok just needs the mesh sorting out so there are no holes as it's damaging cars but other than that we could introduce the half pipe again and the fore mentioned gym mats