Meadowdale Raceway 1963 Alpha v0.3

Meadowdale Raceway (later known as Meadowdale International Raceway) was a death trap road course built on some hills in Carpentersville, Illinois, in the suburbs of Chicago, in 1958. The track features numerous blind drops and crests plenty of elevation change, a terrifying and unsafe challenging replica of Monza's famous banking for its final corner, and a terminal lack of runoff "flowing" layout. The track quickly gained a reputation for being lethal quite tricky to drive. The track was thankfully unfortunately closed down in 1968 due to nobody wanting to drive it because it's a death trap bad management.



Unlike other models of this track on the web, this one is both dimensionally accurate and available for download. I used an aerial image from 1962 (available on USGS EarthExplorer) as reference for the track's features. I could claim that this was built with aerial LiDAR (because it was, using the 2017 scan available on LidarExplorer), but since there's barely any of the original track surface left today, I had to do a lot of interpolation and smoothing over dirt piles and changed grading. I did try to add back in some "flavor" via displacement mapping, but it might not feel correct quite yet-- feedback requested and greatly appreciated.



And yes, I'll add some more scenery items and stuff like that later on.


This model is licensed for individual and non-commercial use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. The text of the license is included in the download. It is also available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Among other things, this means that conversion of this track to other sims is not allowed without my permission. If you would like to convert this track (for rF2, AMS1, etc.), please contact me. This also means that the use of this model in any form by any commercial entity for advertising, in events, for testing, or any other purpose is prohibited without explicit written permission from myself. If you would like to obtain permission, please contact me here on Overtake.gg or through the email address provided in the readme in the download.