Project Tilke Designs

Matthew Gutteridge · Sep 14, 2009

Be quite already

Resi Respati · Oct 1, 2009

should i ride :bump:er cars over here?

Rhys Gardiner · Oct 1, 2009

I've been posting all of my designs over at the-fastlane. I was under the assumption that we'd moved there... :question:

Resi Respati · Oct 1, 2009

We'll move soon... when our guys ready to leave

Omer Said · Oct 1, 2009

You are betraying RD ??????!!!!!! :weep::weep:

Rhys Gardiner · Oct 1, 2009

Maybe we should keep posting designs here.

I have a couple that I'd like to show.

Laguna Seca - venue for the 2011 United States GP:
http://h.imagehost.org/0216/laguna3.jpg

Phillip Island (F1 configuration):
http://h.imagehost.org/0613/philly.jpg

Brian Duddy · Oct 1, 2009

I liked it here... why are you moving this?

Rhys Gardiner · Oct 2, 2009

Ask Resi... :thinking:

Resi Respati · Oct 2, 2009

I just said we have 2 branches now... at the RD forums, and the Fastlane forums. :question:

Matthew Gutteridge · Oct 2, 2009

I'm not moving. If anyone, ever, abandons race department, I'll fire you

Omer Said · Oct 2, 2009

Shh Matthew !

>>>>>> Anti Tilke Designs :wink:

Resi Respati · Oct 3, 2009

We have decided.

We keep RD as our main branch, and the Fastlane as the 2nd branch.

So we still have to post our designs here, the Fastlane forums is optional.

And remember:

Rhys Gardiner · Oct 3, 2009

Resi Respati said:
And remember:

Erm... "Make super-tight, flashy-looking chicanes in the middle of fast corners"? :th_wink:

Resi Respati · Oct 3, 2009

Rhys Gardiner said:
Erm... "Make super-tight, flashy-looking chicanes in the middle of fast corners"? :th_wink:

Exactly Rhys.

Brian Duddy · Oct 4, 2009

Wait... that actually exists? It looks like a bad Photoshop... not even Tilke could make something that hideously bad O_O

Resi Respati · Oct 4, 2009

bduddy said:
Wait... that actually exists? It looks like a bad Photoshop... not even Tilke could make something that hideously bad O_O

That's Imola's new chicane... used for motor racing

Here's the current map of Imola with that chicane

Brian Duddy · Oct 19, 2009

The second page? How did this happen?

Here's what I would do to the newest Tilke-drome, the Yas Marina Circuit.

This "original" layout is that on which we will see a parade *crosses out* race two weeks from now.

My first proposal consists of these changes:

-The first corner has been smoothed out, leading to higher speeds
-The chicane before the hairpin to the far right has been removed (note that this road already exists!)
-The corner complex at the bottom-left has been replaced with a hairpin

This one I imagine would be rather less popular, as it would go through parts of the shaded marina (obviously the most important part of this development!) The first turn I added is supposed to be less sharp then I had it, but I'm lousy with Paint. I first considered just making it a large, ~270* semi-banked turn, but that would be just a little bit ridiculous... on second thought, why not? :drool:

Thoughts?

Rhys Gardiner · Oct 20, 2009

They're all rather interesting designs. I love 'em all. :laugh2:
Here's my take:

And something I posted up on The Fastlane - the Silverstone Abbey Circuit:

Resi Respati · Oct 20, 2009

Nice designs. :thumb:

Sorry can't figure out a design, computer gets a new mouse last week and just figured out how to "correctly" assemble it last Friday (just figured out it's a USB mouse

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Brian Duddy · Oct 22, 2009

This is probably going to look pretty stupid, but here goes... I'm sure that, somewhere or another, you guys have seen concepts of an "ultimate racetrack" formed by sticking together a bunch of corners from other racetracks. Well, here's mine... stiched together horribly with Paint and Google Maps, which are in no way appropriate tools for such a job >_<

Anyway, it's a figure-8 track... I like the idea of an "ultimate" track being a figure-8, because the cars are equally turning left and right. This is also fair to drivers/cars from all countries... and besides, I don't think I could have made it fit any other way! If you really squint, you may be able to make out the corners I used... for the rest of us, I'll fill you in. I tried to avoid using corners that seemed to always make it into these things unless they really fit into the flow, and threw in others that I really like but not many others do...

T1 La Source, Spa. A corner I really like for some reason, and makes for a great first corner... just get rid of that paved runoff area :thinking:
T2: Curva Grande, Monza. A very long straight before it (without the chicane!) will make this extremely exciting, and test those low-downforce setups...
T3-5: Senna "S", Interlagos. There's always a lot of passing and excitement here, and in games and the like it always seemed very fun to drive through.
T6: Turn 8, Istanbul. Yes, I know this is in all of these tracks, but it's still great and, IMO, it fits into the "flow".
T7-9: Tunnel/Nouvelle Chicane, Monaco. I actually don't care about the tunnel-to me, it's more of a gimmick then anything. But the long sweeper, then the downhill run to the chicane, is always fun, and it slows the cars down after so many high-speed turns.
T10-11: Turns 3/3A, Sears Point. I had to include my local track in there somewhere... >_> I know it isn't often considered among the world's best, but this complex is great: 3 is a left, faster then it appears because it's in a dip, then 3A is on top of a ridge and completely blind; the cars always wants to fly away, and it's great when you get it right...
I threw in part of the front straight of Indianapolis to make the thing fit together >_>
T12: Paddock Hill, Brands Hatch. Widely considered to be great: steeply downhill right-hander, tons of action, etc.
T13-15: Spoon, Suzuka. Very tough to get right, and as we know from real life, it's great to put before a long straight.

Thoughts? Deserved criticism? I'd like to see what other people do with this...