gav Wrote:
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> Things like the straight at India annoy me. It may
> not or may not be natural, but there is
> elevation... and it gets used on a straight. Fair
> enough if there's a climb (limited traction) or a
> drop (producing oversteer) just after a corner,
> but it's in the middle of a bloody straight. What
> the heck is the point of that?
>
> That and surely he isn't required to have a track
> of 20+ metres wide. Spa must be one of the
> narrowest track widths around (the
> Tilke-if-not-designed-then-inspired start and
> finish straight excepted), and no one complains
> that you can't overtake there or that it doesn't
> produce interesting races - it invariably does,
> regardless of the weather.
>
> Sorry, but he's ruining Formula 1 one year at a
> time. The best new track in the past decade in F1
> is the only one not designed by Hermann Tilke.
> That can't be a coincidence.
I agree. At least in India there are reasonable elevation changes approaching corners as well, such as the uphill rise to T3, the slight incline to T10 and T15 making practically all of them blind. As yes, it is always the right sequence of turns that counts, judging by the work Populous did on Silverstone. The new Spa (the 1979 layout) was also made with this in mind, I'm sure.
EC83 Wrote:
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> The best Tilke-influenced track so far, IMO, is
> the A1-Ring. That had some epic corners, and sure
> enough, it produced some great races. I'm really
> hoping Red Bull twist Bernie's arm and get it put
> back on the calendar.
Yes, it is quite good. I really like the uphill T1 and the reasonably quick corners. I think the A1-Ring, or now Red Bull Ring, is underestimated because being as good as it is, it is still only a shadow of the old Österreichring, and practically there is no chance that would change.
pippo46 Wrote:
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> and STILL no real "GP4-Version" available
> 4download? though I seen a very pre-mature one on
> another forum....
>
> & decent links?
> thanks
I assume you meant the COTA. No, no real version yet. There is one beta released by KTC as I recall, but the layout of that one is slightly inaccurate - not because of KTC, he did a fine job, but because there are slight, but important differences between the original plans, such as that one showed in this topic, and the actual layout that was built.