G'day Everyone

I am looking at doing a track that would be familiar to large number of people around the world who have played Gran Turismo on the Playstation.

My Scorpius track will be using Carrera digital track pieces and will be based on Tsukuba Circuit in Japan. Home of the Time Attack and Best Motoring video Magazine Tests(If your a japanese car nut like me you will know what I'm talking about...lol). As I think you can see it has a little bit of everything.

The pit lane will come later and will most likely be routed MDF so that I can fit the pit boxes closer together to fit more in. More lane changes maybe added later if I feel the track needs them. Track lenght is over 26 metres.

Mat

 

Mine will also be based on a Japanese track, the Suzuka Circuit. It'll be about 6.5m X 2.1m with 18m lane lengths. Just finishing off the room where it'll be built. Hope to build it this fall. I may leave off the pits initially to try to save a bit of cash. Can always add them later though.

Todd

 

Great to see other plans, wow!
Here's mine - to be built next Xmas holidays for our traditional annual newyear's day races. This time it will be scorpius-ish
I might add a railroad layout around the track, to enhance the feeling of an urban wasteland / industrial area / deserted ringroad spaghetti / streetrace track... we'll see...

Merc

 

Hi
Wow guys very cool. It will interesting indeed to see this thread over time, pics, videos etc.

For those who dont know Nullas track will be a commercial track in Sydney, Australia, one of 6 commercial centres so far here in Oz.

Rick

 

Hi,

would like to add my Ninco track as well.

This track is already operational as a N'digital track and makes a lot of fun, but I'm red hot on Scorpius, as the technical sections are quite challenging with the limited control N'digital gives.
BTW: We raced the track without the R1-sections for a while, but we felt it was quite boring after some racing, so I went for the R1-Sections and I have to say that they are cool to drive.

I will have to change the pitlane a bit, as the entrance won't work with the additional 10 cm Scorpius requires. All other things should do fine.

Here you are.

Grid line are 50 cm wide (the plan is about 4,00 x 3,00 m small)
Colors are as follows:
light brown: borders
R1: red
R2: blue
R3: green
R4: black

Best regards,
Diegu

 

My contribution to this thread

My 24 meter routed track design. As you can see a lot of bestlane LC and LB needed for this track.

Marc

 

Cool

Nice track, and what i like the most: another future Scorpius track so very near my home town
Love to race it one day!

Greetings, Merc

 

WoW Nice tracks everyone. Realy nice to see that you all post here

 

Just wondering what you're home town is tough? And you're more than welcome to race it one day!

Marc

 

40 km. north of you, the Royal Netherlands Navy town ;-)

 

So you're a "Jutter" then ;-). I've lived for 22 years in Breezand, a couple of km's from the naval city. It's a smal world after all

 

This is my track Greenslopes Raceway.
I have posted this in tracks and scenery and will add progression posts as it goes along.

 

Nice flowing track
But beware of racers using the pitlane to take a shortcut ;-)

Merc

 

Very nice track though i think one more LC is needed in the last corner "Inner to outer" or you risc missing the pit with a full lap..

 

QUOTE But beware of racers using the pitlane to take a shortcut ;-)
Didn't think of that one

Maybe Scorpius will be smart enough in the future to have speed limited pit lanes

 

Thats something on the "to do" list, all the hardware is in place, just some programming.
As for the track if you had a LC on that corner, its exit point would be past the pit entry the way I imagine it, you could of course tweak the pit lane to match though. As Camber says, its a semi best line.

Rick

 

well kind of easy to do.. cut the track to the pitlane and put some diods between the cut tracks to limit the voltage...

 

Scorpius needs 8.5V min. to allow it to operate. At 8.5V the car is still way too fast. Throttle manipulation is the way to go.
However I might be able to program the car chip to go to a certain speed if it hits a certain ID LB. Otherwise I need to go via PC or even PC and throttle.

Rick

 

Hi,
this is my current N'Digital 4-lane track that I would like to change to a Scorpius setup.

View attachment NDigital_4_spor_2.bmp

 

Thats a big 4 laner you have. Look forward to seeing it up and running. Keep us posted.
- Cam

 

QUOTE (jsmadsen @ 25 Aug 2009, 22:55) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi,
this is my current N'Digital 4-lane track that I would like to change to a Scorpius setup.

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Don't know how the N-Digital system works when you need to switch lanes, but can you really go from lane 2 > 3 > 4 and into the pitlane on that short distance (under the bridge)? Shouldn't there be longer between the LCs?

 

Hi,
it works just fine - the switch lanes respond very fast.

Best regards
Jesper

 

How many lane brains will you need for this circuit
Thanks

 

The general rule is one LB per LC + 1 LB for lapcounting.
As the pits count as one LC you dont need an additional LB. However we still need to write the software that tells PC Lapcounter off a pit lane or pitbay entry. PC Lapcounter does not have use for a pit lane exit signal (yet), nor individual pit bay. And then there would have to be a box to tick if you have multiple pit bays on top of the pit lane, which is a slightly different scenario.
It will be all programmable from the LB set up page, so you can assign any LB to any ID and any function, but lapcounting will always be 0.
With lap counting through pits LB comes with 4 LEDs on fly leads, so thats enough for 2 lanes + one for pit lane + one for pit bay. Additional LEDs can be wired (with correct polarity) in series of any of the 4 existing LED flyleads.

Rick.

 

This is my digital road course. It's currently D132, and is laid out on top of my 4-lane routed track (so I at least get to enjoy the scenery). I plan on re-routing eventually for a 3-lane digital/analog (with some resloting lanes here and there). In plastic, it's about 90', 20' x 12'. With digital I'm racing counter-clockwise.

The top left curve and bottom right curve are about 10" above level. Infield curves are "level", etc.

Bluff Creek Race Park:

Currently the pits are actually on the top straight, and the bottom straight. I needed to have them on opposite sides for D132 as cars would too often slow before making it to the pits and block racing traffic. I plan to route a set of 4-6 pits around the inside of the bottom left curves.

I figure I'll need 8 LB's: 1 pitlane LB ,1 for 2 pit bays, 5 for 5 LC's, and a S/F