Your Favourite Track (Real & unreal)

[Tallgeese]

All-time (unreal)

Complex String from GT3/GT4

http://www.ps2fantasy.com/games/gran_turismo_3/preview/2.jpg


Real Life

Shanghai International Circuit
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Circuit_Shanghai.png

Istanbul Park

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Istanbul_park.svg/800px-Istanbul_park.svg.png








Imola


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Imola.svg/800px-Imola.svg.png

[Tallgeese]

I have to say that 'Complex String' is by far my favourite track & I wish it was a real one :( it's got virtually everything you could ask for & it's long & exciting much like old F1 tracks before the regulations limited track-size.

[ioan]

What the hack is that complex string thingy?
It certainly is not practical. What is the use to have the same combination of turns 5 times one after the other?
I understand that diversity is needed but it should also contain some common sense.

[ioan]

As for my favorite tracks, they are all real (I really can't remember any of those NFS tracks I still used to play every now and then 5+ years ago).

So:
1. Spa
2. Old Hockenheim
3. Suzuka
4. Monaco

[Sleeper]

Spa, Donington, Nordschleif, Suzuka, Road America, Mid Ohio, Imola, Bathurst and Laguna Seca.

From the computer game world, GT's Grand Valley, Grindalwald (on GT2), Special Stage Rout 11, El Capitan and Trial Mountain are the best I've come across.

Ioan, the point of the Complex string was to be a test track, very technical but rather dull to drive, and you could only race on their in 2 player mode.

[Tazio]

Nordschleife or as JYS referred to it "The green Hell"
Then Spa

San Luis....

Herman Tilke, eat your fecking heart out!

Some more......

[ArrowsFA1]

San Luis....

Herman Tilke, eat your fecking heart out!
Can't see your pic for some reason but I'm thinking you mean this one:


Could we please have a GP here:

http://www.autosport.com/gallery/picture_free.php/dir/gt2008arg1/image/106-2
Potrero de los Funes in San Luis, Argentina - more photos (http://www.autosport.com/gallery/index.php/id/1558)

:s mokin:

Can't see your pic for some reason but I'm thinking you mean this one:

That's the one....and that's the photo I attached!

I fear there has been a breach of security.......Might have known a Mclarenista would have gotten his hands on a copy!!!!!!!

[harvick#1]

Real:
Circuit La Sarthe :s mokin:

fake:
Grand Valley Speedway from the Gran Turismo Series

[woody2goody]

Real-life: possibly Montreal, the new Nurburgring or the Hungaroring.

Fake: Trial Mountain or the Seattle Circuit from GT.

[speeddurango]

Alpes in NFS5

Real life:
New Hockhenheim(sorry to nostalgists)

[Tallgeese]

What the hack is that complex string thingy?
It certainly is not practical. What is the use to have the same combination of turns 5 times one after the other?
I understand that diversity is needed but it should also contain some common sense.

Hey, it's so cool it uses a pattern but gets harder & harder as you go through!

It's more of a test-track but as a race-track it would certainly be worth a shot. At nearly 7.5km it's 41 laps long but at 210 minutes estimating time to finish it's well above the 120 minute maximum (each lap takes about three & half minutes) although to be fair the Polyphony 001 appears to be faster than the cars on F1'06 (hitting 350km was not particularly difficult on the straight) suggesting that F1 cars have slowed down :( even when setting up the Renault R26, Ferrari 248 or McLaren-Mercedes MP4-20 you never truly could get beyond 340km/h!

Still, I'd love to race on Complex String someday!

[ioan]

Hey, it's so cool it uses a pattern but gets harder & harder as you go through!

It's more of a test-track but as a race-track it would certainly be worth a shot. At nearly 7.5km it's 41 laps long but at 210 minutes estimating time to finish it's well above the 120 minute maximum (each lap takes about three & half minutes) although to be fair the Polyphony 001 appears to be faster than the cars on F1'06 (hitting 350km was not particularly difficult on the straight) suggesting that F1 cars have slowed down :( even when setting up the Renault R26, Ferrari 248 or McLaren-Mercedes MP4-20 you never truly could get beyond 340km/h!

Still, I'd love to race on Complex String someday!

Interesting.
When I first looked at the image I thought it looks like a dedicated test track for an automotive or tire manufacturer.

[rob01]

Real:
Spa, Bathurst, old Hockhenheim, Nordschleife

Fake:
got to be Trial Mountian all the way!

[Tallgeese]

Interesting.
When I first looked at the image I thought it looks like a dedicated test track for an automotive or tire manufacturer.

If it was my track I'd include an oval around it. Actually it isn't real :( that's what makes me sad since I'd practically live there & host 18 races a year. It's soooooooo good!

[ShiftingGears]

Fake :

The Summit
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Ptm0YLj30&feature=related

Trial Mountain
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=W4D4dpcmMQY

Ultimate Destruction Speedway :D
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dcbSTswdgRQ

Grindelwald
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhArRkitug

[52Paddy]

In no order

Real tracks:

1) Bathurst
2) Donington Park GP
3) Oulton Park Island
4) Watkins Glen
5) Adelaide

Fake tracks:

1) Apricot Hill
2) Loch Ranoch (Toca 2)
3) Deep Forest
4) Chalk Canyon (Destruction Derby 2)
5) SCA Speedway (DD2)

[markabilly]

Seca (old track)
the ring (old and whole track)
Spa
monaco (back in the sixties and seventies when the cars were bettwer suited)

[IceWizard]

Favorite Tracks:

1) Nurburgring Nordschleife
2) Spa pre 1970, though the current track isn't bad!
3) Suzuka
4) Laguna Seca
5) Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez pre baseball stadium
6) Road America
7) Brands Hatch, though I could be biased as its just down the road from me

Fantasy Tracks:

Only Loch Lanoch (sp?) on Toca springs to mind - I tend to only play 'real' tracks.

[HenryM]

http://autoanything.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/nurburgring2.jpg

[Storm]

As for my favorite tracks, they are all real (I really can't remember any of those NFS tracks I still used to play every now and then 5+ years ago).

So:
1. Spa
2. Old Hockenheim
3. Suzuka
4. Monaco

:up: My favourite tracks would also be these...and probably the same order too!
Perhaps I will add Montreal and Silverstone to it.

[Tallgeese]

Who could resist Trial Mountain or Grand Vally Speedway. The only thing is you get two choices of F1-type cars!