Larger Plans for South Basment

OK, I have been getting a little concerned about my 1st set of plans in the sense that the longest straight is only about 9 feet compoared to Falcon Creek Raceway which is 19 feet. I am just afraid I am going to get done, do about 50 laps and say:

1) Wow, this is beautiful and smooth
2) I love the elevation changes
3) I love the flow of the corners
4) I wish it had a longer straightaway!

So, I have came up with the idea to move the workbench out of the bottom left area of the basement and use the remaining space in a more natural oblong design, allowing at least 3 - 4 feet walkaway all around.

Design goals:

1) Longer straight - 12 - 15 ' or more
2) Enable easy marshalling all around
3) Add elevation changes
4) Add turns per real race circuits
5) 3 lanes because I don't want to cramp the space with layout thickness or too many drivers.


Here is the 1st one which I drew freehand - have not added elevation changes yet:

Longer #1




Longer #2

I tried to incorporate some flow lines (straights and corners) from real race circuits. Do you recognize a corner from Shanghai somewhere?

This plan should be about 72 feet in length.



Longer #3



Here is the space I have to work with in the south side of my basement. It is approximately 19' long and averages about 7' wide (it is 9 feet wide in the middle and 4 - 6' wide on the ends

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Here you can see how layout #2 above would fit in the space: