We all have our preferences, since I'm not much of a driver or are my racer friends, I always like a track with some curves, but not something that looks like spaghetti thrown on the wall. I think a lot of guys make a mistake (my opinion) by trying to get too many feet of track in the area that have to work with. would probably be better (my opinion) to get a track that flows better and is maybe a bit easier to drive.
Here is the track I have been working on. It is 4 inch lane centers for 1/24. I tried to work out max speed by the long straight into a nice bank. Then uphill to the overpass. Cars can't take this at full speed and you go downhill to the flat curve at the other end. So while you have a nice speed section, you also better back out and drive the uphill, downhill and flat curve at the other end. Being a figure 8, no driver has a lane advantage by much. I also built it so that the downhill to the flat curve can be changed to an "L" extension if we want a longer, more varied track. I have room for about a 10 foot extension out that side. I'm hoping it is a fun track for our group and that is not too hard to drive. I just never think it is much fun when you have cars coming off every lap!
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