However, to my minds eye many of the early tracks I've seen look unnatural with these narrow roadways. Let's call it the Tilke effect.
Doing some research shows that modern track design such as at our Track of the Americas requires a main straight of 49.2' width or roughly 18" @ our 1/32 scale and a minimum track width at 12 meters or 15"!!!
No wonder modern tracks are beginning to look more like slotcar tracks. Remember when 8 lane tracks looked weird.
Other than a small bullring or an oval with a kink in it i'm not fitting much track in my confined space with those track widths. So now we still find ourselves in the dilemma of balancing scale appearance and still fitting as much track into our limited allotted space.
I'm finding that at least 9-10" is necessary to allow the illusion that the cars are moving across the track in any kind of a racing line. another compromise between what is scale and what is actual.
Would be interested in other peoples thoughts on this.
Anyways we're making progress on our family room track up here in Covington, WA and hope to post some pics soon.
