Track Stats?

"Patrick Nichols" (pnichols) 06/11/2015 at 16:55 • Filed to: None

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So I’m working on a couple longer posts about cornering/tracks but I don’t have some of the numbers I’m looking for. Does anyone know where I can find track measurements? I’m looking specifically at:

straight lengths

track width

and either degree and radius or degree and length (as some simple math can figure out either one) of corners

As always any help is appreciated

tromoly > Patrick Nichols 06/11/2015 at 17:07

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Good luck on most of that. With that said, I’ve found images of a couple tracks that had all that data, Google is your friend on this stuff.

It's a "Porch-uh" > Patrick Nichols 06/11/2015 at 18:54

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Depending on the track, you might have distance from corner to corner, but I would be very surprised if somebody much more than that.

Race tracks are not the same width the whole way around (main straight is usually the widest area) so I don’t think anybody would have those stats either.

Corners are rarely a consistent radius. Sometimes by design, sometimes due to construction.

Best bet would be to go on Google Maps (classic, because it has more tools for this) and start measuring. Or take a screen shot, trace in Adobe Illustrator (or similar program) to get clean lines, and measure.

Patrick Nichols > It's a "Porch-uh" 06/11/2015 at 20:19

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yeah I’m more looking for average width and the average radius for a corner so I might try something like that

the idea is to adapt power finesse ratio from baseball pitching to race tracks and so drag strips no matter their length would be equal to one and everything else between that and 0. because ovals have such large radius they would be closer to 1 than they would to 0 and more twisty tracks would be closer to 0 than they are to 1

It's a "Porch-uh" > Patrick Nichols 06/11/2015 at 22:39

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Sorry, I’m not getting it. What’s the goal?

Patrick Nichols > It's a "Porch-uh" 06/11/2015 at 22:50

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So to come up with a metric that shows which tracks might favor more powerful cars and which might favor more nimble cars. In theory, at tracks closer to a 1 rating, a hellcat would do well and closer to a 0 a miata would do well

It's a "Porch-uh" > Patrick Nichols 06/11/2015 at 23:05

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Ah.

That makes sense. I would factor in the number of corners as well.