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[PsuPepperoni]

Well i'll be damned! Since i first got to know the corner, i always thought it had it's name because of a real carousel:

I'd like to imagine that still had a part in it. Like, whoever named it was making a play on words between the guys name and the spinny ride.

 

[mister dog]

I'd like to imagine that still had a part in it. Like, whoever named it was making a play on words between the guys name and the spinny ride.

Indeed especially seeing that a Carousel is literally a "Karusell" in German:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karussell

I'd be more likely that this is the main influence, more than the Italian dude.

 

[Vegard]

I'd be more likely that this is the main influence, more than the Italian dude.

Caracciola - after the driver + karussell - because it's a carousel.

Caracciola karussell.

 

[mister dog]

Caracciola - after the driver + karussell - because it's a carousel.

Caracciola karussell.

So we concur with mister dog that a merry go round was the first and foremost influence until Caracciola came along, and people saw the coincidence with his name?

 

[Vegard]

So we concur with mister dog that a merry go round was the first and foremost influence until Caracciola came along, and people saw the coincidence with his name?

It was probably just called Karussell before he came along and made it "his" corner.
Perhaps like the Schumacher-S on Nurburgring?

 

[acjy1985]

It feels different from GT5, but in my opinion not harder or easier. I do wish they modeled it a bit better, irl there's a pretty huge curb on the inside, in GT it's pretty much even with the road and grass...

I have run(on foot) round the Nurburgring and can confirm there is definitely a raised curb on the inside of the corner. Then some of that lattice type concrete through which grass can grow.

 

[sumbrownkid]

This corner is actually the easiest for me to get right. But I can't even brake straight and true in an R8.

Strange.