It's a real torture to race in tracks like St. Croix type A

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How PD lost its remarkable ability to create tracks inspired by the best fantasy circuits of the past is a real mystery…
The aspiring track design team at PD — I call them the “Drunk Hermann Tilke” crew — gave us such controversial circuits as "St. Croissant".
"St. Croissant" A is a real ordeal, full of straights and 90-degree (or sharper) corners that test your nervous system…
Even I, who wasn’t a great track designer back in GT6, would have created much better circuits…
Let alone the many talented GT7 users out there...
A advanced track tool would be a solution in our problems...
 
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You can't be greek and confuse a crescent with a cross. Seriously... > Sainte-Croix <

Yet I agree, this track is unimpressive and quite boring. I fail to learn it properly, it is too repetitive as well as long. It's a shame because this place from the real world they chose to make a racetrack on is very beautiful.
If they can't change the layout, they could at least make an effort to improve signage around the circuit.
 
They're just really hard to learn.

There are so many layouts, plus the reverse versions, and (as with Lago Maggiorre) you have sections which can be mixed and matched, makes for a bit of an ordeal!

I think they missed a trick in not making the corners more memorable, because many sections look exactly the same to me. It doesn't happen quite as badly at Lago M.

I think with some small adjustments, there could be a good racetrack there.
 
They're just really hard to learn.

There are so many layouts, plus the reverse versions, and (as with Lago Maggiorre) you have sections which can be mixed and matched, makes for a bit of an ordeal!

I think they missed a trick in not making the corners more memorable, because many sections look exactly the same to me. It doesn't happen quite as badly at Lago M.

I think with some small adjustments, there could be a good racetrack there.
Indeed. As I said, a better signage could do the trick, as could adding an old building here, a cliff or a bank there, or a notable tree somewhere else. There are plenty of ways to make this track more memorable.
 
Bits of it remind me of Le Mans and La Sarthe (place, not just the circuit) but then that might just be France. I tend to stick to either Normandy/Mediterranean/Paris when in France so this might just look like all of central France
 
I've always said it's modern Cape Ring.

Very wide, very similar looking around the track except for the one big monument (bridge here, spiral for Cape Ring), never sticks in your head what corner is next.
 
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You can't be greek and confuse a crescent with a cross. Seriously... > Sainte-Croix <
It's my satirical version of the name of track. Many gamers here they use this expresion. Yes, of course I know the meaning of the cross.
 
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They could easily make new configurations by just moving barriers. I’d love to see one where the straight at the top of track C feeds into the long arc on track A.
 
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