Pencil and Paper GT (Old School)

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For those times when the PS3 is not available there is a way to race a virtual car around a track. Vector racetrack, using a drawn track on a grid of paper. The rules and details are elsewhere on Google ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game) ) but basically a dot represents your car and the acceleration and turning rule is +1 or -1 in any direction.

For a real track the scales get pretty large, here is a segment of Apricot Hill showing two possible tracks or lines around T1 and T2.

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In this example each square is 2.5 m. and each "turn" is about 0.5 sec. It takes about 180 turns to lap the circuit, or about 1:30. A full track on one sheet at this scale is about the size of a D-size engineering drawing. A random track on a letter or A4 grid paper is just fine also.

Here is Apricot Hill in total:
 

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For those times when the PS3 is not available there is a way to race a virtual car around a track. Vector racetrack, using a drawn track on a grid of paper. The rules and details are elsewhere on Google ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game) ) but basically a dot represents your car and the acceleration and turning rule is +1 or -1 in any direction.

For a real track the scales get pretty large, here is a segment of Apricot Hill showing two possible tracks or lines around T1 and T2.

apricothill2.jpg

In this example each square is 2.5 m. and each "turn" is about 0.5 sec. It takes about 180 turns to lap the circuit, or about 1:30. A full track on one sheet at this scale is about the size of a D-size engineering drawing. A random track on a letter or A4 grid paper is just fine also.

Here is Apricot Hill in total:
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Ha, I remember playing this back in the day in high school during study hall. 👍 Ah the memories. :)
 
Ah...The ol' times playing vector-racing. That was the way I learned the optimal race line.
 
HuskyGT
I would just grab some hotwheels and race them around the track making car noises with my mouth. That would be fun! :D
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I still have my racetrack rug. Time to break out all the HotWheels!
 
You would have to be reeeeeally bored to do this.
 
This...

...This could get me so popular in my Calculus class...
 
Ahhh yes we had paper like this when I was in school... except we used it to design ICs...

If you don't know what an IC is forget it. I don't have time.
 
To be honest that sort of detail would he great and look just like Bob's Track Builder on PC.
 
Surprized no one posted this yet:

http://harmmade.com/vectorracer/

It includes Monaco, Zandvoort, and Bahrain.

I'm sure there's some others in the custom player tracks (and maybe some of us could submit tracks from GT).
 
dylansan
Surprized no one posted this yet:

http://harmmade.com/vectorracer/

It includes Monaco, Zandvoort, and Bahrain.

I'm sure there's some others in the custom player tracks (and maybe some of us could submit tracks from GT).
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That's a little cartoony and not to scale but certainly automates the process.
 
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