- Length
- 6.01
- Theme
- Eifel
- Number Of Turns
- 7
- Length (Unit)
- mi
Welcome, time traveler! This is the old version of Peak's Drop Circuit. It used to be a high-speed circuit where the best of the best would risk their lives and cars to prove they could handle the Peak.
This is what this track used to be 60 years ago. I might make a 1910s version if you guys want it.
And for once, I'm naming the corners.
The track goes in this sequence:
The start/finish line is on the bottom left of the track map, going north.
The story of Peak's Drop.
Set in the lush scenery of the Eifel mountains, Peak's Drop has been around since the 1900s. It started life as a simple road that was infamous for an exceptionally steep section of road with a long run-off zone. People would race down this long road to see how fast they could push their bikes, autos, or whatever other wheeled transportation they had on hand. In the following decade, the road was re-developed into a crude race track featuring the unique straightway now known as Peak's Drop. After three decades of incredibly dangerous racing, the original track was scrapped following a tragic accident on the Peak's Drop straightway where a driver rolled over trying to make a turn at the bottom of the hill. A new track was paved over it, sharing the same pit lane and starting point. Peak's Drop would become the uphill section known as the Climb, and the back straight-right-straight section would become the new Peak's Drop. Cars could easily exceed 170 MPH on this back sector, but the track was dubbed the "Nightmare" because of the extremely high-speed nature of the top corners. The Climb ends with a fast right hander followed by a left-right chain. These corners went over and through crests, so the race cars involved would skitter around over them. The winner of the inaugural Peak's Drop GP in 1952 reported having nightmares for a week after having a close call on the first corner where his Jaguar C-Type went sideways over the crest of the first turn. The newspapers called it the "nightmare track" and the nickname stuck. The track finally shut down in the 1970s in favor of a new, more technical circuit being constructed a few hundred meters over. Since then, the modern circuit has taken the "Peak's Drop" name, and its most distinct feature is the straightway that cars drop onto at the top of the track. Some drivers in the 1981 GP reported that when they drove down the Peak's Drop, they saw the spirits of the brave drivers and cars of the 1950s flying down the old Peak's Drop straightway...
Ever since then, the old track has been rumored to be haunted. And now you can take your favorite car on the road and drive among the spirits who used to race there.
This is what this track used to be 60 years ago. I might make a 1910s version if you guys want it.
And for once, I'm naming the corners.
The track goes in this sequence:
The start/finish line is on the bottom left of the track map, going north.
The story of Peak's Drop.
Set in the lush scenery of the Eifel mountains, Peak's Drop has been around since the 1900s. It started life as a simple road that was infamous for an exceptionally steep section of road with a long run-off zone. People would race down this long road to see how fast they could push their bikes, autos, or whatever other wheeled transportation they had on hand. In the following decade, the road was re-developed into a crude race track featuring the unique straightway now known as Peak's Drop. After three decades of incredibly dangerous racing, the original track was scrapped following a tragic accident on the Peak's Drop straightway where a driver rolled over trying to make a turn at the bottom of the hill. A new track was paved over it, sharing the same pit lane and starting point. Peak's Drop would become the uphill section known as the Climb, and the back straight-right-straight section would become the new Peak's Drop. Cars could easily exceed 170 MPH on this back sector, but the track was dubbed the "Nightmare" because of the extremely high-speed nature of the top corners. The Climb ends with a fast right hander followed by a left-right chain. These corners went over and through crests, so the race cars involved would skitter around over them. The winner of the inaugural Peak's Drop GP in 1952 reported having nightmares for a week after having a close call on the first corner where his Jaguar C-Type went sideways over the crest of the first turn. The newspapers called it the "nightmare track" and the nickname stuck. The track finally shut down in the 1970s in favor of a new, more technical circuit being constructed a few hundred meters over. Since then, the modern circuit has taken the "Peak's Drop" name, and its most distinct feature is the straightway that cars drop onto at the top of the track. Some drivers in the 1981 GP reported that when they drove down the Peak's Drop, they saw the spirits of the brave drivers and cars of the 1950s flying down the old Peak's Drop straightway...
Ever since then, the old track has been rumored to be haunted. And now you can take your favorite car on the road and drive among the spirits who used to race there.
