https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uz8BM0yfdw
This week, it’s time for something a little different. The last Track of the Week was a crafty replica of the Yas Marina circuit (take a look here), but the ribbon of tarmac in the spotlight this round is a point-to-point fantasy track. ‘Ribbon’ being the operative word here.
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‘Running Down A Mountain’ comes to us care of DaGiBUS. Like the last non-circuit TOTW (Week 20’s Wiener Höhenstraße), RDAM is ideally suited to agile cars. A well-stacked gearbox pays dividends too, as there will be a lot of up-and-down rowing throughout the run. In the spirit of the touge, a mildly-tuned RX-7 was my partner for the sighting lap, and what a good one it was.
RDAM wastes no time before throwing the curves at you hard and fast. With the steering wheel almost always showing some degree of lock, a pliant suspension is another necessity. The RX-7 remains unflustered – thankfully – but the ease with which it builds speed turns out to be a curse: missing crucial braking points can happen (see 7:24 in the video). Whoops.
If I had to pick a favourite part of DaGiBUS’ creation, it’d have to be the middle section. A long, long, looooong left-hander feeds into a tight hairpin in the opposite direction, which continues downhill shortly before climbing back up. After barely cresting the triple-digits (miles per hour, not kilometres), I haul it back down for another left. A small bump mid-corner is soaked up by the Mazda, and then it hunkers down for the next slope, the downforce pushing the car to the tarmac as I hold onto the last revs available in third gear.
I definitely didn’t nail the sequence in the video (that whole missed-braking-zone mishap), but running it since, it feels fantastic when all the ingredients blend together.
Download Running Down A Mountain today, and spend a long time learning each and every one of its challenging corners.
Submissions For Week 29 Still Open
Have you created the next great race track? Add your track to the GTPlanet Track Database now, and submit it to the Week 29 Submission Thread for your chance to have it featured next week. The deadline for submissions is 20:00 GMT today, so don’t wait!
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Congratulations to the winner, good looking track :-)