Random thought - is there any logic behind numbering turns (a) and (b) instead of giving them new
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Random thought - is there any logic behind numbering turns (a) and (b) instead of giving them new
numbers? Lots of tracks have turn Xa and Xb, but they don't always seem like they're similar enough to be related. For example, I agree with numbering a long double apex turn where you don't have to change your steering input much as Xa and Xb. But I'm seeing chicanes, switchbacks, etc., being labeled Xa and Xb. Now, they may be close together and considered a single "section," but if it turns in the completely opposite direction, it's hard to imagine it as a related turn in my mind. Anyway, is there any logic to this, or is it just some evil track planner thing?
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When turns are as extremely close as the turns of the Corkscrew, or turn 3 at Sears, or the Bus Stop
at Watkins you tackle them as more or less a singular feature on the track, so having a single number makes sense to me. Sometimes every turn in a chicane is numbered though, like at Portland, which I find adds confusion.
In another instance though, I feel like at VIR they have a 12 and 12a because they didn't want a turn 13 at the track, though that might not be their reasoning at all.
In another instance though, I feel like at VIR they have a 12 and 12a because they didn't want a turn 13 at the track, though that might not be their reasoning at all.
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It's evil It's so evil it could be considered eeeeeeeevvvvvvveeeeeeeeeiiiiillll ...
like the frew-its of the deh-veell...eevviilll..
I believe it has something more to do with the "distance" between corners, if there is a logical straight or some differentiating feature between the corners.
Kind of fits along with what D all over was saying. Though I'm not sure about spooky wooky nature of the VIR thing.
I'm assuming like 3a and b at Pacific, there really isn't anything substantial between them though I don't get how they come across 4, 5a and b then...*shrugs*
But then again I can't get how they call 1 a corner there either...so *shrugs*
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I believe it has something more to do with the "distance" between corners, if there is a logical straight or some differentiating feature between the corners.
Kind of fits along with what D all over was saying. Though I'm not sure about spooky wooky nature of the VIR thing.
I'm assuming like 3a and b at Pacific, there really isn't anything substantial between them though I don't get how they come across 4, 5a and b then...*shrugs*
But then again I can't get how they call 1 a corner there either...so *shrugs*
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when a track has multiple configurations, to keep the rest of the track consistent
<center><img src="http://www.ncr-pca.org/drivers-ed/nhis-map.gif"></center><p>such as a chicane at the interior of a banked oval turn. That way, the turn numbers for the rest of the track stay consistent.
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