Dogbone Super-Micro-Sprint [Postponed]

It's been a bit since the last race, and I just painted all those track pieces I got over the holidays. It seems like it took forever, but I had also started a new job, so my hours have changed. I don't have as much opportunity to race these days, but I take it where I can get it. I'll have afternoons free this week, so I spent the day setting up the track and tuning cars. 

Here's the track layout:

Got the idea to make the dogbone oval by putting together a giant multi-radius curve section. It takes up quite a bit of the living room floor.

I got inspired to do a big oval since I had painted all those 4/15 track pieces [and 3/30], so I wanted a large, fast corner. This track is extremely fast. There's very little reason to slow down in the corners, maybe just a little bit. Otherwise the car pitches out slightly and then corrects. You can go really really fast on this track. 

So it turns out that I didn't have time to do any of this race, and I needed to pick up the track and do some things. Probably better, though, since I wanted to spend time with each car I put on the track. I think once I get a good length of free time I'll set this layout back up and do some of that. 

As I was running cars, I felt like I wanted to tune each one of them specially for this layout. There would be a lot of emphasis on the tires, although other things would also be important. But no particular type of car stood out in practice laps. One 908 would be good, the other not so good, and so on. There isn't a reason to any of it either, so it's been mostly just running lucky. But I think if I sat down and tuned each car for this track, I'd get some interesting results. That big of a track allows you to really let the cars go at speed. So the question becomes, which car can make it around the curves without breaking out?

I thought about adding something into the layout to break it up a little, but the whole point is to make it nice a big and flowing. I'll do a more precise track after this one. 

It is going to be awhile before that's going to happen, though, so this layout may have to go on the back burner for awhile. 

I also need to get a wider angle lens.