Nevadaring a US replica in the works?

[Jayfish]

Plans for a full scale Nurburgring replica in the desert outside Las Vegas or so it seems
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/03/12/exact-nurburgri...

[williamp]

A good idea: the same test of machine, with year round, consistent weather. But as a drivers circuit, can you imagine it:

170-odd turns. With evocatinve names such as "turn 11"; "turn 105" "straightaway 5". I do hope they manage to get them in the right order...

[Papa Hotel]

Shape is one thing, recreating the rise and fall of the road is quite another. Then there's the size, this isn't a small track.

Cost and logistics considered, I'm going to stick my neck on the line and call bullst on this.

[Bezerk]

Reminded me of this:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/dubai-debt-crisis...

[davepoth]

Papa Hotel said:

Shape is one thing, recreating the rise and fall of the road is quite another. Then there's the size, this isn't a small track.

Cost and logistics considered, I'm going to stick my neck on the line and call bullst on this.

True enough - you could do it with somewhere like Silverstone which is relatively flat, but the altitude change is 320 metres or so. Assuming the track is 8 metres wide, and 20,810 metres long, you would need to at a bare minimum move 53.3 million cubic metres of ground to either build a concrete rollercoaster above ground, or dig a canyon down, or a combination of the two. That's working on the assumption that you just dig or build directly under the track. Earth weighs something like 3 tonnes per cubic metre, so 150,000,000 tonnes to shift.

Here's what 150 million tonnes of rock salt looks like to give an idea.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwwuppertal/589064563...

[havoc]

Lost the link to this - think it was Car & Driver - but someone in Vegas has been talking to some Germans about doing a replica of the Nordschleife about 10 miles outside of Vegas.

...which is unusual for them - I mean, whenever I talk about Vegas, I ALWAYS say - "they're really original guys over there - give them their due, the creativity there is astounding, you'd never see a copy or image of something else anywhere near the place!"




And no, it's not April 1st - someone out there has had this idea. What's the total elevation change on the N'schleife again...and how many megatons of rock/sand/etc. will that require moving around on a flat desert???

[Mastodon2]

Jesus, and they say the original ring costs a fortune to run, can you imagine trying to claw back into the green after the billions it would cost to actually build the track?

[McSam]

Already up here

[crocodile tears]

Will be expensive.. But I can image there will be ALOT of demand over there

[hesnotthemessiah]

I suppose it would be fun having Elvis take you round instead of Sabine.....Oh scratch that....What am I thinking?....Sorry