Nevadaring a US replica in the works?
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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...
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/03/12/exact-nurburgri...
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.Cost and logistics considered, I'm going to stick my neck on the line and call bullst on this.
Here's what 150 million tonnes of rock salt looks like to give an idea.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwwuppertal/589064563...
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???
...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???
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