Tsukuba Motor Marathon circuit

[LibertyBell]

This track came when I was viewing this circuit on Google Earth to think of an edit. This led me to see that the only way you could make Tsukuba exciting was by 1) tearing the whole shebang down, or 2) having another circuit nearby. I couldn't find anything at the site worth holding a race on and I couldn't find any good possibilties for an edit.. Then, after a fun Friday night, I came up with a drunken epiphany -if you can call it that. Why not hold a race in the mountains to the east?

This is the result. It's not short by any means- nearly 30 miles long, and about a 40 minute-long lap, I reckon. There's lots of corners, a lot of switchbacks, and a lot of straightaways. The start line is about 9.5 miles away from the glorified little kart track that I mentioned earlier.

I know this is completely and utterly impractical, so don't worry about that.

If this could be done, I'd put some vintage events here, maybe a D1 GP in the mountains, in the rain... Or maybe some WRC cars, Sega Rally style.

Link: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1635382

[bio]

A weird experience... My immediate reaction was to say it's waaaaaaay to twisty - but then i remembered that it's not a normal 5-6 kilometer lap, so all the twists and turns are to be considered on a different scale

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[Tathrim]

What a monster circuit. truly remarkable.

[Lustigson]

Wow, dude. It would almost be suitable for late 1800s city-to-city racing, with that length.