Corner Number Question

[L1P1]

I'm looking at a map of RoadAmerica...

http://www.roadamerica.com/2006/images/maps/ra_map_2006.pdf

...and am wondering how they decide to number corners. Turn 1 is a proper corner, turn 2 seems to be a slight bend. 3A seems to be more of a bend than 4. The Carousel is two turns. I'm confused. Is there an accepted rhyme and reason to all this?

Or am I looking at the porta-potty locations?

[Steve99]

I'm guessing it has to do with the track changing over time, and not wanting to re-number all the turns.

[grungex]

Flagging stations?

[Opposite Lock]

Do Not Question RoadAmerica. Simply obey and respect its 'thorit-ay.

Speaking of Turn 2, I heard it was named after the Turn 2 Campground. :gomer:

[grungex]

Here's a map from 1963, not much has changed. If you assign the numbers from the current map to the flag stations on this map it begins to make more sense.

http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/WI/images/road-america-63.gif

[L1P1]

Here's a map from 1963...

Wow. Pretty impressive.

[grungex]

Err, I swiped it from North American Motorsports Pages (http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/).

[Andrew Longman]

So how does famed T5 become T5?

[grungex]

Because 4 is 3A. ;)

[Opposite Lock]

4A. Faure. The track designers dug the new stylin' sounds of Faure's Requiem, and named a station after it. Thus, T5 had to move on down the road.

[Ray Scar]

So how does famed T5 become T5?

Because it started life as "station 5".

grungex got right when he said it was "Flagging stations?". (I'm sure that '?' was just a typo.....:))

[Andrew Longman]

Because it started life as "station 5".

grungex got right when he said it was "Flagging stations?". (I'm sure that '?' was just a typo.....:))

But by my count flag station 6 is inside T5. :confused:

[Turn7]

"Goto TF" and ask.

[Steve99]

But by my count flag station 6 is inside T5. :confused:
I think you mis-counted flag station 3A.

[grungex]

grungex got right when he said it was "Flagging stations?". (I'm sure that '?' was just a typo.....:))
Yeah, that's it, it was a typo! :p

[Fitti Fan]

Who's on first?

[Andrew Longman]

I think you mis-counted flag station 3A.

No I missed 4A

http://www.roadamerica.com/2006/images/maps/ra_map_2006.pdf

RA apparently doesn't name corners but rather flag stations.

So back to the original question, is there a convention for naming corner numbers? It's a slow Monday and now I want to know.

Nazareth was said to have 3, 4, 5 even 7 turns. Sort of depended on the series that was running there and the line the equipment being used. I always though it was a bit odd they just didn't have it set.

[cameraman]

Corners? I give you some corners...


http://www.imsaracing.net/2006/events/saltlakecity/trackmap.pdf

[grungex]

Jeebus!

I just did the full course at Autobahn, I think it was 21 turns. Took me all day just to figure out where I was.

The other goofy one is Mid-Ohio, if you run the track using the chicane before Keyhole there are two extra corner numbers for the rest of the track. So the right-hander at the end of the back straight can be #4 (Champ Cars etc.) or #6 (clubs etc.) Argh.

[JT265]

"Goto TF" and ask.



:rofl: :rofl:

[Sean O'Gorman]

Jeebus!

I just did the full course at Autobahn, I think it was 21 turns. Took me all day just to figure out where I was.

The other goofy one is Mid-Ohio, if you run the track using the chicane before Keyhole there are two extra corner numbers for the rest of the track. So the right-hander at the end of the back straight can be #4 (Champ Cars etc.) or #6 (clubs etc.) Argh.

And I believe there is no corner 13 station at Mid-Ohio, it is where the original section (Oak Tree Bend) was that was removed after the first season.

[rjohnson999]

No.


So back to the original question, is there a convention for naming corner numbers?