The Fastest Car in the World - Napier Railton - Assetto Corsa 

James May (Top Gear presenter) did a TV show about Brooklands - and slot car racing (Toys of his Youth) - so he built a full lap of what is left of Brooklands with scalextric - many parts of the old oval are now houses and suchlike. Keep up the top drawer content.

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a lot of great info here i downloaded all the cars associated and tracks

Nape as opposed to Napp?

Listening to Americans pronounce jaguar is hilariousl

Seriously! That would be amazing. I have seen some shots of some older Indycars that might be coming, but nothing older than the 1950s, still should be a blast

I want the original Indianapolis paved with bricks

I'd love to see some of the really old cars. The earliest I've found were three GP cars from 1923.

Are there any "vintage" variations of Indianapolis out there? If not, there should be!

That or a 1910 Mercer Raceabout

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A friend of mine is working on a colour painting of that photo. Looks amazing

@@steveclews1818 i would love to have a print like that on my wall!

@@happy_camper facebook.com/ralphlouis.southerton I don't know where he is with it but give him a shout if you're interested

Is the Campbell layout still there in one piece?

No it's not, funnily enough I went to the track recently and the inner circuit is mostly filled with hangars and museum pieces

yeah i played this version in rFactor, was just textures making the panels of concrete, they could fairly easily add physical polygons to represent the seams and randomize the heights fractionally to make the car shift and jolt...surely the modeler of this track could do it?

@@mkilner Lilski has videos exactly on how to do that

I believe the chicane is placed in the winter of 1951-52 for safety reasons. Before the chicane is installed, that corner is a fast left-hander leading to the start-finish line. After Giuseppe Farina demolished the lap record in a race there in 1951 (racing a single works Alfetta), people realized how close the cars were to the pitlane at the exit of the left-hander, and they feared that sooner or later, someone's going to make a mistake there, which would send a fast, out of control car into the pit buildings. So the erection of the chicane slowed the cars down and altered the exit in such ways that the pitlane is more secure. Bruce McLaren crashed somewhere at the Lavant straight. A rear bodywork malfunction caused a loss of rear downforce while at speed, destabilizing the car and sending it into a marshall's post (according to other sources the marshall's post is a reused old WW2-era pillbox), which, is due to be demolished, but hadn't been carried out at that point (the race track closed for racing in 1966) The thing is, the Napier-Railton could have some number of rather interesting competition. At Brooklands it used to compete against rather eclectic machineries, mostly racing specials, old Formula Libre machines and even old Land Speed Record cars, like racing specials based on Bentleys, and the Land Speed Record holder Delage DH V12.

I can't speak for GPLaps, but some of his recent videos do give an idea on the matter. Tracks he's run at and/or mentioned include Fonteny, the Nurburgring Sudschleife, Goodwood, and Donington '38. It's going to depend some on what cars you're looking at as to what the best track selection is. Classic F1 and post-War sportscars will go pretty well on a lot of the classic road courses (Bridgehampton, Riverside, VIR) or classic layouts of road courses ('60s Hockenheim, Imola '72, Zandvoort '67). You can probably put the less powerful pre-War cars like the 1923 machines featured recently or the 1930s Voiturettes (ERA Type B, Maserati 6CM) in that camp as well. For the more powerful pre-War cars (Mercedes SSK, W125, and W154; Auto Union Type C and D; Maserati 8CTF; Alfa Romeo 12C-36 and 158), you're likely going to want a circuit with more space and/or high-speed corners. So the Monza road course or combined circuit with no chicanes, one of the longer Montlhery layouts with no chicanes, the Nurburgring (Nordschleife, Sudschleife, Gesamtstrecke), Tripoli, Bremgarten, or the Duetschlandring are pretty good options. I think the Targa Florio may be a bit on the tight side for these cars to be as much fun there. And then you have some circuits that should be rather enjoyable for a range of vintage and classic cars. Several of the aforementioned could probably be included here, but you also have Reims, Rouen, Feldbergring, Battenbergring (coming soon), and a number of others. Admittedly, for the less powerful cars, the old ovals like Brooklands, Montlhery, and Monza may not be as exciting, as well as a circuit such as Reims. Likewise, a circuit along the lines of Tripoli isn't going to be as challenging in the less powerful or post-War machines. In terms of tracks specifically for the smaller cars, like the Voiturettes or F3 and FJ, there are some smaller tracks like Elaintarharata, Ring Djursland, Roskilde Ring, and Ahvenisto. Finally, this is just a small sampling. There are simply so many tracks available for AC that compiling a comprehensive list is impractical.

The Auto Union would do laps around this thing! The Napier was built to go in a straight line. The Auto Union doesnt love turning either, but it does it a whole lot better than the Napier!

@@GPLaps its true haha. I enjoy your content, dude. love it

They're all over the place. Some are very good, some are very poor. Its fun to tool around with but its not the same quality as some of the first party mods at say racedepartment.

@@GPLaps thanks for the heads up. I had put my eyes on several mods hosted there, but I don't have the necessary know how to understand if a mod is good enough or just a mediocre approximation of the real car.

Their more recent mods and updates are good, and they’ve even added windshield wiper animations to the GT cars for rain. The older mods feel like rush jobs though.

@@Logan912 But all the mods on that blog are made by them? Or they use assets from other sources?

@GracieVision Yes indeed! Stick around for the end, I take the beast on the old Brooklands oval. Definitely better suited for that type of circuit.

@@GPLaps I'm sorry, I didn't have time to watch the whole thing earlier. I do think the Brooklands track sim is taken from Spirit of Speed 37 after all, as I recognise that rather inauthentic train on the Railway Straight. The bump where the cars took off does seem to be in that sim though. Just after you go under the green footbridge the track goes over the River Wey, and by the 30s the foundations had subsided a little. If you go to the track now you can walk as far as the river, but you meet a fence. The part of the track that formed the bridge was demolished at outbreak of war to remove a potential river crossing for invading Nazi tanks.