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Post Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:28 am

Avus [GP of Germany 1959]

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Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße Berlin (AVUS)

AVUS, the Cradle of the Autobahn and iconic track of the Silberpfeil. The Berlin Avus was once the fastest race track in international motorsport. Two endless straights, a hair raisingly dangerous banking (Nordkurve) and hairpin on the other end (Südschleife). Driven at maximum speed nearly 3/4 of the time this makes for a unique setup that demands minimal air resistance and stresses your engine to the absolute maximum.

The track was insane by todays standards, and in the 1930s it was the ideal proving ground for the latest engines, aerodynamics and tyres. After 1945 it was becoming obsolete (too fast and dangerous and not a drivers course) but the 1959 Grand Prix of Germany was held in Berlin. For political reasons, and visitors from East Berlin could pay their tickets with East Mark (people could still freely enter West-Berlin until August 13 1961). The Formula 1 event was won by Tony Brooks, then tragedy struck in the sports car race. Previous year champion Jean Behra left the banking, collided with the remains of a Flak position and died. As a consequence no races whatsoever were held for three years. When racing commenced again it was restricted to smaller cars. This went on throughout the 70s and 80s. In 1995 DTM pulled after even more accidents and fatalities even on mitigated layouts. Eventually the track officially ended in 2000 when the Lausitzring (ca 100km from Berlin) opened. Today you can drive the straights yourselves as they have become part of the public Autobahn (with 100km/h limit, and modernized road surface). Some of the buildings still remain, but Nordkurve and Südschleife have been completely dismantled in the 1960s, so historically not much exists of the track.

The AVUS was the very first piece of Autobahn in the world, although it was initially not free to use. The fee was 10 Mark, quite considerable for 1921.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVUS

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Mercedes W 154 of 1939

There is also a 2 minute sequence in a 1960s film, that shows how the track would have looked during the Berlin division:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFmIQ_LkoRQ

I did Avus for 2 reasons. First I am a Berliner and second I thought that a real high speed track was missing from the game anyway. On the straights you will hit 400, 500, perhaps even 600 km/h. The track was completely redone and updated version 2.0, and uses a correct aerial photo (ca 1953) instead of the faulty wikipedia version. The wikipedia version was not correct because, even though Avus is shown completely straight on most plans and looks straight from many points on the ground, but from other vantage points (Funkturm) you can see that there is a slight left curve directly after bridge Hüttenweg, as the road makes a little turn around Triebwagenhalle Hundekehle (S-Bahn). I adjusted that and many other things with the aerial image.

Track Version 2.3
There are now two options, one historic (1959) and one for the modern times.The track layout and times are 100% identical, both are the same track version, only with a different background image

Avus 1959
The "realistic" black white version based on the Google aerial image from ca 1953
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Avus 1991
A slightly colorized version for the 1991 race. Not 100% accurate but it may be a bit less bleak to look at.
Avus 1991.zip
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It's not a perfect recreation of the track, but it should be close enough. To win you should make use of the two super long straights. You can reach in excess of 500 km/h with minimal aerodynamic drag. Aero is tricky on this track considering that 2/3 of the track time is spent full throttle.

In the same spirit as strop's Pikes Peak track I have made adjustments that should give high powered turbos a good chance. Kudos to strop for the heads up. Turbos can get better lap times than N/A engines, but this does not mean that the car with the most horsepower will win.

Also see the competitions I run on the track

1990 (finished)
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=8993

1991 (finished)
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=9126
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Post Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:54 am

Re: Avus

If someone knows how I can make the cars go counterclockwise to the left without turning the track around, let me know.


Not right now you can't! All cars start facing right at this stage.
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Post Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:15 am

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Ok then I did the right thing. That's why I turned the track to the left.
I had thought about moving the start/finish to the back straight but that would be stupid.
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Post Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:48 am

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Sticklers for track accuracy (of which I am one) would be grateful!
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Post Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:38 am

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There is nothing I can do about that.

The track should be tilted with the start ca 45 degrees to the Southwest. Right now the car would go into nomans land :)

I could of course add a corner at the start, but that would increase lap time by several seconds.
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Post Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:53 am

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oh no no no, don't do that, not unless you want to create a flying lap instead (that's what I did with Pikes Peak, because the official times are flying start.)
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Post Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:25 am

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new version of the track
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Post Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:43 pm

Re: Avus [GP of Germany 1959[ [*completely redone]

Version 2.0
I completely redid the track with aerial imagery, it should be as accurate as possible now.
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Post Tue Jan 05, 2016 2:08 am

Re: Avus [GP of Germany 1959[ [*completely redone]

Version 2.1

The last version crashed with a LUA error, I adjusted the scale factor and it seems to work again.
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Post Wed Jan 06, 2016 12:34 am

Re: Avus [GP of Germany 1959[ [*completely redone]

Ok, I will run a competition for 1000/1500cc cars on Jan 17

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Post Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:48 pm

Re: Avus [GP of Germany 1959[ [*completely redone]

I made a slightly colorized version for the modern era (1990s challenge), not perfect but perhaps a bit less bleak to look at.
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Post Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:49 am

Re: Avus [GP of Germany 1959]

Hm, I just realized the layout of the 1936-39 GPs (19km) is still very well recognizable in a 1953 aerial photo.

Take note of the white thing on the right (South), either this is the old Südkehre or rather the never completed banking.
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Re: Avus [GP of Germany 1959]

AVUS, the Cradle of the Autobahn and iconic track of the Silberpfeil. The Berlin Avus was once the fastest race track in international motorsport. Two endless straights, a hair raisingly dangerous banking (Nordkurve) and hairpin on the other end (Südschleife). Driven at maximum speed nearly 3/4 of the time this makes for a unique setup that demands minimal air resistance and stresses your engine to the absolute maximum.
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