Post by axslayer33 on Sept 5, 2016 22:58:37 GMT
Evening all. So I've started an interesting series of tracks...
Little backstory: For those of you who don't know, the Youga's got a bit of a hidden history easter egg to it.
Over in Japan, they've got this thing called Dajiban racing. Now, bike racing is huge in Japan, up there with kart/cup-car racing here in the states (even bigger, possibly). Now back in the day, when the U.S. had a significant military presence on the islands, they shipped in hundreds if not thousands of third-gen Dodge Ram/B-Series Vans to be workhorses. When the Yanks pulled out, they sold the vans at surplus, and the MotoGP community bought them up to haul their bikes to the track. A few years ago, a bunch of bikers led by Abe Takuro were on lunch during time trials at Japan's famed Ebisu Circuit. They had the crazy idea that it'd be fun to take the vans for a spin around the track, just for the hell of it.
Turns out, it was fun as all hell.
Now the D-Van GP is a yearly event held at Ebisu, the D-Van community has grown beyond some mooks with old vans to a force dedicated to turning these rustbuckets into bona fide, Brembo-braked, carbon-fibered, roll-caged racing machines; and an entire company, the I-5 Corporation, has sprung up to support these unorthodox racers.
What's this got to do with the Youga?
Well, the Youga's based primarily off the Dodge B-Series. It's got LSC mods to turn it into a D-Van racer. And, it just so happens to share its name with I-5's hometown - Youga, Tokyo.
Now that that's out of the way, you're probably wondering the hell does this have to do with CC tracks. Well, in honor of the Youga's quiet bearing of history, I've decided to build a series of Dajiban tracks. I've so far built three, hoping to complete two more and form a playlist with them, but I could use some critique.*
*Read: I have no idea what the hell I'm doing, please point out anywhere I've fucked up.
The tracks, in order of their future playlist ranking, are:
Davis Court
Dock Trials
and Mountain Glen
Let me know what you think.
Little backstory: For those of you who don't know, the Youga's got a bit of a hidden history easter egg to it.
Over in Japan, they've got this thing called Dajiban racing. Now, bike racing is huge in Japan, up there with kart/cup-car racing here in the states (even bigger, possibly). Now back in the day, when the U.S. had a significant military presence on the islands, they shipped in hundreds if not thousands of third-gen Dodge Ram/B-Series Vans to be workhorses. When the Yanks pulled out, they sold the vans at surplus, and the MotoGP community bought them up to haul their bikes to the track. A few years ago, a bunch of bikers led by Abe Takuro were on lunch during time trials at Japan's famed Ebisu Circuit. They had the crazy idea that it'd be fun to take the vans for a spin around the track, just for the hell of it.
Turns out, it was fun as all hell.
Now the D-Van GP is a yearly event held at Ebisu, the D-Van community has grown beyond some mooks with old vans to a force dedicated to turning these rustbuckets into bona fide, Brembo-braked, carbon-fibered, roll-caged racing machines; and an entire company, the I-5 Corporation, has sprung up to support these unorthodox racers.
What's this got to do with the Youga?
Well, the Youga's based primarily off the Dodge B-Series. It's got LSC mods to turn it into a D-Van racer. And, it just so happens to share its name with I-5's hometown - Youga, Tokyo.
Now that that's out of the way, you're probably wondering the hell does this have to do with CC tracks. Well, in honor of the Youga's quiet bearing of history, I've decided to build a series of Dajiban tracks. I've so far built three, hoping to complete two more and form a playlist with them, but I could use some critique.*
*Read: I have no idea what the hell I'm doing, please point out anywhere I've fucked up.
The tracks, in order of their future playlist ranking, are:
Davis Court
Dock Trials
and Mountain Glen
Let me know what you think.