What city needs a street circuit?

Why set up a race circuit in a city? Public roads add a layer of difficulty for both driver and car alike that aren’t normally found at a dedicated race track, like varied road surfaces with differing levels of grip and a lack of runoff area that make mistakes costly.

You’ve just been tasked with finding a location for the next great street circuit™. Where is it located, and what series is it going to be used in?

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golfduke Dork
6/28/22 12:48 p.m.

Boston, because I always vote for pure chaos.

93EXCivic MegaDork
6/28/22 12:49 p.m.

San Francisco

wae PowerDork
6/28/22 12:50 p.m.

NASCAR Cup Series using that loop road for the terminal pick ups and drop offs at DFW.

wae PowerDork
6/28/22 12:53 p.m.

93EXCivic said:
San Francisco

With stadium trucks

AMiataCalledSteve New Reader
6/28/22 1:02 p.m.

It's always fun when video game designers build the street circuits we'll never get.

With stadium trucks

It may not exactly be a sim racer, but Blur has you covered:

aircooled MegaDork
6/28/22 1:06 p.m.

wae said:
93EXCivic said:
San Francisco

With stadium trucks

With diesel powered Hummers.

(Which is about as likely as any car race in SF)

I have to say, in general, street circuits are very narrow, make for bad racing, hard to watch and based on sim driving, not enjoyable to drive (in the GRM AC racing series, we avoid them like the plague).

triumph7 HalfDork
6/28/22 1:34 p.m.

Not Cincinnati... unless you want off-road truck! (Yes, our streets are that bad and , no, we don't need another tax levy promising to fix them.)

Keith Tanner GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/28/22 1:36 p.m.

wae said:
93EXCivic said:
San Francisco

With stadium trucks

Mustang vs Charger shootout.

codrus (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
6/28/22 1:39 p.m.

aircooled said:
I have to say, in general, street circuits are very narrow, make for bad racing, hard to watch and based on sim driving, not enjoyable to drive (in the GRM AC racing series, we avoid them like the plague).

Yeah, I'm gonna go with none. We've got more than enough of them already.

Asphalt_Gundam Reader
6/28/22 1:44 p.m.

Not a circuit but I'd love to see a rally sprint stage (dirt + asphalt sections) or Touge battle setup (Formula D would be bonkers as well) be run on Skyline Avenue in Duluth, MN. Twists, turns, through the woods and over look views with the twin ports as the backdrop. Would be one heck of a spectacle event IMO.