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Trackpedia.com Track Guides

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While away on a trip here recently I started thinking about getting back on the track this summer and how there are each year more and more people attending track days and driver education events. I was thinking back to the first track day I did a long time ago and was trying to remember what did I want most. Answer was a fairly comprehensive guide of the track I was going to drive...this same thing holds true today when I go to a new track.

So started looking around the web and found that the world was desperately short on a single good resource out there that gave people the information about various tracks such as turn by turn references, videos, or heck even contact and geographic location. So being that I work every day with the web I decided to start to throw something together.

Over the weekend here I hammered the infrastructure behind a wiki (online community editable encyclopedia) that has a goal of being the best reference for track information around that world. The webpage is http://www.trackpedia.com please go out and take a look.

I know a lot of you NSX folks track your cars so I just wanted to make you aware of the site and hopefully plead for some of you to help contribute to the site.

Anyway if you all would please check out the site and let me know what you think. Feel free to add or modify what you want on the page (as thats the point of a wiki) and I will do my best here over the next few months while not working at my regular job to incorperate your comments to make the page better either with layout, information or other things. As I said if you want to help contribute as well by all means just go ahead I grant you free reign on the site.

The folks at rennlist and ferrarichat have already been my test pilot group as I frequent those forums the most but I need a much more hardcore racer crowd to tell me what they really think of the site.

By all means be critical to me as I want to improve the page as much as possible to make it 100% useful for everyone.
 
jjstecher said:
So started looking around the web and found that the world was desperately short on a single good resource out there that gave people the information about various tracks such as turn by turn references, videos, or heck even contact and geographic location.
What about these?

North American Motorsports Pages
e-tracks World Motor Racing Circuits
Race Track Locator
Tracks Around the World

I use the first one a lot, and find that it often has most of the information you're looking for.
 
I have been to those pages as well but in all honesty none of those pages are really to user friendly and even more so none of them are updateable beyond the owner and the folks they designate. The beauty of the wiki is that anyone can edit and update things. So for example if you drive a NSX or a F348 in my case versus a Spec Miata we will be driving completely different lines. So with the wiki the Miata driver can add their line and we can add our own to create a more informative mapping of the track for everyone.

The other sites no doubt have good information but I would say that if I can get enough contributors and have people take 10 minutes to write down what they think of specific turns the site would become really awesome.

For example take a look at the track guides for the following tracks and specifically the turn by turn sections this is where I think this site can shine versus the other duller ones...well that and I have vids and other things :)

http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blackhawk_Farms
http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mid_America_Motorplex
http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Brainerd_International_Raceway
http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Carolina_Motorsports_Park
http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Barber_Motorsports_Park

Those writeup are from 5 different people and you can see the differences in lines and other things. I think that this is what is missing from the other sites cause most of the other descriptions are just not that solid or helpful.

Anyway thanks for your thoughts and trust me I have been to the other sites they just don't have what I believe the community needs.
 
I guess what I am trying to say is it combines all the above along with track guides and location information into one...giving the beginner one stop shopping and the professional great data.
 
Just curious. What happened to trackpedia? It is gone. Did something replace it?
 
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