This week for my Genus Hour project I have made a added another jump around the backside straight. Also I have sloped out another turn that leads to the backside straight.
So, putting this other jump around the backside straight will 1 make this section more fun and 2, make the exit turn easier to hit good because the truck wont be going as fast before the turn. I believe this will better the track cause you will have more control going into the turn making it easier to accelerate in and out of the turn. In slopping out the turn leading to the backside straight, I believe that it will improve the track by being able to hit the turn at full speed. Being able to hit the turn at full speed will give u the extra boost to hit the jump after the turn at higher speeds. Which will put you in a better place in the straight so you will have a little place to build up some speed before the next turn so you dont have to build up all your speed in the corner. So in conclusion, I think that this week has been a pretty good week overall. I think I am coming along very good with my project as my track is already a lot better then it was originally. Next week i hope to prefect the backside straight and make sure that where I put this jump was a good place for it. Also to make sure it all flows together.
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So, this week for my genius hour project I've added a small whoops section in the track. For those of you that don't know what that is, its a series of small jumps that you basically just skim right over.
In the process of making the whoops I realized that in my track there wasn't really a good place to put them because of the turns. So i came up with the solution of making a part in the track a split track. What i did was I made the whoops on one side of this straightaway and made a barrier at the and of that would double as a sloped turn. So really i could say this was a win win because i wasnt origionally going to slope out this turn because it doubled as a straight in the track. This week for my genius hour project what I did was I re did the jumps in the track. I also dug out another one of the turns in it.
First, I had to dig out the turn so I would have the dirt available to redo the jumps. Some of the troubles I had were this turn I dug out was in between 2 trees. So I started out digging about 6” deep and then realized there were some very big roots that would be basically impossible to get out of the ground without digging up the tree. So then I started to dig a little shallower so I didn't have to work around all the roots. After I got this turn dug out and sloped I used the dirt that I didn't use for the slope to redo the one of the jumps. So overall this week has been petty successful week This week for my Genuis Hour project I dug out one of the turns in the track. I also piled up dirt around the edge of the turn so tht the turn would be sloped.
Digging out this area of the track was a tad difficult because this particular turn goes around a tree stump. So, I had to dig up some roots in the process. Digging up roots isn’t the easiest thing to do if u don’t have anything but a shovel to get them up with. But anyway, I plan on digging out the rest of the track in the weeks to come so that I will be able to got faster on the track because I will have something to hold me in the turns. Sloping the turns is what’s going to hold me in. You see if you hit a turn thts flat you will have to slow down some before getting into the turn. But with the sloped turns all you have to do it hit the slope and it’ll take u all the way through the turn even at full speed. In conclusion, this week has been pretty successful considering I didn’t have any access to the skid loader. I had to use the shovel for this part. In the future I hope to be able to use the skid loader to dig out the track. One, because the work will go a whole lot faster and two, because it levels out the ground better then just me and the shovel. That’s all I got for this week be back next week. This week for my genius hour project i researched ideas for different things i could add to the track. What i plan on doing is drawing out what it will look like before i do it so i remember my ideas.
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