The Dorp Loop
The inaugural Osdorp1 race day. ‘Dorp’ means village so this is a nice romantic loop around the village, out to the windmill and back.
Got all the lane changers right this time. In fact, if you want to keep the inside lane you are forced to use a lane changer each lap. Do nothing, find yourself in the slow lane. In racing as in life.
It’s not clear from these old plans but the straight lane changers are bi-directional. E is located close to the corner so that cars aren’t travelling full gas and are less likely to come out with the change in direction. Changing happened most in corner D though as it had the best racing line. Slow in, fast out.
In the event of leaving the track the analog protocol is: swear, drop controller, leap over track, put car back in, scramble to pick up controller, drive recklessly to make up all the time you’ve lost. With digital however, when you reslot you are blocking the lane until you start racing again. You can take a leisurely stroll back to your spot giving you time to enjoy the cursing of your competitors.
And so the multi-lane reslot track was conceived. Pick up the car, carefully place it in the marked bays in the middle of the track, wait for a gap in traffic and start your lap all over again. Which was no fun at all of course đš We settled on just putting the car in the outside lane and blaming any victim for not being on the inside đ.
- Osdorp is one of the 1950’s garden city expansions of Amsterdam on the ring canal to Haarlem. ‘Os’ means ox, which I’d never thought about before. Apparently though it’s not (my preference) Oxville, but rather a corruption of ‘oost’ as in East. “And yet it’s West of Amsterdam!?” you say. Well in 1100 the residents aligned themselves as east of Haarlem rather than west of Amsterdam. There must have been some real beef though. Amsterdam is way closer. In fact Osdorp isn’t even half-way to Halfweg đ¤ âŠī¸
