>>>>> It's a great track, very thoughtfully laid out
>>>>> and finished.
>>>> Yea, if you have the energy and strength of purpose to memorize all
>>>> the damn turns.
>> (Weird. My news server didn't pickup your post. I saw it in Uwe's
>> response...)
>> I crossed that bridge long ago, back when GPL's Nurburgring was new and
>> fresh. It *was* difficult. The track map names defied memorization until
>> the nice folks here helped translate them to something I could relate to
>> in English. A bit of the folklore also helps you memorize the names, and
>> then you can label your memories of their shapes.
> How does knowing the names (in whatever language) help you getting through
> all the turns as fast as possible? I can drive a few dozen tracks in my
> mind, but I don't know more than 2 turns by name... =8^O
sections of the north loop. The names help to anchor things. Estoril versus
Barcelona, for example, or Kallenhardt versus Bergwerk. Or Esses, Carousel,
and Keyhole at Mid-America. You might categorize things differently. I can't
imagine *not* putting a label on it, even something made up. "The 2nd gear
hairpin leading opening onto the 4th gear left-right chicane." (But "Bit
Kurve" already sums that up for me.)