Racing Circuit - Cities: Skylines - Altengrad 49

[@diyarrashid7877]

I was ligit thinking of the story behind this place and I think I made a good one. The Altengrad Race Tracks was originally created as Horse Derby Race in 1876 to appease the upper class of the city it remained in use as that with monthly races. Until it went out of commission in 1915 where it was made into a place of testing early war vehicles and was generaly used for training new troops due to open space. When the war ended in 1918 it was left abandoned as by that point it was heavily damaged from ariel bombing and the city simply didn't have the money to rebuild it and that was the same story for most of 1920s until it was restored as a race track for the new cars of the era somthing that could be enjoyed by all classes and somthing that could help the city gain attraction (as in tourists). That was the story I did.

[@TRichardsBlades]

You should put a few lake mansions up on those upper lakes, kind of like the retreats for the businessmen in the city

[@Secretlyalittleworm]

I’m stealing that idea

[@Человек-с9ю6р]

I think it will be a very long time, if at all, because this is a Central European city and it was the last series before the war. And after the war, all of Central Europe was communist, so there were no businessmen there. Consequently, it would only be possible to implement your idea in the '90s or even later.

[@kevinouellette4443]

Creating your own race car was brilliant, and the wheelbarrow wheel for a steering wheel is genius! 🚗 The accident, the oil slick, BRAVO!

[@namenamename390]

It is actually terrifying to think about the complete lack of safety in the early days of motorsports. By the time F1 was a thing in the 50s (so even later than when the Altengrad track was built), cars could go fairly fast, and the crash protection was hay bales at best.

[@Oskiinus]

F1's morbid face was gone pretty much after Senna crashed. Back then, you had multiple crashes, multiple deaths, often in training or qualifying - the most morbid case would be, and I know it's Le Mans but fits the topic, a 1955 crash when a Mercedes-Benz flew into the spectators and there were 84 deaths, 120 injuries. The crash was responsible for MB quitting motorsport for 40 years Back to F1 though: back in the day, you for example had Lauda's terrifying 1976 incident where he almost burned alive, Senna's Imola crash, not to mention Jochen Rindt being the only driver to win a World Championship posthumously

[@alieffauzanrizky7202]

@@Oskiinus that and the invention of carbon fibre monocoque

[@Oskiinus]

@@alieffauzanrizky7202 this too, but compare some racetracks, not even in F1, in racing in general, how they changed - even the famous Nordschleife is far more of a racetrack today, and strictly controlled, back in the 1960s it felt more like some local backroads pinned together for a racetrack layout

[@ayavaska]

First carpark - and near the racing circuit. Seems logical! Also, Riga, Latvia, has a racing track in a forest, built in 1950, looks similar.

[@tylerhoop5312]

I think a good build is an old airport just a dirt runway in a farm field with some hangers and buildings. Something small and old. Also If you modernize it you can use the same concrete panel roads.

[@madalheidis]

I reckon that would be an appropriate addition during the WW2 period in the city, definitely.

[@tylerhoop5312]

@@madalheidis Well I was thinking it predates WWII but then is expanded on during that period, then destroyed during the war, and slowly rebuilt in until becoming a major airport in the 1950s

[@WW2Fr3k]

This was one of my favorite Altengrads so far!! I LOVE racing and sim racing so watching you make that circuit was so cool. If you ever want help "Modernizing" the track layout as the time goes buy please reach out to me! I am very knowledgeable on race tracks!

[@ScorpioRyoga]

My God! Mixed feelings! I'm just so glad you're done with the 30s, and I'm really glad to see you working on the city in the 40s (and further, ofcourse!). At the same time I could easily watched another 49 builds in the 30s. You did amazing work with the first 49!

[@moenchii]

As a big motorsport fan I was waiting for an episode like this! The circuit looks really good. I hope the circuit survives into the modern day and gets upgraded to become a classic like Spa-Francorchamps or Monza.

[@Oskiinus]

Hey, that's a nice racetrack! Honestly, I wish it'll be maintained over time, it'd be interesting to see this track as sort of place for car nuts in Altengrad Also, the hairpin kinda gives me Nordschleife's Carousel vibes - all it'd need for so is a stretch of the flat road on the top of the turn

[@therealslimshady3662]

First, let me say that I'd really like to drive your track design^^ Its a nice somewhat Indianapolis style start-finish line with a counterclockwise orientation (judging from the position of the bridge) and a good turn one that would probably even be survivable in online games. T2 and T3 are a nice shikane, T4 an easy left-hander into the T5 righthander, T6 uphill hairpin to a soft T7 right onto T8 wide lefthander into a long straight, T9 and start finish line. Pretty solid, simple track that should give lots of oportunity to overtake. Let me give you some advice on what you might want to improove over the coming decades: up until the 50's, you should be fine. Depending on what side of the pond youre playing, your track might get bombed though. Somewhere in the 50's, a great crash happens in LeMans that nearly ends motorsport as we know it, starting off the modernization of Motorsports towards driver and spectator safety. +/- 10 years from then, you might want to think about -expanding the roll off areas around the high speed turns (T1 can easily hit 160+mph even by the 30's, if youre good you can hit 100+ on T5, if your break fails on T6 youre done for too) -Improoving guardrails (cmon man fence at the edge of the concrete on T1? thats attempted murder lol) -Maybe organize the Pitlanes better by 1960 -Around this time, placing large amounts of haybales and tire walls becomes a thing Around the late 60's to early 70's, motorsports get a new boost in popularity that lasts up into the 1990's and early 2000's, again expanding roll-offs and improoving spectator, then driver safety should be focus. -Double, tripple or quadruple the amount of stands. VIP Lounges become a thing. -A Catchfence (not a regular fence, catchfence catches cars) becomes mandatory as cars develop a radical tendency to have identity crisises mid-race and think they are planes. -A solid wall between pit-area and racetrack might be considered, but is not mandatory yet -Now might be the moment you want to decide if Altengrad Raceway becomes franchise track for a specific racing league (see F1, Stockcars, Indie, touring cars, etc) which all come with their own demands in track safety. At least by the 1980's, a clearly sepperate pit area becomes mandatory, considerations for parts of the track to be rebuild to lower speeds could be made, alternative layouts (shorter tracks, a rallye-cross section, the omnipresent oval and dirtoval if youre playing the USA) could have become affordable to the people running the track. Alternatively you could say the neighbours complained too much and racing didnt pay off, so eventually the track gets turned into a large amusement park, retaining the allready laid out concrete but building waterpark stuffs or something. Anyways i like racetracks.

[@dragonlukasmapping805]

27:26 i see you did that mafia reference awesome :D 25:23 I wonder who did that crash. Wasn't that racer called Tomas Angelo? :D

[@dereksmith6126]

A 50 episode introduction. That must be some kind of record!! It's an excellent series and I can't wait to see how the city progresses and changes. You have some brilliant skills Sir.

[@marekvavrecka1446]

See what you did there with Lichtenberg. Nice easter egg. Looking for Altengrad during WWII

[@rwddesign879]

Always a fan of anything racing. No issues with not really having anything around the circuit; there rarely was in those days. A few haybales in front of a light post or something is about all you'd get. The odd fully wooden fence with sandbags holding it down in city areas and that's about it. They also most likely would not have had an ambulance on site. Even into the 60s ambulances were a rare luxury in motorsport; especially European style motorsport. Great stuff! Thanks for sharing

[@zumty100]

"certain event in the 40's" what could it be 😁

[@QuodNomenTibiEst]

I hope he doesn't take Rotterdam as inspiration....

[@CloakerM8]

@@QuodNomenTibiEst Only the church will remain

[@koen2715]

Oh yes that old school track looks amazing, realistic and very fun to drive. Having it located in a forest makes it even better :)

[@joaoroque5333]

In the tracks, maybe you could create a bus loop with some type of race cars instead of buses, that with a couple of loops would had 1 stop in the pitbox

[@Akruas]

That's exactly what I was explaining in the video.

[@prostetnikjeltz6801]

That racetrack is really great. I would love to see race-cars driving around on it!

[@dalton-at-work]

its interesting to hear someone who previously wasn't knowledgable about historic racing talk about what they learned. it was crazy times, the men driving (and people who went to watch trackside) were daredevils risking their lives for sport. many good people died before safety was taken seriously.

[@Charles_Anthony]

I knew that layout looked familiar. I've been playing Mafia lately and that hair pin turn was a dead giveaway. The Saboteur is another game that has racing from the 1940s.

[@Illkiron]

It's crazy to think that was the introduction!!! Thanks for the good work Akruas!

[@orionqc]

Procedurals object is the craziest shit i ever seen nice video

[@wolverinedymosco56]

This really resembles the track in Mafia game! This is so good!

[@pedrocanelas4946]

Incredible build. Incredible city.

[@venomlesscz9525]

i would LOVE to play some sort of story driven game based in this city :D you are amazing man!

[@pawelr]

It's really fun to watch this series - you're very creative. Can't wait for the era with Soviet tenement blocks around the city :)

[@my7username7is]

Look forward to seeing how the city is going to change over the coming decades

[@liljendal20]

Omg yes! That's what were talking about! amazing track :)

[@nicolasflorez6399]

I would love to see a bathing area in Altengrad. Maybe around some little lake or something like that, would be awesome!

[@HendrikDaStar]

Ur level of details and ideas in this city is so high. Really enjoyed this episode :-)

[@Nick-yi4tr]

NOIOOOOooOOoOoOooOoooOOOOOOO i dont want to watch altengrad get invaded by a certain foreign power during the 1940s i might cry a little bit tbh

[@sushantomajumder734]

Taking inspiration from games is the way to go in C. S.

[@rolandsturm6675]

Excellent Built. But what I miss, is a little Airfield, with Planes from the '30th

[@kertaspaper94]

I assume that racetrack will be constantly updated as the decades go by

[@Akruas]

Most probably yes.

[@tannerrobinson5110]

I can't wait for next year's 24 hours of Altengrad.

[@citiesinsane8519]

The driver wasn´t hurt....puuuh....so lucky about it.....

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

I was thinking of Mafia as you were doing it. Then you say you took most of your inspiration from that game 😂 This mission was too easy in the rework.

[@koen2715]

I can see you took some inspiration from Monza (Italy) and Nurburgring (Germany), maybe some other circuits aswell. In later episodes there needs to be some runoff added in some corners to improve safety for drivers.

[@stratostzovenos3203]

Absolutely love the hairpin, nurburgring nordshleife must be proud 😊

[@one_under_all]

You should upload this save file to steam. It would be so awesome 🤩 being able to see your creation up close

[@nulnoh219]

Aw man.... With network buildings from the Airport DLC maybe we can make network Grandstands for Race tracks!

[@MoolbniBrie]

Ooh. I wonder what the big event will be. Will Altengrad be bombed by axis/allied powers, will there be a revolution and a conversion to a satellite state for the USSR? Will the race track actually be abandoned or will it become a world gp circuit? Who knows!

[@cloudsurfing8997]

You are a wizard! ✌🏼

[@okapijohn4351]

When a Zoological Garden in Altengrad?

[@Akruas]

Prolly never, no good assets for it.

[@okapijohn4351]

@@Akruas come on, a skilled guy like you can't go around that? There is a nice berlin Zoologischer garten gate.

[@Akruas]

@@okapijohn4351 A gate is hardly all that's needed. Besides, I just don't want to.

[@rico4.700]

Cant wait for June 11 1955

[@manaus5782]

I would love it if you could load up this stands into the Workshop

[@nameinvalid69]

27:00 there always the ULOD mod to increase draw distance of those props, decals, etc. madness PO btw...

[@Akruas]

nothing to do with that, they're just too small for the resolution

[@cherhy5043]

You should also build some animal section instead of spamming farms everywhere. Btw great episode

[@57thorns]

I saw a wildlife generator in the map editor (I think).

[@57thorns]

50 episodes and how many hours of painstaking model work in, and we are now ready to begin the series? 🙂 Looking forwards to it.

[@edkkk6166]

If I understood u right, you’re going to build the city decade by decade? If so, that’s really awesome!

[@Akruas]

That was the plan right from the start.

[@edkkk6166]

@@Akruas and from now you just became my favourite Skylines builder!

[@arnof1676]

Great! In the future, it might be interesting to add a ring road. Maybe not for the 40s, but later. This ring road could separate the "old" city from the "new" one, which will be composed of large blocks in the Soviet style?

[@Akruas]

I have lots of plans for infrastructure, rings will happen for sure, not exactly sure if they'll divide the city somehow.

[@HAVVKZ]

Verstappen would probably struggle to keep up with Hamilton here, looks like a Mercedes kind of track

[@moenchii]

I guess the track will have major changes if it survives into the modern day. Just look at tracks like Spa or Hockenheim.

[@nekto4658]

That people will never see a race on the circuit 😪 And this infinity burning car wiil be an infinity engine for the future people)

[@dragonlukasmapping805]

Didn't you take inspiration for that circuit from Masarykův Okruh in Brno? :3

[@Akruas]

No

[@soundlessbird9181]

As a F1 fans, this circuit have virtually no chance to overtake, you need to profile your turns sharper after a long straight, just like Tilke.

[@Akruas]

This is not F1.

[@martinschmiedt3075]

You do know that cars were actually able to outmanouvre each other back in the day when they were shorter,lighter,slower and handled less predictably and had sharper turning angles,right? This would've been perfectly adequate for the Auto Unions and Alfa Romeos of the era.

[@sekritdokumint9326]

Are you going to construct things like bunkers, Anti-Air towers and other things like military factories during the 40s?

[@Akruas]

Nope, but there'll be a whole war "episode".

[@alieffauzanrizky7202]

The layout somehow remind me of lime rock park circuit

[@knmaherijayatp8181]

your circuit layout looks like laguna seca

[@RN-du8wr]

Watching this video as I type so if I hit the mark before it's mentioned, that's why. In america, nascar was intimately links in it's origins with moonshine. Shiners had to escape the fuzz regularly so they developed routes with lots of dangerous turns and such to lose their pursuers. (Thats highly summarized, more events led to Nascar than just that but it's what I'm focusing on) could a parralel history be included in Altengrad lore?

[@hoholu4650]

can you make downloadable save? (every end of decade?)

[@pacmanpakkas]

how did he do the river with the node controller?

[@Akruas]

I didn't use node controller, just placed the terraforming network and made it smooth with network multitool.

[@pacmanpakkas]

@@Akruas is that a mod, my rivers always turn out janky lol

[@เมย์มีเรื่องเล่า]

Can you upload this file save to steam before 40s ?

[@Akruas]

I'll think about it.

[@Buizerd88]

love it

[@petosim7679]

real good

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Will altengrad have an airport ? I know a lot of European cities have really small airfields from time. They weren’t big enough for a jet but large enough for the planes back then. Or is that something that may get built in WW2 in altengrad?

[@Akruas]

It won't have an airport.

[@junkus64]

i knew that reference

[@wisemango]

Map?

[@Akruas]

Yes

[@shepherdla322]

Please keep a save of the current map before you change anything 🙏

[@superpoc8096]

Will your city be damaged by the Great Depression?

[@maxvasilyev7245]

mission from mafia 1 ))

[@alexpetrov3289]

Just to let you know, your auto generated subtitles are in Korean (idk how they are generated, so can't say if it's some setting on your side or not)

[@Akruas]

It's not a setting on my part, idk how it chooses that.

[@nedvb6676]

Never been so excited for ww2 to happeb

[@GabrielOliveira-pr7po]

✌️

[@isopod_gaming-real-]

20:55 5 fps, you need to slow down

[@МусаЮсупов-о2д]

😈☝️

[@정의훈-t6h]

all those inane wacko city skyline videos gets half a million views and them a rather decent one like this gets only few hundred… what is with the masses

[@greenoes1378]

how is ur pc not on fire.......

[@ghhjjable]

Mr.Salieri sends his regards.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

"I understood that reference."