Double Carrier – Austin Bunton Designs

We have two kinds of vehicle-based races in our city; street-races on our highway sections, and track races here.

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Table of Contents:

Intro
Racecars
Lodging
Racing Types
2021 Update
Overall (Images Begin)
The Ship
The Racetrack Stadium
The Racecars and Related Vehicles
The Girls
Flags Along the Top of the Stadium
2023 Update: 2022 Scale-model in Minecraft

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Intro:

Based on the racetracks of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), this automobile sporting arena is the next level; instead of being a track built within a stadium on the ground, Inisfree’s NASCAR track is built atop two custom oversized aircraft carriers fused together in the largest catamaran ever conceived. With its two giant ships weighing in at 95,000 tons a piece (their weight comparable to normal thousand-foot-long carriers, thanks to being built with lighter, stronger materials), and the racetrack and stadium built atop it weighing in at about 10,000, this nearly 200,000 ton sailing vessel is a force to be reckoned with. Called the Double-carrier Racetrack, this ship passes through the four-stories-deep water of Inisfree’s main lake with little room to spare, but is Repulsine assisted, making its programmed circular route (~1 mile long, in a loop, with a diameter of just under 1/3 of a mile) possible and reliable. Due to its design and low speed, paired with the Repulsine-assisted racing vehicles and ‘smart’-surface of the racetrack, racers do not have to compensate for the gravitational fluctuations otherwise felt due to choppy waters or changes in acceleration of the parent construct.

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Racecars:

NASCAR stock cars, as well as Formula 1, Baja off-road racing trucks, and a variety of other race-worthy vehicles are all seen from time to time on this special, elevated, floating racetrack. The track is easily converted back and forth between each of their needs. Sometimes it will have a normal flat racetrack, and other times it will have “rugged terrain” simulating obstacles and jump-ramps.

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Lodging:

Guests of these races typically fly in by way of their Owls (hover-saddles) or other small, personal aircraft, parking them in the parking spaces (more like landing pads for helicopters) which are all surrounded by landscaping and waterworks, such as small fountains from statues and flower pots. Instead of stadium seating, guests are then helped to find their assigned convertible canopy bed (the canopy is retractable when shade from the Sun isn’t desired), and may also make use of the many VIP boxes which come complete with automatically shading window-walls. Guests staying overnight may use those VIP boxes as their hotel suites, but may also make use of the dozens of group berthings and hundreds of single and double-bed rooms below the flight / racetrack / topside deck.

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Racing Types:

Several different kinds of vehicles, thus multiple types of races, are hosted here.

Formula 1 (the jet-like low-riding racecars)
Motorcycles (street bikes)
NASCAR (best stock cars)
Stock Cars (general/average)
Tokyo Drift (street racers; mixed/custom)

More TBA…

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2021 Update:

Latest features now include:

seating for ~250,000 human-sized spectators (as well as hotel suites for all of them)
normal races, as well as practice drives/laps, are hosted here
more than a dozen races here per year (and that’s just of the racecars)
numerous restaurants lining the under-stands/seating walkways/halls
numerous ‘toilet-rooms’ (what we call bathrooms in Inisfree)
‘Firetanks‘ on standby in the middle of the track/field (with our naked ICV firefighter girls, of course)
ATC towers guide/tractor-beam in all personal aircraft/seacraft
–2024 April note: This vessel has 5 of these towers; 1 at each corner for navigation and assistance, and the 5th in the stadium (to help keep the race/s safe)
small-yacht and mini-submarine bays along the sides of the hull at lake-level
fireworks and laser-light shows at times
street-racers welcome to practice here outside normal race times
ICVs always drive/race naked, as they are indestructible anyway

The original form of this racetrack was much smaller; it was atop two normal-sized abandoned/decommissioned/scrapped carriers we had taken from the Outlands, thus its racetrack/stadium was only 1,092′ (the ‘length’ (depth) of a carrier) x 512′ (the width of these two carriers side-by-side). That’s ~4.8 times shorter than the ‘length’, and ~4.9 times shorter than the width, of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, resulting in a racetrack that was not the inspiration’s 2.5 miles long, but only ~half a mile long. After hosting numerous successful ICV-drivers races on that, we decided it had been our prototype for what we started building much better/bigger this year.

Because a normal aircraft carrier is only ~1,000′ long, in order to fit a racetrack on these two joined carriers that is comparable to the mile-long and half-mile wide Indianapolis Motor Speedway, much larger versions of aircraft carriers had to be built. We coordinated a big group of our ICVs to 3D-print components for, and then assemble, this current version of our famous floating racetrack, both catamaran halves (oversized carriers) of which measure ~5 times a normal carrier’s length, and ~5 times their width (thus now each is ~5,300′ ‘long’ (deep) and ~1,260′ wide; this platform for our floating racetrack spans 5,300′ x 2,500′; 13,250,000 square feet across its joined/joint flight-deck –which is now a race-deck, not a flight-deck). The result worked perfectly, and now has the same size/length racetrack on it as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but is so big that it no longer sails in a slow circle around the Venetian Lake Apartments, as it cannot fit between them and our main lake’s beaches/shoreline, so we keep it floating in place near the wet sands where our ColonyPods do their practice landings, still keeping half a mile of our main lake’s waters open for any swimming or sailing use between this racetrack’s side and where the Governor’s Mansion‘s cliff waterfall stream delta fans out into this lake.

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