Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-23.250.120.172-20170308204911/@comment-75.112.134.14-20170309152457

ME7 wrote: ... I remember a Bugatti being tested on some super long VW track that perfectly matched the curvature of the earth and had very highly banked corners... It's not that the track matches the curvature of the earth...it's that the straight is so long, one cannot see the other side due to the curvature of the earth.

Info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehra-Lessien

Link to view it in Google Earth if you have it installed: http://googlesightseeing.com/gearth/super-secret-volkswagen-test-track.kml

Or, on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ehra-Lessien,+Germany/@52.6146037,10.7606201,7970m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47afbf8cc4753523:0x425ac6d94ac3b50!8m2!3d52.5688508!4d10.7874642