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[Vielleicht]

 

Voting begins today for the Autosport Forum 100% Unofficial Formula E Inspired Street Circuit Design Competition!

We have received 16 entries for the competition for layouts in cities all over the world. One week of voting now commences to take us through to the start of pre-season testing. Voting is set to end as the S6 FE cars roll out for pre-season testing on the morning of the 15th October after the final pre season Formula E test session on the 19th October

 

Many of the entries have very detailed descriptions (some of them unmissable) of the layouts, so do be sure to read through the original thread or click on the links under each entry to the original post to see more.

The voting system is based on the well established livery competition held each winter:

Voting Process
- Rank your three favourite circuits in order.
- The favourite receives three points, second favourite will receive two points and third will receive one point.
- You may not vote for your own entry
- Circuit design with the most points will be the winner
- A tie will be broken by the number of first places given (or seconds, or thirds…)
 
So, without further ado (and in alphabetical order of the cities) the entrants are…

1) The Gibraltar ePrix - PayasYouRace

(original post)
 
2) The Halifax ePrix - Ben1445

(original post)
 
3) The Honolulu ePrix - Luca Pacchiarini

(original post)

4) The Imola ePrix - thegamer23

(original post)

5) The Key West ePrix - maximilian

(original post)
 
6) The Lisbon Prix - Vielleicht

(original post)
 
7) The London ePrix (Hyde Park 1) - absinthdude

(original post)

8) The London ePrix (Hyde Park 2) - absinthdude

(original post)
 
9) The Newcastle Upon Tyne ePrix - Alan Lewis

(original post)
 
10) The Nice ePrix - GenJackRipper

(original post)

11) The Nottingham ePrix - Donkey

(original post)

12) The San Sebastian ePrix - lonestarstraits

(original post)

13) The Seattle ePrix - Ben1445

(original post)
 
14) The Stockholm ePrix - FredrikB

(original post)

15) The Tokyo ePrix - OneLapWonder

(original post)

16) The Toronto ePrix - Radoye

(original post)

Edited by Vielleicht, 15 October 2019 - 11:30.

[Ben1445]

Ok, I will put in my vote! 

 

First: San Sebastian

Second: Lisbon

Third: Stockholm 

[Alan Lewis]

1st: Gibraltar
2nd: Key West
3rd: Tokyo

...wish I had more votes...

[PayasYouRace]

This is very hard. The quality of entries is very high.

[Vielleicht]

Indeed I am also struggling to select my favourites

[thegamer23]

First: Lisbon

Second: San Sebastian

Third: Halifax

[Anja]

Not easy to choose as others already pointed out but I guess this is my selection:

 

1. Tokyo

2. Stockholm

3. Gibraltar

[absinthedude]

My this is difficult...every circuit has something going for it. 

 

1. Gibraltar

2. Stockholm

3. Nice

[maximilian]

It's a bit of a dilemma between picking what will race well (apparently) and a great setting.

 

I love the idea of reviving Imola into the international open-wheel spotlight - a great way to bring a historic and relevant venue back - and the track should race well, too. 

 

1. Imola     

 

Love the execution of San Sebastian and Lisbon, they look like they would race well. On pure setting, I gotta give it to San Sebastian, though.

 

2. San Sebastian   

3. Lisbon 

 

Special mention to Nice, I think the idea of alternating with Monaco is brilliant!  I also think Tokyo NEEDS a race!

 

Already have some more "off the wall" ideas for next year's contest, can't wait!!    

[Yoran]

1. Lisbon

2. San Sebastian

3. Gibraltar

[PayasYouRace]

After much thinking, working on many complex spreadsheets, communing with various gods and flipping a bank's worth of coins, my top 3 are:

 

1. Halifax

2. Stockholm

3. Tokyo

 

Thanks to all who took part. Your creations are a joy to behold.

[PayasYouRace]

I’ve pinned the thread so we hopefully get a bit more traffic while the voting is open. We haven’t even had all the entrants cast their votes.

[maximilian]

Maybe we need to get some social media influencers involved... 

[LucaP]

San Sebastoan
Nice
Key West

[Vielleicht]

I think I am going to go with:

 

1) Halifax

2) Imola

3) Newcastle

 

Halifax I think would just be a classic, raw street circuit which has plenty of challenge. Imola becuase I think it would be fun to see and the circuit was originally formed by linking public roads. And I'm saying Newcastle becasue the posts's 'Bob Varsha Commentary Breaks' were, to me, a thing of beauty.

 

A really, realy good set of entries though. My massive thanks to everyone who entered, I love them all.

[FredrikB]

1. San Sebastian
2. Key west
3. Lisbon

[Ben1445]

11 voters so far 

[thegamer23]

Keep the votes coming guys!   

[maximilian]

Given the high quality of the entries, I am thrilled I'm even scratching together a few points!! 

[lonestarstraits]

As others have said, a high quality field to choose from and every circuit has unique features!

 

1. Stockholm

2. Halifax

3. Gibraltar

[Ben1445]

Bit stuck on the voting side of things at the moment 

[PayasYouRace]

I PMed the participants who haven’t voted yet.

[Radoye]

San Sebastian

Nice

Stockholm

[GenJackRipper]

1. Tokyo
2. Gibraltar
3. Stockholm

 

[PiperPa42]

1) (K)e(y)-West ePrix
2) Stockholm
3) Gibraltar

Edited by PiperPa42, 13 October 2019 - 18:17.

[DinocoBlue]

1) Honolulu

2) Stockholm

3) Gibraltar

[Risil]

1. Stockholm

2. Nice

3. Tokyo

[Ben1445]

Would it make more sense to extend the voting through the the end of FE testing rather than ending the moment that the interest generator of testing is beginning? 

[sgtkate]

1. Hyde Park 1

2. Stockholm

3. Tokyo

[PayasYouRace]

Would it make more sense to extend the voting through the the end of FE testing rather than ending the moment that the interest generator of testing is beginning?

That’s up to Vielleicht really. It’s their competition.

[Vielleicht]

Would it make more sense to extend the voting through the the end of FE testing rather than ending the moment that the interest generator of testing is beginning? 

Yeah I think it probably would actually. We've already got one extra post-deadline vote, a few more can only be welcome!

 

I'll do a final count up after the last test session finishes this week.

[sgtkate]

Yeah I think it probably would actually. We've already got one extra post-deadline vote, a few more can only be welcome!

 

I'll do a final count up after the last test session finishes this week.

Oooooops! Sorry....didn't realise I'd missed the deadline. 

[Vielleicht]

Final day for voting! A few more would be nice before final count up

 

Votes placed before the final FE test session ends today will be counted

[Marklar]

1. Stockholm
2. Gibraltar
3. Newcastle

[TomNokoe]

The quality of the entries!!

1. Lisbon

2. Nice
3. Seattle

The Nottingham entry would run literally 5 minutes from my flat

[Vielleicht]

20 Minutes until final voting closes (for good this time    )

 

Edit: I'm calling it here, Im doing the count up now

Edited by Vielleicht, 18 October 2019 - 15:12.

[Ben1445]

*drum roll*

[Vielleicht]

We have a winner...
 
So with 16 entrants and 20 voters, we have a winner of the Inaugural and Unofficial 2019 FE Street Circuit Design Competition 2019.
 
I have counted the votes (which are public so can be checked for yourself if you fancy it) and so without further ado we have:
 
1^st Place - The Stockholm ePrix by FrederikB (24 Points)

 
Congratulations to our first winner, I will refer to the original prize offered in the opening thread of 'the everlasting honour of being called the inaugural winner of the Unofficial Formula E Street Circuit Design Competition! Not much else I’m afraid, other than also probably organising the second edition…'

 

I'm sure that will be suitably life changing!

 

Our other podium finishers were:

 

2^nd Place - The San Sebastian ePrix by lonestarstaits (18 Points)

 

3^rd Place - The Gibralter ePrix by PayasYouRace (15 Points)

 

The remaining entries in finishing order are:

 

4) Lisbon ePrix - Vielleicht

5) Tokyo ePrix - OneLapWonder

6) Halifax ePrix - Ben1445

=) Nice ePrix - GenJackRipper

7) Key West ePrix - maximillian

8) Imola - thegamer23

9) Honalulu - Luca Pacchiarini

=) London ePrix (Hyde Park 1) - absinthedude

10) Newcastle ePrix - Alan Lewis

11) Seattle ePrix - Ben1445

12) London ePrix (Hyde Park 2) - absinthedude

=)  Nottingham ePrix - Donkey

=) Toronto - Radoye

 

 

My personal massive thank you to everyone who entered and voted. Had the idea a while back and wasn't sure how it would be recieved. A few of you encouraged this into existence (you know who you are) and the rest is history. I think the quality of enties has been very high indeed and my only sadness is that the voting process doesn't really reflect that so well. I've said it a few times already that FE really is my favourite series in racing right now. It brings me so much enjoyment and it has been great to share that with others through this competiiton.

 

Cheers.

Edited by Vielleicht, 18 October 2019 - 16:13.

[PayasYouRace]

Worthy winners indeed! Thanks to all who voted for mine.

 

That was a lot of fun. I'll have to start thinking of a location for next year.

[Ben1445]

I'm glad to have picked up a handful of points for mine! Thanks for those who saw merit in my madness 

[thegamer23]

That was great fun, both in creating the tracks & admiring the other people's work.

More of this in the future, great contest Vielleicht!!

And congrats to everyone, a worthy podium i have to say!

Edited by thegamer23, 18 October 2019 - 18:06.

[maximilian]

Well done, congratulations to the winners, and many thanks to Vielleicht for running it!  Have some ideas for next year's already. 

[Ben1445]

Congratulations to our first winner, I will refer to the original prize offered in the opening thread of 'the everlasting honour of being called the inaugural winner of the Unofficial Formula E Street Circuit Design Competition! Not much else I’m afraid, other than also probably organising the second edition…'

 

I'm sure that will be suitably life changing!

 

I think this was my favourite bit 

[Vielleicht]

Honestly, I'm just really glad people would like to have/are planning for next year's edition!

[Alan Lewis]

This has just been a magnificent thread both to take part in and to follow - of course it must happen again next year! Vielleicht for World President, I say.

[maximilian]

Honestly, I'm just really glad people would like to have/are planning for next year's edition!

 

It's a no-brainer!  I foresee a near future where this contest becomes so popular that the winner actually gets their layout implemented as a real ePrix by Formula E as their prize! 

[PiperPa42]

Great work by all participants. I'd still love to see the eWest ePrix though

[Vielleicht]

Well then, one way or another there will be a 2020 edition of the Unofficial FE Street Circuit Design Competition... can't argue with popular demand!

[lonestarstraits]

Well done to the Stockholm ePrix, thrilled with second!

Huge thanks to Vielleicht for running the competition -  I would definitely support a future edition, Can't wait to see what we can come up with after a year of preparation!

Edited by lonestarstraits, 20 October 2019 - 13:07.

[Sterzo]

Rather like Yossarian in Catch 22, I'm proud of playing no part at all in producing these great ideas, and of being too apathetic to vote. Great thread, though. I look forward to the next.