King's Lynn Shows What Could Be Possible In Assetto Corsa

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The Toyota MkII saloon is fantastic fun to throw sideways on the dirt and the tarmac.
If you are not from the shores of the land of tea and biscuits, then you most likely have never heard of the Adrian Flux Arena in King's Lynn, England. The track is a short dirt oval with a tarmac drift track located in the centre, and you can now drift on the dirt or the tarmac in Assetto Corsa.

Located at the top of Norfolk, on the east coast of England, the Adrian Flux Area is a banger racing dirt oval first and foremost. So, seeing it in our Assetto Corsa downloads section certainly excited the British contingent of the OverTake team.

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Night or day, the action continues at Kings Lynn.

Initially opened in 1951, King's Lynn or the Adrian Flux Arena as it is now known, has been putting on racing packages and programs for years. Everything from banger racing to national hot rods and drifting has competed here. Hence, the history of the track runs through British motorsport history alongside similar tracks like the legendary Arena Essex and Wimbledon that are sadly no longer with us.


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The Toyota AE86 is great on the small dirt oval and even smaller tarmac drift course

This version of the Adrian Flux arena focuses on the drift track, but there is potential for dirt oval racing in the future, whether that be stock cars, banger racing, or dirtbikes. Assetto Corsa has an endlessly deep pool of creative modders; this circuit is a great example.

Drifting on dirt and tarmac.​

This track version is meant to be about the drift track in the middle of the dirt oval, but we found that the dirt oval is just as fun to drift and drive around as the track in the middle! The tarmac track is used for drift practice days, and it is a fantastic and cheap way to use your drift car legally without the competitive atmosphere of structured events.

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Ripping your car sideways on the dirt is just as fun as on the tarmac.

The mod is well crafted, albeit a work in progress, with aspects like collision physics on the tractor tyres missing. However, looking past those teething problems, this famous and essential circuit to UK grassroots motorsport culture is finally available to drive in a simulator! This track is the first for creator SupaSteeze, so could other drifting venues be on the horizon?

A fantastic drone-style video documenting the community opening night for this mod!

The default practice position starting point is an interesting and unique feature of the King's Lynn track mod. In classic British motorsport style, you begin your run on the back of a trailer next to a Ford Transit van. This quirky feature adds some character to the tracks and the mod, with each registered pit box having its own van and trailer.

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Some cars spawn sideways on the trailer, so be aware that you might have to work your way off it!

Overall, this mod is a fantastic recreation of the Adrian Flux Arena in King's Lynn, a simple but fun circuit with plenty of short dirt oval racing potential alongside the drifting!

Have you ever heard of the Adrian Flux Arena in King's Lynn? In the comments below, let us know if you have any experiences with the circuit!
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Absolutley disgusted there is no mention of Kings Lynners George Russell or Martin Brundle in this article.:)
 
The mod is well crafted, albeit a work in progress, with aspects like collision physics on the tractor tyres missing. However, looking past those teething problems...

Based on these screenshots, that is certainly a precise assessment...

All the success and learning and fun for the creator, thank you for sharing your project with us. I wish you the best. And I will make sure to test it at a more mature state.

However, OverTake, are we sure that content like this is appropriate for a front page thread? You are getting a lot of feedback for the quality and amount of articles posted already... Don't get me wrong, I don't think highlighting creators on this site is wrong, but back then it used to be creators with legendary statuses who provided a lot of exceptional quality content, not... first WIP projects. Just sayin'. If you don't agree, it's your site, do what you do, just providing feedback...
 
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Don't get me wrong, I don't think highlighting creators on this site is wrong, but back then it used to be creators with legendary statuses who provided a lot of exceptional quality content,
It would also be nice if some fantastic content creators in other games occasionally got a mention.
No one's denying that the majority of mods on here are AC related, but when a sub par AC IOM (I don't mean any offence to the creator) takes precedence over the amazing GPL one by Jim Pearson and it's conversion to rF2. GTR233's Anniversary Patch for GTR2, AndreasFSC's brilliant Super Tourers mod on Race07 emulating the original Toca games to name but 3, there's so many other superb modders working on other games on here, shining a little light in their direction would be nice.
 
"Have you ever heard of the Adrian Flux Arena in King's Lynn? In the comments below, let us know if you have any experiences with the circuit"
I most certainly have, its my local track just 9 miles up the road from me and I've been there for the drifting and also other events over the years!

Thank you so much to @SupaSteeze for doing this you've made my day!
Here is a video including real life footage of the track from my experience there and your mod. I've also posted it on The Norfolk Arena Drift Team Fan page on Facebook, as im sure they will be thrilled to see your work!

Theres also some info on getting involved there if folks wanna check it out IRL. Its only about £60 to enter your car for the whole day! Also totally free to spectate!

Once again thank you @SupaSteeze, well done, you've made a little Lynn Boi very happy! Cheers!

 
Oh my, I've just got on my PC, seen @tarmac Terrorists video and realized you guys had written an article on my track. I am in awe haha.

I'd just like to say thank you for your kind words, constructive criticism and the feature and article of my track! It really means a lot and should give me the push I need to get the Diemax(Drift comp @ AFA) layout out in the next month or so! ;)

The credit for the idea of putting cars on trailers really goes to a friend of mine Kizza, who also drifts at AFA IRL. So big thanks to him for the cool idea there. 😎

I do apologize for the lack of collisions on the props on the infield - The reason for this was that the track was never actually planned to go public; It was originally designed as a "tool" for me and my 10 year old son to get to grips on his sim, at Lynn, with the intentions of it translating to real life in the near future since Lynn is also pretty local to us.
After a friend put up a few screenshots of it in the NADT Facebook page, it was apparent that people wanted it and were excited for it and I felt I had to tart it up a little and push for a public release.

I will agree there are a few small things I too would like to change, fix, add etc and will see what I can do in the next update of the track when I release of the Diemax layout 🙌
Also, regarding the bug of cars appearing sideways on trailers; If you could reach out to me with what cars do it, so I could test the cause of it and try to narrow it down, that would be great!

And for anyone wishing to follow my track making you can find me on YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@supa_steeze or via my AC Community, Wall Runners @ https://wallrunners.uk
(Hope that's okay to put here)

Thank you, Steeze!
 

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