Hello, folks. After seeing the discussion in the Cleveland easter egg thread, I think it would be fun to make a big thread where we can all share and compile all the easter eggs we find, whether small or big. The track devs clearly love their work and love to sprinkle little details in plain sight (banners, screens, statues, trains, messages, etc) and hide bigger ones far away (secret/out of bounds areas, faraway drawings in the out of bounds environment, etc). As such, feel free to post your findings with a video or screenshots and I'll come back to update the main thread as we find secrets. Let the hunt begin! Secrets found: 7 Cleveland Lakefield Lighthouse Tunnel Galeão Airfield Out of Bounds area Road America Freight Train Brasilia Access Roads Termas de Rio Hondo Out of Bounds area Buenos Aires Access Roads VIRginia International Raceway Out of Bounds area Update July '23: There's a fair bit more on each page but I haven't had the time to update this post.
Cleveland contains a massive Easter Egg in the form of a tunnel leading to the lighthouse in the lake, as well as a message congratulating the driver for finding it. Credit to @FS7
Galeão Airport, like Cleveland, has a big open airfield available to explore but it is possible to go out of bounds into a secret explorable area. Credit to @robillard3381
Road America is a track with a different kind of secret. This one is not so much hidden away as much as you need to be in the right place at the right time to see it. That's right, the Road America freight train. It can be seen along the track at various points from The Kink down to Canada Corner. Credit to @Maser V6
In Brasilia you can access the back of the pit area and go out of bounds through a fence onto the parking lot and access roads leading to marshall posts and more. Credit to @robillard3381
Termas de Rio Hondo has an easily accessible out of bounds area that spans almost the entire track surroundings. Some areas are tricky to drive across due to only roads being solid though. The main exit point is seen in the video but using the track access roads leads to other exits you can explore. Credit to @robillard3381
Buenos A Tunnel is not drivable but access to both ends is possible, far side has a hole to end up as a 'sky car' reported in early days as bug beta. some gaps and fences may be amended to impassable and solid objects (lorries and chopper)and buildings have been noted as not solid bugs may be amended
Do you mind making a short video showing how to access this area and edit it in your post above so I can add it to the OP?
VIR circuit Still less impressive than Cleveland tunnels! There are a few driveable roads (not all shown on the video) but nothing very interesting there. You can also go all around the track but mainly on the grass
Nice thread, thanks to everybody that contributed! Also worth mentioning the train passes around every 4 minutes with normal time progression, an easy spot to see it is at turn 11:
What always amaze me is how much of tracks surroundings are modeled (sometimes in great details), with large areas you will almost never see with regular racing. Yes, there's roof cam and replays that may need to see more in the distance, but it seems more extensive than required.
Interlagos Historic has a large infield area with a lake and dirt tracks that can be accessed at approximately the X at T5 below. You can also escape into a narrow band that wraps around the outside of the track at gap somewhere near the X after T2 below (if you go as far outside as the tarmac track, you'll fall into oblivion).
my friend danny found this you can enter open area and tour around circuit CW or CCW CW will be easier.
