Topic: Pipe Dream! Lemons at Laguna Seca?
i would drag our POS car half way across the country to race there. Anyone else?
Nick, Get Jay on that for us please.
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what would be the over/under on the number of cars that fly off through the corkscrew?
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eljefe17 wrote:
what would be the over/under on the number of cars that fly off through the corkscrew?
What is 100% Alex.
I'll take "corkscrews of death" for $400 please.
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weaksauce wrote:
I'll take "corkscrews of death" for $400 please.
Wouldn't that be for $500 (or more if you properly bribed the judges)?
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Jeff G 78 wrote:
weaksauce wrote:I'll take "corkscrews of death" for $400 please.
Wouldn't that be for $500 (or more if you properly bribed the judges)?
point taken
Seriously though. i would cut off one of my team mates nuts to race there. ( I can think of one or two who shouldn't reproduce anyways...)
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for that, i would participate.
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jerjozwik wrote:
for that, i would participate.
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I wouldn't hold my breath on this. I was watching something on SpeedTV last weekend talking about the upcoming MotoGP and AMA motorcycle races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The guy was interviewing the executive director and she was saying that because Laguna Seca is owned by some county in California and is located entirely inside a county park (or state park?), they have very heavy restrictions on the number of race dates and events that they can hold; for now, they can only hold something like 5 or 6 big race weekends a year. Does Lemons count as a big race weekend or is it something more akin to a local event in their eyes? Who knows. Plus it looks like with the Skip Barber school out there and other stuff, their schedule is pretty packed.
Then again, maybe the Concours d'Lemons will turn all those Monterey folks around and they'll decide that we should run alongside the Rolex Historics. 
It would be awfully cool to run the Lemons cars on the corkscrew.
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eljefe17 wrote:
what would be the over/under on the number of cars that fly off through the corkscrew?
The corkscrew's actually pretty slow. It's the five furiously fast turns immediately AFTER the Corkscrew (and especially the insane left harder before the front straight) that will slaughter half the field within hour one.
Obviously, we're pushing hard for Laguna Seca.
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Re: Pipe Dream! Lemons at Laguna Seca?
I'm ready. Lemons has already exceeded all reasonable expectations by running full roadrace courses at real race speeds. Why not throw in an event at a world famous race course to round it off?
What a great race series this Lemons thing is. Yay Jay.
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Not while they have a strictly enforced 92db sound limit. Plus its features some very fast turns (1, 6, 9) which would be difficult to Lemons proof.
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Most LeMonsters are way under 92db. I know the Gnome is.
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rnr wrote:
Plus its features some very fast turns (1, 6, 9) which would be difficult to Lemons proof.
The first time I drove Laguna, six was the most intimidating. I was thinking, "man, you could really bust your ass here...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NshkPXziuac
Walls+speed+the occasional well-placed bump makes Laguna a tricky one for Lemons. Sears Point is probably more realistic.
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Corkscrew is easy...but the gravel just offline is deep.
Turns 6 and 9 are the scary fast corners.
Steve
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Nick_LeMonsHQ wrote:
rnr wrote:Plus its features some very fast turns (1, 6, 9) which would be difficult to Lemons proof.
The first time I drove Laguna, six was the most intimidating. I was thinking, "man, you could really bust your ass here...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NshkPXziuac
Walls+speed+the occasional well-placed bump makes Laguna a tricky one for Lemons. Sears Point is probably more realistic.
It would make for a good Johnny Cash-themed car though. It would have to be all-black classic Detroit iron, which would make it inevitable that it would say...
"Hello, Walls."
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If only that was a Johnny Cash song. Google told me it's Faron Young, but I knew it's not Johnny Cash.
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To me, Infineon is much uglier because there are far more walls you can reach with a lot of speed. At Laguna, at least, the walls are a bit farther away and there's gravel which can hopefully suck you in. The trouble is, at Laguna, that if you get just a couple of feet off track the gravel ALSO sucks you in and you have to be towed out. I've literally had my front wheels on asphalt and needed a tow before because the rear of the car was bogged down in gravel.
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SteveLevin wrote:
To me, Infineon is much uglier because there are far more walls you can reach with a lot of speed. At Laguna, at least, the walls are a bit farther away and there's gravel which can hopefully suck you in. The trouble is, at Laguna, that if you get just a couple of feet off track the gravel ALSO sucks you in and you have to be towed out. I've literally had my front wheels on asphalt and needed a tow before because the rear of the car was bogged down in gravel.
Steve
but man would it be fun!
Nick, are you guys looking to expand the number of tracks/events a year, or is what you currently have going the ideal setup for you guys?
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weaksauce wrote:
Nick, are you guys looking to expand the number of tracks/events a year, or is what you currently have going the ideal setup for you guys?
There's a pretty good chance we'll expand a bit more in 2010. Stay tuned!
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Just what a junkie needs, more juice. Please please please bring a race to North Texas! MotorSport Ranch Cresson or Eagle's Canyon would both be great. Please, pretty please, with sugar on top.
But not in June/July/August. It's brutal out there right now.
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I think we need to have the race on city streets. Put out some cones, some hay bales: ready to go!
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MurileeMartin wrote:
I think we need to have the race on city streets. Put out some cones, some hay bales: ready to go!
They close the streets of Manhattan for bikes (Five Boro Bike Tour), so why not crapheaps:
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Mosport Park, Toronto.....great history and you haven't lived until you've tried Turn Two. Not busy these days either. Stirling Moss co-designed the course with Fifties-era Brit sports cars in mind, so it's a natural. Need a chicane in the Andretti Straight though. Ask Manfred Winkelhock.
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Ever considered Texas World Speedway near College Station, TX? It actually has quite a history, and it's closer to DFW than Angleton. (Not meant in any way to disparage Angleton, they're about equidistant from me)