more northeast races? (Page 1 of 4)

NJ is crusty and smelly enough without a horde of crapcans spewing dinosaur filth into the air and expelling motor squeezings onto the ground.

A Lemons de Jersey would be fantastic down at NJMP.

We might make NJ cleaner... (I live in PA...gotta keep the rivalry going).

I forgot the Glen!!! Not that they'd let our jalopnick's soil their blue Armco...but just a thought. 

By all means don't take shenandoah off, that was a great course... I just thought that the series might be able to support a spring or fall event as well

Shenandoah was awesome.  It would be nice to have an event that isnt 6+ hours away.

While we are talking about new events I would love to see putnam park on the schedule!

Our team put a bug in Jay's ear about Loudon (NHMS). It has a bunch of things going for it:
1) Location: attracts drivers from the northeast and from eastern Canada.
2) Facility: good enough for NASCAR. A/C restaurant, bathrooms, control room, media center, and classrooms.
3) Flaggers: first class SCCA-trained professional flaggers. They know their stuff and pay attention.
4) Tow and EMS are first rate. Fast and efficient.
5) Tons of paddock space, including 4 garages, each holding 20+ cars.
6) Gas on premises and commercial gas right out side the gate.
7) Tons of eateries and lodging 15 minutes away in Concord, MA
8) Great road course. Relatively low speed without being an autocross. Good barriers. Some run-off in spots (better than Summit Pt, although that's not saying much).

Unfortunately dates are hard to come by, especially weekend dates. And IRL is going to run there next year, too.

I haven't been to NJMP, but it seems ideal. Monticello would be awesome if they would have a motley bunch like us. A chicane would probably be needed on the really long straight to keep speeds down.

The Glen is pretty darn fast for Lemons

I dont think I will run a chump car race. It sounds alittle shaky at best?

While I haven't run a ChumpCar race yet, from everything I have read, they are run very well and most people would return.  There are quite a few race both Lemons and ChumpCar.  I haven't heard anybody bad mouth them after running an event.

Monticello does have a paved chicane on the long straight that could be used.  Lightning at NJMP is FAST like Nelson Ledges.  Thunderbolt at NJMP is a little longer and slower  with a chicane that by-passes the fast T3.  Both are VERY expensive to rent.

and will will bring two MR2s and 8 drivers!
Now a true 24 at Summit would be freaking awesome...

I just said that to rattle feathers...

I sent Jay an e-mail earlier today asking about more northeast Lemons for 2011.

His response:

Watkins and Lime Rock are non-starters, I'm afraid--both are too fast 
overall for Lemons, and Lime Rock has the no-Sunday-racing restriction 
to boot. But I'm thinking about checking out Loudon for next year, and 
we'd like to do Thunderbolt if we can get the dates there. Hope that 
helps--Best, J

On Jun 22, 2010, at 2:08 PM, macmatz@frontiernet.net wrote:

> Jay,
> What are the chances we could see a few more northeast events for 
> next season ? We would like to attend more Lemons events, but are 
> 6.5 hours from the closest locations (Summit Point & Stafford). Any 
> chance we could see something at Watkins Glen or Lime Rock ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Zollweg
> Team Captain - Baghdad Taxi

i am in for New Jersey!!!

where is that?

are you kidding? they run formula cars and "Motorcycles" on that track!