Yeehaw should change venue (Page 1 of 2)

+1 for TWS would be wayyyyyyyyyyyyy fun.

Exactly....

I like the MSR track and people - always a good race, but a good alternate track with elevation changes and still in the central Texas area would be the new track in San Marcos - Harris Hill Road. http://www.harrishillroad.com/

The 2.9mi. course does not have any banking or walls. Well the front straight is a little banked but that doesn't count. You would have to be way out of control to hit a wall at TWS. Not that it can't happen, I've seen it happen twice. Both times it was at the exit of turn 15 on to the front straight.

I doubt that Lemons will go to TWS. They have a history with MSRH and if Misty hasn't been able to get them go run TWS by now, it's probably not gonna happen.

MSR doesn't have a lot of paddock space. Track is nice, however its booked mostly by club DEs etc. Several years ago (early 2000s) the track owner bragged that the first open date was 3 years in the future.

Wouldn't mind going there as I've probably got more laps there than I do at ECR and MSR is less of a HP track than ECR.

I suspect Lemons will be at ECR as long as they want to be. David and Linda Cook (the owners) are hooked.

Other tracks in this part of the country that Lemons could go to are TMS (which is fast with lots of walls), Hallett in Oklahoma (1.7 very technical), Memphis Motorsports Park and Heartland Park Topeka. Chumpcar is having/had events TMS and Hallett.

I guess my point was: we have options for tracks. There is no reason to run the same track twice in 1 year.

I would (and have) go to CMP everytime they hold a race there.  The track is nice but the facilities are great.

I'd be all for adding a race or bumping one of the NO or Angleton races to MSR in Cresson. Although I'd love to run the full 3.1 course, that high speed downhill section out by the highway would probably be a non-starter for Lemons. But even the shorter course is fun and has some great elevation changes. Not as dramatic as ECR, but still fun. There would be plenty of paddock space at MSR if you used that enormous skidpad and grid area for paddock too. It would be at least big enough for an 80 car field.

Jay's said in the past (Yahoo group?) that they've considered Hallet in the past but that the big problem there is that all the track infrastructure is on the infield but there's no infield access while cars are on the track. You can't shut down an endurance race every hour or two so that folks can get in and out.

I think two races a year at MSRH is great. Rather than take one away, just add another race to the schedule for TWS.  I wouldn't mind another in the Gulf coast area.

The distance from north texas to NPR is a big factor, along with the track surface iteslf. We have to plan three days off work, and a new set of tires for NPR. I like the track, but anything short of a brand new set of tires wont cut it for that surface, it is just too abrasive. We have run several races at MSR and ECR and dont run through tires in 4 races that we do one at NPR. All in all, it makes that race a lot more costly than any of the other gulf coast events.

I think putting NPR on the radar of interest for anyone in Texas is kinda odd.

From Houston, with truck/trailer, its an honest 4-5 hours down i10 then thru a bunch of little odd backroads between crappy towns that are somehow still segregated.  I used to make that drive a lot back in the day, and it totally sucks with a truck/trailer.  Anyone outside of Houston its even longer.

TWS is centrally located, is seriously 10 minutes outside of College Station, which has more than enough hotels/stuff to support A&M, plus BCS is just awesome.  The paddock space is HUGE, its a legit racetrack.

Seriously, lets go.