2011 New Racetrack Wish List (Page 6 of 6)

my wish list is based on less towing of the car.
Watkins Glen
Nelson Ledges
BeaveRun
Mosport

I would love to try a dirt race. Kind of like on a rally cross track. I know our team could get 2 cars filled with drivers for something like that

well, being a newby, why don't all y'all come to the racing capitolf the world (Indy) and we'll do a biggie at ORP on the 2 1/2 mile road course!  Great facility, good food and Indy loves racers!  All the legends have run there...Foyt, Andretti, Unsers', Rutherford etc., etc.

I'd love to run at IRP (ORP -- can't get used to that). I fondly recall when Jaguar ran that XJ220-only race series there and Rutherford and Sneva those guys kept bending the expensive bodies since they were racing closed-wheel cars and they could (yeah, I grew up in Indy)

These guys wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they raced at a track with such easy access to racing parts shops. Break something and actually have someplace nearby that could supply you with a replacement Heim joint? Apostasy!

Seriously, racing at IRP would rock. We could do a Lemons triathalon. 8 hours on Saturday on the road course. Then turn on the lights on the oval track and do a series of 30 or 40 lap circle track races with cars grouped by class/alleged horsepower/weight. Then on Sunday morning, bracket races followed by a 3-hour road race finale for the cars that have survived all the different abuse. Lots more trophies for everyone (drags winner, circle track features winners, overall/combined, etc.) and more opportunities for mechanical mayhem.

Think that would be fun?

MMP would be great except that with all of the offs our cars produce, nobody would ever be able to see where they are supposed to drive due to all the freaking dusty desert right next to the track. Have you noticed how they've covered the apex armco with freaking vertical dont-hit-me plastic things (like HOV dividers) to keep drivers from dropping a wheel on the inside of turns? Crazy.

You'd think our fabulous economy here (!) would be incentive enough to get them to (ahem) allow us to race there, but no.....
and shhhhh, don't tell anyone about the new Epic Brewing Co. just down the street!

Road Atlanta.

Lemons is about as wholesome as it gets in racing! I'd love to live and work in a world like a Lemons pit.... Don't know about current trends, but when I started short track in "pure stock" an on-track incident would often result in a fistfight in the pits, with much ungentlemanly language. Didn't see much helmet-throwing, mainly because it cost 30 bucks and if you cracked it, you'd have to Bondo/paint it to pass inspection next week. Drop-kicking a guy into the wall could result in a BF, unless you were popular, in the points chase, or had a cousin working in the hot dog stand, in which case you'd get sent to the back for the restart. The good old days? It's better now. Any sensible community should welcome this series.

Definitely Road Atlanta or Roebling Road Raceway, a private, rentable track in Savannah, GA

But really, just get a race in Georgia!! All the major interstates pass through Atlanta, and who doesn't love a Georgia Peach?

edit: track map of Roebling http://www.roeblingroad.com/trackmap.html

NJMP, NJMP, NJMP!  We're a new team, looking for a track close to Delaware (yes, Delaware) to attempt our first dabocle at!  Got a pair of '89 T-birds lined up, just waiting on the schedule to come out.