| Author |
Message |
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator
Username: Rob328gts
Post Number: 1538
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, May 06, 2002 - 8:54 am: | |
I'll just rank the tracks I've actually driven...
1) Hallett at Hallett, Oklahoma
2) Texas World Speedway 2.9 at College Station, TX
3) Heartland Park at Topeka, KS
4) Motor Sports Ranch at Fort Worth, TX
5) Texas Motor Speedway at Fort Worth, TX
On my to do list...
1) Laguna Seca
2) Road Atlanta
3) Sebring
4) Limerock
5) Road America
6) Sears Point
7) Mosport |
Oliver Cagle (Ocagle)
New member
Username: Ocagle
Post Number: 21
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 7:34 pm: | |
Riverside International Raceway. Now a shopping mall in Riverside California. |
Scott A. B. Collins (Scott)
Junior Member
Username: Scott
Post Number: 51
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 6:49 pm: | |
Driven on Texas World Speedway, Portland International Raceway, Bremerton Raceway, and Seattle International Raceway (now Pacific Raceways).
SIR gets my vote for turns 3A/3B--two linked downhill hairpins. |
Hubert Otlik (Hugh)
Junior Member
Username: Hugh
Post Number: 84
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 6:28 pm: | |
Sears Point gets my vote. |
BobD (Bobd)
Member
Username: Bobd
Post Number: 407
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 5:44 pm: | |
Laguna Seca. Corkscrew. |
Tim N (Timn88)
Member
Username: Timn88
Post Number: 868
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 5:34 pm: | |
Most fun "race track" was the autocross course today. Really tight and in a rwd high HP camaro, you spend more time sideways than not. |
Modified348ts (Modman)
Junior Member
Username: Modman
Post Number: 169
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 3:21 pm: | |
Willows, Ca
Thunderhill.....
Peter Sodurlund, I can see what you are saying about the Diablos getting eaten on handling. My 348 outhandles my Diablo. The Diablo's steering is not as responsive and a little slow trying to make the heavy rear end respond but the straightaway it does great but to me is nothing. If you are doing over a 100mph on a 45mph turn it gets freaky holding the wheel steady, you have to shake the wheel and fight through the turns just to feel the car weight shifting. |
Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member
Username: Gilles27
Post Number: 248
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 10:22 am: | |
Art, that's awesome! I hope you have a copy of that video somewhere.
Jon--only 2 laps in a BMW?! That's pretty good. Hope to do that next time I'm in Germany. Although, some of those Alpine roads would qualify as a world class track. |
Jon P. Kofod (95f355c)
Junior Member
Username: 95f355c
Post Number: 146
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 8:46 am: | |
In order of preference:
1) Nurburgring (ok, so it was only two laps in a BMW 520i, but that is one awesome track)
2) Watkins Glen
3) Mid-Ohio
4) Lime Rock
5) Virginia International Raceway
6) Summit Point Raceway
Still to be done: Laguna, Daytona, Road Atlanta, Texa Motor Speedway
Regards,
Jon P. Kofod
|
Peter S�derlund /328 GTB -88 (Corsa)
Junior Member
Username: Corsa
Post Number: 174
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 5:24 am: | |
In Sweden.
Mantorp Park
Sviesta
Kinnekulle Ring
Ring Knutstorp
Midlanda
Geller�sen
Anderstorp (short)
Favorite: Knutstorp as beeing the "mini-ring" and Kinnekulle as beeing the handling-track, no power just pure handling. Diablos are frequently humiliated by 160 hp Alfas from the sixtes.
Ciao
Peter |
arthur chambers (Art355)
Member
Username: Art355
Post Number: 408
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 8:21 pm: | |
Jack;
I've been both. Usually a monkey. At Riverside one year, we switched, going down the back straightaway. The AMA officials tried to give us some ••••, for switching at 120 +, but since the rulebook didn't say it wasn't allowed they couldn't do anything about it. ABC got it on tape and I think they showed it once, maybe twice on the show, when it finally aired. Everyone thought we were crazy, but it seemed the right thing to do at the time. |
Tenney (Tenney)
Junior Member
Username: Tenney
Post Number: 114
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 7:56 pm: | |
It may take some fairly tall gearing (and at least 125cc?) to make much sense of a kart at Road America (fav. track, btw). There are a couple of way-long straights. Might even run out of motor through the kink with the sort of gearing one tends to run on a tighter and more technical kart-specific circuit. Properly dialed, sounds super fun.
Favorite track ridden would be the long-defunct Turtle Park in Elkhorn, WI. |
Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member
Username: Gilles27
Post Number: 245
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 5:44 pm: | |
Hey Art, with a sidecar? Were you the driver, or the monkey? |
Charles Gault (Knox_charles)
Junior Member
Username: Knox_charles
Post Number: 52
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 4:43 pm: | |
I've raced at:
Road Atlanta (all three versions, original dip, raised dip and now)
Roebling Road
Rockingham
Charlotte
Memphis
Carolinas Motorsport Park
Sebring
Mid Ohio
Virgina International Raceway
I like all of them except Memphis and Rockingham, but my twin favorites are Road Atlanta and VIR |
Lawrence Coppari (Lawrence)
New member
Username: Lawrence
Post Number: 15
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 11:13 am: | |
Guess I like Road Atlanta best even with the big change of doing away with the dip. You're surrounded by concrete now so any indiscretion damages the car. Other tracks I have spent time on are VIR, Roebling, Summit Point, CMP.
|
Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Junior Member
Username: Wsawyer
Post Number: 142
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 10:41 am: | |
I heard that someone wrote of an F50 against that wall in Road Atlanta in March. Can anyone confirm that? |
Terry Springer (Tspringer)
New member
Username: Tspringer
Post Number: 44
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 10:38 am: | |
Have driven: Road Atlanta, Roebling Road, Carolina Motorsport Park.
Favorite: Carolina Motorsport!
Carolina is fast, tricky and the bump at the apex on the kink is all BALLS! Working up to taking the kink flat in my 993 reminded me of "The Dip" at Road Atlanta before they emasculated it.
Road Atlanta used to be a really fun track. I guess it still is, but I liked the dip. Also, the new "safty" concrete walls running along the entire outside of the track REALLY suck. With the new changes, if you go off at all odds are your going to trash some machinery. I think Panoz and crew really blew it when designing the track changes. They could have put in more gravel traps and runoff areas but instead went with concrete retaining walls. Really sucks.
Terry |
arthur chambers (Art355)
Member
Username: Art355
Post Number: 407
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 10:04 am: | |
Driven? Rode:
Daytona, Laguna Seca, Riverside, Ontario, Fontana, Poertland, Orange County Speedway, Sears Point, Isle of Man, Imola, Steamboat Springs Road Course, Pikes Peak, etc.
Favorite:
Daytona with the bump in turn 4 leading onto the front straightaway.
Scarriest: Isle of Man, Bray Hill has iron picket fences on either side, speed over 150 mph, and the hill drops off so you wheelie all the way down to the right hander at the bottom. Not much fun on a solo bike, great on a sidecar. |
Marq J Ruben (Qferrari)
New member
Username: Qferrari
Post Number: 27
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 8:49 am: | |
Silverstone (UK)
Oulton Park (UK)
Summit Point (both tracks)
Indianapolis (for 1 lap only)
Zolder (Holland)
Favorite: Silverstone, in a TVR Griffith
|
Edward Gault (Irfgt)
Intermediate Member
Username: Irfgt
Post Number: 1304
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 8:36 am: | |
Talledega! I once drove my Corvair in a pre-race parade there and was supposed to drive around the apron. NOT! I lagged back and took a run up the banking and slid sideways back down. Bobby Allison won that race in a Matador. There are also some Rednecks in the infield at Talledega. I thought I was one until I met them. I'm not even close. |
Bob Campen (Bob308gts)
Junior Member
Username: Bob308gts
Post Number: 172
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 8:32 am: | |
I drove at Meadowdale ( short course ) in an endurance kart right before they took the Monza wall out, on a kart that was very interesting. Also Blackhawk in my Alfa days. |
Greg Owens (Owens84qv)
Member
Username: Owens84qv
Post Number: 354
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2002 - 8:30 am: | |
Virginia International Raceway! |
Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member
Username: Gilles27
Post Number: 243
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 11:16 pm: | |
Wow! That will be a trip powering up the straight on just a kart! Let me know. I live in Downtown Chicago, and one of my best friends lives just up the road from the track. We were just talking about some outings to RA. Good opportunity to get out on the road. If you want to email me, it's on my bio. |
Marcus Adolfsson (Marcusadolfsson)
Junior Member
Username: Marcusadolfsson
Post Number: 71
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 11:16 pm: | |
List:
Sebring (complete track)
Favorite:
Sebring
Hm... I need to get onto more tracks. |
Cmparrf40 (Cmparrf40)
Junior Member
Username: Cmparrf40
Post Number: 217
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 11:14 pm: | |
I was told the long track! KART sanctioned race, are you close Road America? I understand over 1,200 karts will be there. I will get you the dates, early June, I believe. Chris |
Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member
Username: Gilles27
Post Number: 240
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 11:09 pm: | |
Chris, is that a school, or is it a private deal? That sounds like a gas. You'll probably drive the short track, like in Skip Barber. Essentially, they eliminate the main straight. When in June? |
Cmparrf40 (Cmparrf40)
Junior Member
Username: Cmparrf40
Post Number: 215
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 11:02 pm: | |
Jack, I am going to Road America in June, I am really looking forward to it. Not driving a Ferrari though, shifter karts, should be fun... Chris |
Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member
Username: Gilles27
Post Number: 238
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 10:57 pm: | |
Road America |
Cmparrf40 (Cmparrf40)
Junior Member
Username: Cmparrf40
Post Number: 214
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 10:49 pm: | |
With so many people with track experience, I thought it might be fun to hear what tracks you have driven and your favorite.
Mid-Ohio
Sebring
Moroso
Gateway International
Hallet
Texas Motor Sport Ranch
Pikes Peak International
Kansas Speedway
Texas World
Favorite? Laguna Seca
OK Art, Tim, Rob and everyone else, lets see your lists, I know they will be impressive! |