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Randy (Schatten)
Member
Username: Schatten
Post Number: 560
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 7:34 pm: | |
I've driven it before. Its VERY hard on the right front tire. Its something like 7 lefts and 2 rights if I recall correctly. Go there only if you want to EAT TIRE away on some old rubber, otherwise, don't bother going with street tires or tires you favor.
If you go there, event coordinators shouldn't allow more than 3 or 4 cars out there at a time. No flag people are really necessary - its quite small and open. There are no tricks to the track, so if you run off, you just run off into less desired concrete, nothing really that detrimental. There are no facilities there, its just some concrete slab, with some more concrete laying out a road course, entirely _f_l_a_t_.
The course is fun, and especially if you love to drift around corners, and novices will even enjoy it. But for an event, anything more than 20 bucks (which is what I paid or something just shy of that), I'm not sure it would be worth it. And btw, that was for a day, out with the Supra Group as many times as I wanted to go. |
Sean Ruckel (Sruckel)
Junior Member
Username: Sruckel
Post Number: 135
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 4:34 pm: | |
Ah, yes, it helps if I continue to read the info on the webpage:
"The site was once a WWII blimp base that featured had an expansive concrete pad. After it was abandoned, oil baron and race team owner John Meacom purchased the property where he built his original offices. Meacom also used the pad to tune and test his many exotic racecars, including three of the five legendary Grand Sport Corvettes.
Bradley has combined his passion with his work by creating Grand Sport Speedway. He paved a 1.1 mile circuit to tune and test his own racing Corvettes. But that wasn't enough. Bradley hired renowned track designer and Speedvision World Challenge Administrator Alan Wilson to design a world-class 2-mile road racing circuit."
I assume it's still being designed and built. |
Sean Ruckel (Sruckel)
Junior Member
Username: Sruckel
Post Number: 134
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 4:30 pm: | |
From the address in Hitchcock, I would guess that this is the old blimp station where the autocrosses are run. I guess someone decided to finally build some road courses around the land. |
William Huber (Solipsist)
Member
Username: Solipsist
Post Number: 573
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 7:44 am: | |
I found this on the SCCA website. It looks like a great place for a club event or a driving school. Has anyone driven there yet?
http://www.grandsportspeedway.com/default.asp |
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