Winter conversation, race tracks I've driven

[Chris Taylor]

Oooh, I might have some of you guys beat if I include the circle tracks.

SCCA:
the Blimp Base in Hitchcock, TX (IIRC .7 mile road course on the pavement of a Blimp Base)
Cabaniss Naval Air Station (Corpus Christi, TX)
Texas World Speedway (both 1.8 and 2.9 configurations)
Motorsports Ranch - Ft. Worth
Texas Motor Speedway
Hallett Motor Racing Circuit
Road Atlanta

Quarter Midgets (tiny ovals):
River City (Austin)
Lone Star (San Antonio)
Oklahoma (OK City)
Topeka ("temporary" parking lot with decambered T1&2... won all the marbles)
Pueblo (at I think Pueblo Motorsports Park)
Phoenix (South Mountain)
Langley, BC, Canada (outside Vancouver, about 5 miles from the US Border)

And I've got about 30 laps in an ITA RX7 on the oval outside Austin, Thunderhill Raceway.

My favorite track was the little oval in Topeka because we kicked everybody's ass... they had no idea how to setup the car for the decambered Turn 1 &2, and I impressed everybody with my left front tire. Somebody knocked a rumble strip off, and they glued it back on -- every time I'd drive by I'd tick the tooth with the tire (like I did before it got broken off) and with the glue oozing out after about 50 laps there was a stripe on the inside shoulder of the tire.

[charrbq]

Green Valley was about where TMS is...I think, and DIMS was south of Dallas...I think. I never ran DIMS...it went away before my time, barely. I remember tham talking about the asphalt getting so hot that it melted in the turns. A friend told me about taking his DP Datsun roadster into the last turn onto the straight at full tilt boogie, having the brakes go away, and swinging the butt out to the fence that ran alongside the straight. He never hit anything due to (he said) the sticky track. The last part was a stretch, but they did have to put water on his wife who was watching from the pits. It's something to remember when we bitch about safety, but it sure makes for some damn good tales around the beer at the ARRC!

We won't get into A.J. Foyt racing his Healey 100/4 at Hammond Airport lined with only hay bales.

[Bryan Addis]

Short list, but here it goes.

1. Mid-Ohio (The best track in the world)

2. Nelson Ledges

3. Gingerman

4. Summit Point

5. Lunken Airport Cincinnati (3 hour enduro) Only one race ever there! Great track though!!!

6. VIR In 3 days from today!!!!

Checked out VIR history....sounds like a great place to race. Lots of memories stirred up from that website!!!

[BMW RACER]

O.K. Greg you laid down the gauntlet, here goes:

1/Watkins Glen
2/Lime Rock (With and without chicane)
3/Buffalo (Street course)
4/Pocono (Oval)
5/Atlanta (Withand without dip)
6/Daytona
7/Sebring
8/St Pete (Street Course)
9/Tampa (Street course)
10/Topeka
11/Mid Ohio
12/Nelson Ledges
13/Pikes Peak Hillclimb
14/Pikes Peak (Roval)
15/Dallas (street course)
16/Texas World Speedway (Roval)
17/PIR (Roval)
18/Firebird Raceway
19/Portland
20/Sears Point
21/Thunderhill
22/Laguna Seca (Old course and new)
23/Buttonwillow (Tons of different courses)
24/Willow Springs
25/Riverside (Dang! I'm old)
26/Holtville
27/Las Vegas ( Roval, Club course and the teeny oval)
28/Mosport
29/Carlsbad
30/Brainard
31/Road America
32/Fontana (Roval)

Now here's a question: Name a track that Greg and I haven't driven on!

I've been racing since 1980 and have been VERY lucky to be given the oportunity to drive all these tracks. And I loved ever single one!

[Greg Amy]

You da man, John! Time for us to form up an enduro racing team...<grin>

[BMW RACER]

You da man, John! Time for us to form up an enduro racing team...<grin>

Greg, sounds like a plan, all we need to do is find a new track.

[ddewhurst]

***(Dang! I&#39;m old)***

If you were old & had driven all the tracks you would have driven Lyndale Farms.

[Bryan Addis]

Didn&#39;t see Gingerman, Gratten, IRP on that list BMW. There&#39;s a few out there for you.

I got to add VIR to my list over the past weekend. WOW very nice track!!!

[RacerBill]

Originally posted by BMW RACER@Nov 1 2005, 05:27 PM
O.K. Greg you laid down the gauntlet, here goes:

Now here&#39;s a question: Name a track that Greg and I haven&#39;t driven on!

I&#39;ve been racing since 1980 and have been VERY lucky to be given the oportunity to drive all these tracks. And I loved ever single one!

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How about the two that I mentioned, Vineland NJ and Thompson, CT and then add Bryar Motorsports Park (before it was NHIS!) and Meadowdale! Oh, yeah Chenault, and Lockbourn (old Army Air Force bases).

Oh, sorry. You mentioned 1980 as a lower limit!

[emwavey]

Summit Point - Main
VIR - Full Course
Pocono
- North
- South
- East
- Long
Roabling Road

Everything else was in dreams or on PlayStation.

[tims90rx7]

Hopefully just getting started...

NHIS
Watkins Glen
Pocono
Lime Rock
Summit Point
Road America
Mosport
Circuit Mont Tremblant

Tim

[Renaultfool]

Ok, been at it a while, so here goes.

I&#39;ve raced at;
Nelsons Ledges, love it! Fast and smooth! Track champion there in 1975 in a FP Datsun Roadster, my first year of car racing.
I just set the IT-C track record there in my new Renault Alliance. Look out ARRC next year, I&#39;m coming.

Mid Ohio Really love it! Fast and smooth! Best track in America.
IT-C track champion there several times in my Renault.
Have raced everything there, IMSA Champion Spark Plug Challange in Pinto, Mustang, and Renault Alliance, GTU in Datsun 240z, Mustang in Kelly Girl etc.
I plan on running all the races there next year in my new IT-C Renault Alliance.

Blackhawk, trees, narrow. IMSA Champion Spark Plug Challanage in Renault.

Indianapolis Raceway Park, rough when I was there. IMSA Champion Spark Plug Challange in Renault. SCCA GP in a Datsun Roadster, OK it was really a Fairlady.

Brainard, a long way from anywhere, BIG deer flys and mosquitos. Renault Cup.

Elkhart Lake, love it, smooth long. Renault Cup and IMSA Spark Plug Challange in Renault.

Watkins Glen, short course, don&#39;t care for it not much of a challange. Renault Cup.

Watkins Glen, long course, quite a bit better. Renault Cup.

Lime Rock, hated it every time, rough, narrow, one line track, won&#39;t ever go back.
Ran Renault Cup and Spark Plug Challange in Renault many years.

Summit Point, only there once in Renault Cup, not a good experiance but I would like to try it again, maybe next summer.

Charlotte road course, great! Renault Cup

Daytona road course, always fun! SCCA, 24 hours in Datsun 240z GTU, IMSA spark plug series in Pinto and Mustang, Renault Cup.

Talladaga road course, long, real long, 6 hour race. IMSA spark plug series in a Pinto.

Michigan International road course, was fun. Renault Cup

Road Atlanta, I always liked this track. IMSA spark plug series, Renault Cup.

Detroit Gran Prix IMSA Street Race when it was downtown, in Renault Cup and in Mustang in Champoin Spark Plug Series.

San Antonio IMSA Street Race in Champion Spark Plug Series in Renault.

Columbus IMSA Street Race, in Mustang spark plug series, Renault in endurance.

Pocono, did not care for their road course. Renault Cup.

Mosport, well it&#39;s Canadian you know. IMSA Champion Spark Plug Series, Pinto

I&#39;ve ridden around the track;
Suzuka, Japan
Mid America, old track West of St. Louis
Indy Speedway

I&#39;ve attended races at;
Snetterton, UK, BTTC
Cleveland Gran Prix, Indy cars

I&#39;ve been at;
Donnington, UK
Silverstone, UK
Beaver Run
Phoenix International road course

I want to race at if I don&#39;t run out of time and ability;
Beaver Run
VIR
Barber Motorsport Park

Renaultfool, IT-C Renault Alliance

[PDoane]

I&#39;m going to try and do this in chronological order

Tracks I&#39;ve driven

Le Circuit, Mt. Tremblant (pre makeover)
Bridgehampton
Riverside
Laguna Seca (pre Andretti hairpin)
Lime Rock
Watkins Glen (6 different configurations)
Pocono (numerous different configurations)
Bryar (pre NHIS)
Sebring (club course)
Moroso
Charlotte (road course)
Nelson Ledges
Summit Point
NHIS (south oval, north chicane)
VIR (full course)
Vegas (oval)
Talladega (separate/smaller road course for bikes/karts)
Mosport
Le Circuit (post makeover)
Shannonville (Fabi circuit)
Heartland Park
Duryea Hillclimb

Tracks I&#39;ve crewed at (but not driven)

Road Atlanta
Road America
Sears Point
Mid Ohio
Laguna Seca (w/Andretti hairpin)
Puerto Rico (airport circuit)
Sebring (12 hour, pro course)
Englishtown
Atco Dragway

Tracks I&#39;ve only spectated at

Waterford Hills
Indy (500 and F1)
Sanair (road course)
Detroit (downtown F1)
Montreal
Cleveland
Nazareth
Daytona (24 hour, road course)

Tracks I&#39;ve made a delivery to (but not driven or crewed or spectated)

Long Beach

[Mazmarc63]

Can&#39;t resist.

Homestead
Moroso
Sebring(long, short, modified, pre Andy Evans, post Andy Evans)
Daytona
Roebling Road
Road Atlanta(pre and post dip)
Kershaw
Rockingham(am I the only one??)
Charlotte(love that place)
Mid Ohio

Autocrossed in every parking lot and airstrip from Miami to Kansas to Washington.

[Newbie]

Homestead-Miami shortened road course (Marlboro "racing school", got me hooked on racing)
Blackhawk Farms
Road America
Autobahn Country Club (North, South , and combined)
Gingerman
Milwaukee Power Circuit (resurrected road course within and using the Milwaukee mile)

I need to get out more often!

[joeg]

Carl--Sounds like you will wear out that new Renault next year.

Get some graphics on it because the paint is in great shape.

Cheers.