Nashville SuperSpeedway TT/ClubRace/SARRC/Night Enduro/PDX

[wbp]

Neal, being from Florida, I feel sure you haven't driven Nashville Superspeedway before. So doing the May 17-18 Track Trails to learn the track would be smart. With three 15 minute practices and about 10 five lap timed runs, it should allow you to learn a lot about the track. Experienced instructors will be available for advise if you want it. The very fast, decreasing radius turn after the front Tri-oval takes a while to learn. And, as this turn is about .3 miles long, it makes a huge difference in laps times if you finally do learn to get it right.
I hope you can find a rental car for the Track Trials. It is good to hear that Tom Fowler, OPM, will be there with rental cars for the race.

[Kolin Aspegren]

Not being a smarta$$ but is this place any fun to drive. Looking to do some shake down races on our 13 hour car. Schedule looks fantastic. Can somebody who's run there give me some insight.

thanks

k

[neal norton]

Thanks, Bill

I agree it would be a great way to learn the track, plus a new type of event I haven't tried.

I hope to find somebody who would like to share a car and of course the costs.

Regards,

Neal

[pballance]

Kolin,
It is an roval and it is pretty fun to drive as rovals go. I have run it in a time trial setting and then worked the races from turn 1. Some people will complain about the transition from the Nascar banking onto the flat skirt into turn one and the same thing enetering the banking after the bus stop.

I haven't noticed the transition as being tough as my line, and debatedly the fast line is to stay low on the banking. FWIW, 2 DSR guys I race with stay low and have no problem with the transition. One of them won last years Saturday race and broke a half shaft while passing an FC in the bus stop that finished his day on Sunday. Others complain quite loudly that NSS "breaks their cars" but I think that is a case of going too high on the NASCAR concrete.

Here is a link to a track diagram. http://www.rivergate5speed.com/scca/...lle-track.html
A lot of passing takes place entering 1 and then along the "thumbprint" area between 1 and 2. The back straight is also a great passing area and on the entry/front straight.

Give it a try, I think you will enjoy it, Open garages are available and the track staff is actually a pleasure to deal with. They really make you feel at home!

Come on down, you may not realize it but Heart of Dixie has a lot of meaning to the Tennessee Valley Region (actually in North Alabama). It was the name of a multi-time award winning national TSD rally. This same group along with Chattanooga are returning as a "racing" region with this raace. The last race for TVR was around 1974 and I was actually at that one

You will find southern hospitality at it's finest with the host regions! Come on down, we would love to have you!

Paul

[pballance]

Kolin, I forgot to add some video from the start of last years race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZW3cpn4Vo&feature=user

Notice the Z cars at the front

[Kolin Aspegren]

Thank you Paul for the write up and video, spent and hour on the phn trying to iron
out the schdule for the rest of the year. We are trying to pull this off. One question
I have is how long is the enduro 300k is my georgia math looks like about 2.5 hours
am I close.

K

[JeffYoung]

I went to this event last year. Had a great time, and the racing is good. It's a bit too long of a tow for me to make this year, but the folks in Tenn. run a great show and the track is fun. If I were 5 hours away instead of 10, I'd be there for sure.