The gravel problem is only temporary. There will soon be a really nice
hotel, meeting center and waterfront retail on the site.
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <joe@bea.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:25 AM
Subject: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
> Hi all.
>
> I just ran in an all-day autocross with the PCA at Golden Gate Fields
> yesterday and it was very irritating, almost to the point that I would
> skip events there. There is so much loose gravel all over the lot that
> the first group must have bead-blasted their undercarriages to clean
> a line. The 'line' was essentially point-to-point because with no traction
> that's the shortest way around. Even in the afternoon, this was a
> 'drive-a-stupid-line-as-fast-as-you-can' event because any
> attempt to vary put you into the drifts of displaced marbles. There was
> a typical thirty-paces slalom where the cleared 'line' was precisely
> straight from one side of one cone to the other side of the next cone.
>
> Have we ever paid someone to sweep a lot? I would gladly chip in
> for this, rather than be chipped away by the gravel.
> Joe Weinstein
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