GGC BMW CCA ran an autocross at the Coliseum right after the last time
they slurry-coated the lot. To this day we fondly refer to that event
as "GravelFest". Not surprisingly, the all wheel drive cars did very
well that day.
Scott Miller
GGC BMW CCA
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 09:09:49 -0700
>From: "Ed Runnion" <ed_runnion@regionofdoom.com>
>Subject: RE: The Oakland front lot experiment...
>
>> I vote for never using that front lot again. It was spotlessly
clean
>>at the start, but the strength of the binding of it's slurry coat
>>is so low that It took several miles of street driving and street
>> turns to scrape off the bulk of the gravel that we'd pulled up that
>>stuck to my Hoosiers.
>
>Some perspective/clarification...
>
>1. Front or "back" (i.e. our normal) lot has nothing to do with it.
The
>back lot was just slurry coated as well (or rather, is in process of
being
>done, thus why we didn't run there). A "long time ago" (ok, 6-7
years ago
>:)) we used to run on the front lot quite often and it was the same
>(relatively) as the back lot as far as traction.
>
>2. When I first moved here (almost 8 years ago), they slurry-coated
the lots
>right after that at the Coliseum. When they did so, it was a few
months of
>"crappiness" and the lot then came back to what we normally expect if
not
>slightly better than what the back lot was as of 2 months ago. It's
gonna
>just take time/weather to clean the lot off. In other words, the
>conditions yesterday were not exactly a surprise ;)
>
>I am not sure how many (if any) slush events are being set up for the
>Coliseum at this point. However I can pretty confidently say that
if we
>run Boondoggle 2007 there (on either front OR back lot) at the
Coliseum, the
>conditions will be vastly different than they were yesterday.
>
>Ed
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