Doug,
Thanks....
I am going to pass along your glowing VIR report to my "Friends" and more.
Looks like it needs to be a high priority on our schedule...so many tracks,
so little time.
Perhaps you could recommend a particular event sometime......
Joe
<< n a message dated 7/5/00 10:36:31 PM, N197TR4@cs.com writes:
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The place is amazing. When you enter the track you drive about a half
mile to get to the first guard shack -- that gives an idea of how much land
the track sits on. The paddock has paved access roads to handle 4-500
entries. Lots of electrical hook-ups. Race gas is available at pumps that
accept your credit cards. The bathrooms are air-conditioned and would not be
out of place in a decent hotel. The false grid is covered to keep you out of
the hot sun. All of this is set in beautiful rolling southern Virginia
countryside staffed with extremely pleasant personnel (as opposed to a
certain track centrally located in the State of Ohio).
And that's al before you get on the track. Yes, it is "baby butt"
smooth. It also has everything from tight hairpins to fast sweepers. Some
of the highlights include: the very fast "uphill esses" taken flat in 4th at
approx 95-100mph in my little S800. "Oak tree turn" - a tight corner leading
onto the backstraight dominated by a huge oak tree on the inside of the
corner. You drive right under the branches as you negotiate the turn. The
"downhill esses" - a daunting and difficult series of corners plunging
downhill. The last corner in the downhill esses is devilishly difficult and
critical to your speed down the 3000' front straight.
If you get the chance to race there, you will not be disappointed by the
track or the facilities.
Doug. >>
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