team-thicko
[Top] [All Lists]

Report On VIR

To: S800Racer@aol.com, fot@autox.team.net, team-thicko@autox.team.net
Subject: Report On VIR
From: N197TR4@cs.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:30:25 EDT
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:
 
 <>
 
    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. >>

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>