It also chews up street tires like there is no tomorrow. I usually tell
friends who want to try Solo-2 to wait for an event at any other venue.
What's it like at GGF for those who run on race rubber?
-Adam
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Michael R. Clements wrote:
> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:53:28 -0700
> From: Michael R. Clements <mrclem@telocity.com>
> To: 'Joe' <joe@bea.com>, ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
>
> I believe there were attempts to clean up the gravel at GGF but it was
> just like the cat -- it kept coming back. I appreciate the efforts made
> to get the GGF site but I won't go there any more because it ruins the
> paint job on my car.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe
> > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 09:26
> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > 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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