What's your favourite circuit and why?
10-10-2012, 01:27 PM
#16
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Oregon Raceway Park in northeastern Oregon is my favorite. Great use of the hills making for an exciting track with lots of blind brows. We run it forwards and backwards, 2 track in 1!
I'll be in Austin for the F1 GP too.
Rich
I'll be in Austin for the F1 GP too.
Rich
10-10-2012, 04:17 PM
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Right now Thunderhill is my favorite circuit, probably because I've driven it more this year than any of the others near me. It's fun in both directions, in fact, I like driving it backwards more. Most of the area around the track is just flat open ground, so you can push it to the limit and not worry about hitting walls or rolling the car. Turn 2 is like a big skidpad, so you can test out any adjustments you make to your car. And lastly, the breakfast burritos there are the perfect start to a day of racing.
They say it's a horsepower track, but you can certainly fake the funk:
They say it's a horsepower track, but you can certainly fake the funk:
10-10-2012, 05:07 PM
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I've never driven the ring, but the impression I get is that at any moment you can come around a bend up on the bumper of someone just cruising along. That's kinda scary if you're used to the track environments here in the states.
10-10-2012, 06:24 PM
#21
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Bridgehampton is no more so ....
Regards
Ed
Regards
Ed
10-10-2012, 07:12 PM
#22
Three Wheelin'
Gonna have to say Port Imperial, cause its 15 min from my house and im gonna be watching the GP there next year!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Im...Street_Circuit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Im...Street_Circuit
10-12-2012, 01:30 AM
#27
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You guys in the US do know you're spoiled don't you?? We wouldn't have a dozen tracks in the whole of Australia. A few really good ones like Bathurst (which is a public road so access is extremely limited) Phillip Island (GP1 track) and a bunch of pretty ordinary ones. You guys seem to have tons of really good tracks and one in every town.
10-12-2012, 01:45 AM
#28
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You guys in the US do know you're spoiled don't you?? We wouldn't have a dozen tracks in the whole of Australia. A few really good ones like Bathurst (which is a public road so access is extremely limited) Phillip Island (GP1 track) and a bunch of pretty ordinary ones. You guys seem to have tons of really good tracks and one in every town.
TonyG
10-12-2012, 02:11 AM
#29
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Well except for the guns, economy and steering wheels on the wrong side I would. 
10-12-2012, 02:53 AM
#30
The first and only time I drove the ring I was terrified my first lap. Being used to road courses we have here in the U.S. that track can be intimidating if you don't have every corner memorized. It is even worse if there are a lot of cars out at the same time especially really fast ones. Its a very different track from what we have here and is in a class of its own. I never came up on someones bumper that was cruising along, people seem to be pretty good about watching their mirrors and using their blinkers but the really fast blind corners in the really fast section are intense.