Both are top tracks. Mid Ohio is a technicle track, Mosport is a test to see how big your b@11s be. Mid Ohio is less $$ for track time, hotels, and gas + is a little safer bet in early or late season.

Long but easy highway drives.

 

Any pucker factor turns like the kink at RA at Mid Ohio? I've done video games and watched a bunch on TV (including Micky Andretti's famous flight into the sand trap) but never actually been there. Want to someday make the long haul from Iowa but need a better long tow tow vehicle first...

 

I'm hoping to have the 930 ready in time for it this year...

 

T11 is he guts corner there, but a different nature than the kink. Everything I have driven through the kink is flat, but it is hang of for dear life flat - knowing that if you miss your marks by 1 foot you will probably not make it.

T11 requires braking under cornering load with an increasing radius turn - crest of a hill before track out (and before remodeling, a very close wall on both outside and inside). Much ealier apex than most think and you will have the car sliding and not really under control in the first half of the corner (until it opens up). If you miss your marks, the car will be turning too much as you crest the hill and you will lose it.

Most good DE folks leave a good 1.5 seconds on the table with that corner and most club racers leave almost a second. You can go after that last bit of time, but the risk level is pretty high (at least with the old wall locations).

 

What Mark says. I never thought there was that much time in that corner until I rode with a guy that won a few SCCA Runoffs in SRF and FA. That is just one place where lots of time hides for most of us mortals.

 

I absolutely love Mid-Ohio. I can't wait to go back! Have not yet been to Mosport, so I can not comment on that one.

 

I have made the trips to Mid-Ohio and Mosport (and VIR) with NNJR for the past 5 years. It just happens to be that they are each about exactly 8hrs from my home. They are all great, but different, tracks and I have a difficult time ranking them. I will say that the drive to Mid-Ohio is by far the most boring drive, and if I had to cut out one of the three, that would likely be the deciding factor.

If you have never been to MO, DO IT!

 

Looks like I don't really have a choice based on this feedback

 

Mosport!! Ran there in '05 with NNJR. That is my fav, bar none. LCMT is a close 2nd. Followed by the Glen, VIR, Summit Point, then M-O for me.

 

I wanted to make it to Mid-O last year but it just didn't happen, this summer will be different as the trip is already on my schedule. I plan to be there for the NNJR PCA event and then possibly NASA nationals if I'm successful in TTB.

 

Sounds like there will be plenty of Rennlisters to teach me the line

 

Sean - NNJR requires you to take an instructor out with you if it's your first time on a new track (at least they used to). It's a good rule, I would ask for one anyway. Funny thing is my first time at Summit I took the instructor but it was HIS first time there also! Worked out fine, we both had fun learning the line and trying out different things.

 

Gary - I'll want as much instruction as I can get. BTW, this event is co-hosted by CVR.

 

I like Mid-O especially after the repave & curbing improvements.

 

Mid O and Mosport are both fabulous. Hit both if you can. One caveat: avoid both in the spring, the weather usually sucks (cold and rain).