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Old 03-03-2009, 11:35 AM
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Default Road Atlanta or Roelbing Road?

Which one is it?

Street Names are deceiving
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Kind of an unconventional line through the carousel and onto the main straight, don't ya think?
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LOL brings new meaning to dirt being part of the racing surface.
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How did they make that happen?

Silly technology.
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Google guy was a little deep into 5 and was slow to recover
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This explains my slow lap times at both tracks, my GPS directions are all messed up!
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This confirms I have been studying the track map utilizing entirely the wrong line..............
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Okay. This is definitely Roebling Road Raceway.

The problem is a real estate developer built a "plantation-type" development behind Roebling Road. He had all the streets named after race tracks, like Road Atlanta, Daytona, Sebring, etc. for some reason, Road Atlanta was "funnily" placed onto the actual RRR track layout.

It's cute. Thanks Seth. I guess I can put that in the next Buccaneer newsletter. They'll get a kick out of it. Maybe. You know, we are all very proud of RRR as is...
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Originally Posted by DarkSideDE
Okay. This is definitely Roebling Road Raceway.

The problem is a real estate developer built a "plantation-type" development behind Roebling Road. He had all the streets named after race tracks, like Road Atlanta, Daytona, Sebring, etc. for some reason, Road Atlanta was "funnily" placed onto the actual RRR track layout.

It's cute. Thanks Seth. I guess I can put that in the next Buccaneer newsletter. They'll get a kick out of it. Maybe. You know, we are all very proud of RRR as is...
I thought this was funny that Google has a street name for the track called Road Atlanta. Makes one think that Roebling is Road Atlanta's version of MiniMe.
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I've written in to the map company - I hope they get around to fixing it. RRR has it's own great reputation as does Road Atlanta - and they are definitely not the same creature. Someone had a very "sick" sense of humour there...



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