Kurt R

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The Nationwide series will be at Road America June 19, 2010. The SCCA June sprints will move back one weekend to free the date. This replaces the Milwaukee Mile race.

This is the same weekend Sprint Cup will be in Sonoma. They're hoping for Grand-Am in 2011, so I wonder what the support races will be this year.

Over / Under on cars in the sand at Canada Corner? I'll say 6 during the race, 35 over the weekend.

mjensen

SCCA Trans-Am, Playboy MX-5 cup, and Mid-American stock cars will be the support classes. Nationwide will be on Saturday, four-day event. Awesome for our local economy, RA and exposure to Roadracing. I can't wait, don't mind waiting one more week to race in Spec Miata at the June Sprints...

ltc

I'm waiting for the press release announcing that they will run a special "all left turn" configuration of RA for this event.

It would still be fun to watch NA$CAR hit the 'Boot' at Watkins Glen, rather than their own configuration.

VaSteve

Why don't they? Because it's too tight/steep in the toe or something?

The boot is a hoot!!!

ltc

I don't know the answer...

Potomac-Greg

Did they do that to give Danika a chance?

John H

I think they will probably cut through at the end of the straight at turn 5 and come back onto the road course right before the last corner before the front straight.

John H

they'll probably need to run it backwards tho'

Bryan Watts

I've heard that it's mostly a spectator thing. Shorter laps, better viewing, etc.

race911

So what was the configuration prior to about 1970 that F1 ran?

Kurt R

Third version of Watkins Glen. Found here http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks...tkinsGlen.html
Looks like in '73 they added the "boot", took out the chicane at south bend, and moved the pits and changed some of the corners.

This is kind of taking the thread off topic.

race911

I was responding to a comment that at Watkins Glen NASCAR ran "their own configuration". Seemed to me that the current NASCAR config was suspiciously similar to how the track was before the lengthening/reshaping in 1971. Was a bitch of a track to run on Grand Prix Legends, wasn't it?

If we want to talk about track bastardization, I'll submit Laguna Seca pre- and post- 1980whatever to entice MotoGP/F1/etc.

Kurt R

I guess I should have figured that out when I saw the configuration.
Now do we want to talk about Sears Point?

gbuff

Barrelling down the hill towards the Toe would prolly trash the tiny brakes those cars have inside of 10 laps.....I used to watch the SCCA races there and it wasn't long before the pony cars' brakes were belching smoke....

VaSteve

Kurt R, neat map.

I notice that there are several named roads that cross the course, Wedgewood for one; modern maps show similar (same?) roads. I have only been to the Glen once, are those roads accessible on non-race days?