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Old 05-27-2010, 02:57 PM
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Only problem is, that specific parcel is more than 15 miles from the airport....if you can believe their claim that it will be within 15 miles of the airport.









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Old 05-27-2010, 03:11 PM
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That's a nice resort.
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That's a nice resort.
Have you been?









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No. The wife stayed there. Apparently the lazy river is awesome.
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No. The wife stayed there. Apparently the lazy river is awesome.
Damn her. She never called, she never texted, nothing.









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Originally Posted by Jarez Mifkin
hmm...there's a Hyatt Resort about 15 miles east of the airport on 71, with a golf course, hills with a couple hundred feet of elevation change, the colorado river, and about 1600 acres of farm land next to it all. hmm.
Doubtful, the Hyatt wouldn't want to have a venue next to them where they could triple their room rates for a few weeks a year.
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
Only problem is, that specific parcel is more than 15 miles from the airport....if you can believe their claim that it will be within 15 miles of the airport.
So far they havne't done much to want me to believe what they say. In one day they went from looking at three places to having land bought.

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School less than .5 miles from the site. What looks like a lot of decently priced housing, etc. I just don't see it getting through all the hoops if that's the spot.
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Lost Pines Hyatt is great. We took the kids up there last year and had a blast. I think I hated leaving more than the kids.
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Oh my. He suggests banked corners and shortcuts for we yanks. Ugh. On the other hand, a track with overtaking opportunities. Gee, who would have thought of that?
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If this comes to fruition not only would F1 rce there I can see ALMS and Grand Am wanting to run there as well...

Maybe I'll move back to Tejas...
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If it's in June or later, 2012, sounds like a perfect graduation gift to myself. If it happens... Which it very likely won't... oh well...
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If it's in June or later in the summer, 2012, sounds like a rehash of the June 1984 fiasco in Dallas where it was 109 degrees.....total goatfuuuuck
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http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/formul.../article/2966/

Oh my. He suggests banked corners and shortcuts for we yanks. Ugh. On the other hand, a track with overtaking opportunities. Gee, who would have thought of that?
IIRC Monza used to have a banked section that was ultimately eliminated for safety reasons. So it's not like banking has never been a part of an F1 race.
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Tilke will screw it up. He has no idea what is needed, or if he does, no desire to build it. IMHO a couple of very wide, medium speed corners where cars can easily run side by side separated by enough straightaway to make it stick and you will have overtaking opportunities, even in F1.
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