The Clash at The Glen - heck with block talk, trash talk!
05-16-2012, 09:10 PM
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05-17-2012, 02:32 AM
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Let's see what I can call up from an old brain, full of cruelly, and rather expediently, killed brain cells...
We start with a high speed, and rather tight, right... unless you want to endure a big bump not long after the apex, making it a much wider right.
Then we go to a very long straight. But it's probably the only straight in America with a right, left, right, right... After which the motor gets really, really loud.
Then you push the middle pedal really hard, turn right, followed by one long left if you're good, or two short lefts if you're in Spec-tron 1 or 2..., then a right.
Next a long downhill right that kinda feels like a roller coaster, but not too much like one.
At which point the good drovers start showing up.
A downhill, funky radius left.
A bit of a chute.
Then another long but uphill right, meant to separate the men from the suckers.
Push hard with the right foot for a bit.
Then yet another right (...this track must have been designed by Conservatives!)
Track out and drop a tire, just to make the newbs lift.
Then a blind, decreasing radius left (...don't look at the bushes, don't look at the bushes, don't look at the bushes)
Then another, but very important, left, followed rather quickly by a really, really important right.
A couple of breaths...
Then we get to do it again.
(Of course, if you're in a Cup, ignore all of the above...)
And Dave, if you see me end out in the weeds... please, please bring over that track map. (Thanks for the offer)
We start with a high speed, and rather tight, right... unless you want to endure a big bump not long after the apex, making it a much wider right.
Then we go to a very long straight. But it's probably the only straight in America with a right, left, right, right... After which the motor gets really, really loud.
Then you push the middle pedal really hard, turn right, followed by one long left if you're good, or two short lefts if you're in Spec-tron 1 or 2..., then a right.
Next a long downhill right that kinda feels like a roller coaster, but not too much like one.
At which point the good drovers start showing up.
A downhill, funky radius left.
A bit of a chute.
Then another long but uphill right, meant to separate the men from the suckers.
Push hard with the right foot for a bit.
Then yet another right (...this track must have been designed by Conservatives!)
Track out and drop a tire, just to make the newbs lift.
Then a blind, decreasing radius left (...don't look at the bushes, don't look at the bushes, don't look at the bushes)
Then another, but very important, left, followed rather quickly by a really, really important right.
A couple of breaths...
Then we get to do it again.
(Of course, if you're in a Cup, ignore all of the above...)
And Dave, if you see me end out in the weeds... please, please bring over that track map. (Thanks for the offer)
05-17-2012, 04:36 PM
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05-17-2012, 11:35 PM
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When the trash talk, but not the Clash, is over
This is really worth doing (but not after a long visit to the Seneca Lodge)
http://www.grandprixfestival.com/map.html
The downhill and stone bridge are terrifying when you think about taking them at speed, especially considering the tires and brakes they had.
Those guys back then were nucking futs!
http://www.grandprixfestival.com/map.html
The downhill and stone bridge are terrifying when you think about taking them at speed, especially considering the tires and brakes they had.
Those guys back then were nucking futs!
05-18-2012, 07:48 AM
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I had the pleasure of being passenger to Pete Argentsinger for that ride 2 years ago!!!!!
This is really worth doing (but not after a long visit to the Seneca Lodge)
http://www.grandprixfestival.com/map.html
The downhill and stone bridge are terrifying when you think about taking them at speed, especially considering the tires and brakes they had.
Those guys back then were nucking futs!
http://www.grandprixfestival.com/map.html
The downhill and stone bridge are terrifying when you think about taking them at speed, especially considering the tires and brakes they had.
Those guys back then were nucking futs!
05-18-2012, 11:41 AM
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