A view of COTA turn 1, looking downhill
08-30-2012, 01:09 AM
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08-30-2012, 02:12 PM
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The last slot on the Pirelli Cup schedule has been TBA for sooo long, we finally got the "shhhh" word last week from the series operator that the deal has been secured. Hopefully the track gets completed and hopefully it doesnt fall prey to the things that sometimes happen at big opening events.
2008, first race at NJMP was the Grand-AM weekend, first session Scott pruet spins through the esses and reveals a wickedly dangerous armco barrier placement when he shears his car in half and almost did the same to himself. We were shut down for the day and the event almost canceled. They ened up lenghtening the armco making it much safer.
2011 Baltimore, last year at the ALMS Baltimore Grand Prix our first day was cut short due to the track not being complete, the entire event was questionable for a while but ended up going quite well.
I really hope the COTA people are on top of their game and have everything done in time.
I hope greg and his Pirelli cup staff are ready as well, we usually have 9 to 11 cars at each Pirelli Cup event this year, Guys are going to come out of the wood work to do this event, I was told they needed to have 26 entries to secure the support race spot, thats more than double the cars they are used to handling and most of them will be new to the series and procedures. Fingers crossed.
2008, first race at NJMP was the Grand-AM weekend, first session Scott pruet spins through the esses and reveals a wickedly dangerous armco barrier placement when he shears his car in half and almost did the same to himself. We were shut down for the day and the event almost canceled. They ened up lenghtening the armco making it much safer.
2011 Baltimore, last year at the ALMS Baltimore Grand Prix our first day was cut short due to the track not being complete, the entire event was questionable for a while but ended up going quite well.
I really hope the COTA people are on top of their game and have everything done in time.
I hope greg and his Pirelli cup staff are ready as well, we usually have 9 to 11 cars at each Pirelli Cup event this year, Guys are going to come out of the wood work to do this event, I was told they needed to have 26 entries to secure the support race spot, thats more than double the cars they are used to handling and most of them will be new to the series and procedures. Fingers crossed.
