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Old 08-04-2014, 05:56 PM
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All true, Scott. I am just telling you my favorites there. I love the climb up from 1 into all that weird stuff!
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Road Atlanta - 1, 11 and 12
Lime Rock - diving turn
Riverside (rip) - 9
Watkins Glen - 5 (w/o bus stop)

all high pucker factor
Old 08-04-2014, 06:30 PM
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The Kink at Road America. The only corner that scares the crap out of me every time I go through it at full tilt. It's like a little celebration of life ever 2 minutes and 27 seconds.
Old 08-04-2014, 07:04 PM
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Used to think of one corner or another at WGI and as VR also said, finally realized that my favorite corner was actually "All of them".. That is what makes WGI such a fantastic track.

To me it is often not a specific corner.. Its a sequence of corners taken as a whole

So
WGI: All of them
LRP: The Downhill
Thunderbolt: T1 & T3
Lightning: T1
VIR: T10 & roller coaster into Hog pen sequence
RA: 3-4-5/Esses sequence , T12 (downhill onto front straight)
CMP: 4-5-6 sequence & T8
Sebring - T17 & T1 (Yes, T1)
LCMT - 1-2-3-4 sequence (test of testicular fortitude)
Summit Point - 3-4-5 downhill sequence
Old 08-04-2014, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by winders
No love for the Carousel? How about turns 8 (the Esses) through 10?

The whole track is a series of great corners!
My favorite Left Coast track.

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Old 08-04-2014, 07:14 PM
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Corkscrew! Laguna Seca. Big drop 100ft+ drop, big Gs, banked turn exits all the way to the main straight.
Old 08-04-2014, 07:17 PM
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T1 at Bridgehampton was the best DIY testicular examination ever invented. Gone but not forgotten.

T1-T10 at Summit Point (and if they add the badly needed chicane to the front strait, it would be perfect.

The Inner-Outer loop, Lace and Toe sequence at the Glen offers so many options of braking, line, ***** and checkbook size, it makes for great door-to-door racing... plus its all downhill, so a HP equalizer.
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Originally Posted by winders
No love for the Carousel? How about turns 8 (the Esses) through 10?

The whole track is a series of great corners!
Yep, as nascar used to say when running the old track (that we run).
"Sears has as many curves as a snake!" Just love turn 3-4 and 8-9.

Love the kink at RA, and RAtlanta final turn down the main straight looks awesome too.
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Must also add Ricochet at MotorSport Ranch - Cresson. Downhill left, falling off camber, taken at full throttle (about 90 mph), and requires just the right amount of exit curbing. Great for testing the effectiveness of your front splitter, eye opening with and without!!
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Turns 7 and 10 at High Plains. Uphill in 7 trying every time to do it nearly flat and down in 10 - go early and hard if you dare - big helping camber awaits you at the bottom. Big fun on our technical track.

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Old 08-04-2014, 09:52 PM
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Ex-Muhle at the Nurburgring. Huge drop followed by a big climb. Major compression.

Barber Motorsports 12, 13, 14

Mid Ohio Madness

Road Atlanta 2, 3, 4, 5 and 11, 12.

COTA 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Putnam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Mid Ohio 2-3: just fun!, 11: love sliding up over the hill
Watkin's Glen: Esses, inner and outer loop, toe, 10. Oh hell just the whole place!
Mosport: 2 and 4: hold your breath and your right foot, 8, love the speed.
Nelson's: Oaktree, love tossing the car into the banking
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Sebring: T1 pucker factor fast,
T14 (aka Bishops Bend) fast flowing fun (aka fffun),
T17 forever in search of the fastest line
Road Atlanta: T1 how much speed can I carry and how much track is left at track out and satisfaction when you get it right,
T10a for the how late can I wait hard braking drop off before turn in and passenger thrills,
T12 where did the track go passenger thrills
Homestead: T1 flat out
T10 pucker factor scary transition from banking to infield upsets the car
Roebling Road: T3 go as fast as you dare
T9 go as fast as you dare
Barber: T4 spot the tower blind uphill
T8-9 bang the curbs straight down
T10-11 how much speed can I carry and keep it on track
T12-14 fffun
VIR (full): T7,8,9 (aka Climbing Esses) get it right from the start, keep off the grass, they ate my 968
T14-17 fun, technical, get it right, keep off the grass
PBIR: T11 (formerly T10 at Moroso) Watch out for the wall
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uphill at Lime Rock ...picture says it all

Or any very fast 3rd gear turn.....I love very fast 3rd gear turns (Only turns I feel like I cant be beat)
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Great list appreciate the comments. Seems like the Esses when done correctly are a big deal and of course the pucker corners.


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