Real race rubber, as in non-DOT? Just fine, thank you! Not a problem at all.
--Pat K
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>From: Adam Steffes <asteffes@asteffes.com>
>Cc: Bay Area Autocross List <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
>Date: Mon, Jun 3, 2002, 10:12 AM
>
> It also chews up street tires like there is no tomorrow. I usually tell
> friends who want to try Solo-2 to wait for an event at any other venue.
> What's it like at GGF for those who run on race rubber?
> -Adam
>
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Michael R. Clements wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:53:28 -0700
>> From: Michael R. Clements <mrclem@telocity.com>
>> To: 'Joe' <joe@bea.com>, ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> Subject: RE: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
>>
>> I believe there were attempts to clean up the gravel at GGF but it was
>> just like the cat -- it kept coming back. I appreciate the efforts made
>> to get the GGF site but I won't go there any more because it ruins the
>> paint job on my car.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> > [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe
>> > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 09:26
>> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> > Subject: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi all.
>> >
>> > I just ran in an all-day autocross with the PCA at Golden
>> > Gate Fields yesterday and it was very irritating, almost to
>> > the point that I would skip events there. There is so much
>> > loose gravel all over the lot that the first group must have
>> > bead-blasted their undercarriages to clean a line. The 'line'
>> > was essentially point-to-point because with no traction
>> > that's the shortest way around. Even in the afternoon, this
>> > was a 'drive-a-stupid-line-as-fast-as-you-can' event because
>> > any attempt to vary put you into the drifts of displaced
>> > marbles. There was a typical thirty-paces slalom where the
>> > cleared 'line' was precisely straight from one side of one
>> > cone to the other side of the next cone.
>> >
>> > Have we ever paid someone to sweep a lot? I would gladly chip
>> > in for this, rather than be chipped away by the gravel. Joe Weinstein
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