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Re: Report On VIR

To: N197TR4@cs.com
Subject: Re: Report On VIR
From: grand_wazoo <grand_wazoo@flinet.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:40:41 -0700
The SVRA race in October should be just fantastic.  Great weather and a great
track.  I'll do everything I can to be there and then IRP the weekend after.

mike jackson

N197TR4@cs.com wrote:

> Doug,
>
> Thanks....
>
> I am going to pass along your glowing VIR report to my "Friends" and more.
> Looks like it needs to be a high priority on our schedule...so many tracks,
> so little time.
>
> Perhaps you could recommend a particular event sometime......
>
> Joe
>
> << n a message dated 7/5/00 10:36:31 PM, N197TR4@cs.com writes:
>
>  <>
>
>     The place is amazing.  When you enter the track you drive about a half
> mile to get to the first guard shack -- that gives an idea of how much land
> the track sits on.  The paddock has paved access roads to handle 4-500
> entries.  Lots of electrical hook-ups.  Race gas is available at pumps that
> accept your credit cards.  The bathrooms are air-conditioned and would not be
> out of place in a decent hotel.  The false grid is covered to keep you out of
> the hot sun.  All of this is set in beautiful rolling southern Virginia
> countryside staffed with extremely pleasant personnel (as opposed to a
> certain track centrally located in the State of Ohio).
>     And that's al before you get on the track.  Yes, it is "baby butt"
> smooth.  It also has everything from tight hairpins to fast sweepers.  Some
> of the highlights include:  the very fast "uphill esses" taken flat in 4th at
> approx 95-100mph in my little S800.  "Oak tree turn" - a tight corner leading
> onto the backstraight dominated by a huge oak tree on the inside of the
> corner.  You drive right under the branches as you negotiate the turn.  The
> "downhill esses" - a daunting and difficult series of corners plunging
> downhill.  The last corner in the downhill esses is devilishly difficult and
> critical to your speed down the 3000' front straight.
>     If you get the chance to race there, you will not be disappointed by the
> track or the facilities.
>
>     Doug. >>


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