<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6136"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6222">What happened to Road Atlanta? I haven't seen it mentioned. From a driver's perspective, it was my favorite track, just ahead of Road America. Of course part of that was due to the fact that my car was well suited to that track. I haven't followed what has happened there since I last participated in The Runoffs there in 1993, but I noticed some changes when I was there for the K Cup a few years ago. Lots of great memories from RA!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6294" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6222"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6293" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6222">Jack</span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6095" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6094" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6093" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6096" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bill Babcock via Fot <fot@autox.team.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Kas Kastner <kaskastner@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> FOT <fot@autox.team.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:08 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Fot] Spectator tracks<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6097" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6349429176"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6098">The question was not “what’s your favorite track as a driver” but since I don’t generally spectate except F1 on television I’ll answer from the perspective of best overall experience. My favorite track is Sears Point. Fun to drive, great area, the old Wine Country race was great, it’s a bit too “Monterey” now since the organizers want it to outshine Monterey, so I’ll probably skip that and do the CSRG Charity Challenge instead. As Kas said, there are a lot of spots where you can almost everything. <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6099" class="yiv6349429176"><br class="yiv6349429176" clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427548533533_6100" class="yiv6349429176">Road America is my #2. Great track, great facilities, and Elkheart lake lives and breathes racing. I’d rank it a lot lower for spectating if your interest is seeing a lot of stuff simultaneous. It’s more like two curves for each viewing area. Big track. </div><div class="yiv6349429176"><br class="yiv6349429176" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv6349429176">Watkins Glen is #3. Again, a great track, lovely facilities though not quite the same friendliness and open character of Road America. Has all the same overarching character of Elkhart lake, but with a little less racing emphasis. Some good places to see the track with a more open view than RA. </div><div class="yiv6349429176"><br class="yiv6349429176" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv6349429176">Mosport is #4. Facilities are primitive but fun, long way from anywhere, but the nearby towns are nice. Challenging driving. You need a third testicle to drive it well. Never boring. You may find yourself sitting in your car after practice, wondering if this is really something you should do. I can’t imagine driving it on a wings and slicks car or a motorcycle. But they do. </div><div class="yiv6349429176"><br class="yiv6349429176" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv6349429176">VIR—great facilities, okay track. Hard to see a lot of the track at a time, but wow, do they put on a show. </div><div class="yiv6349429176">Limerock—nice place, great area, track is kind of boring. </div><div class="yiv6349429176">Laguna Seca—great corners connected by too much straight. Fun on a motorcycle or a big HP car, but for 2K pound, 150HP cars it’s not the best. Still, it’s a fun track but the monterey Historic (or whatever it’s called now) is more of a car show than a race. You spend a lot of time sitting around. Lots to see and do, but depeinding on whether you drive saturday or sunday you may not be able to do a lot of the most interesting things. Still, great show, car guys dream, but probably not every year anymore, like I used to do. </div><div class="yiv6349429176"><br class="yiv6349429176" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv6349429176"><br class="yiv6349429176" clear="none"><div><blockquote class="yiv6349429176" type="cite"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv6349429176yqt3010185014" id="yiv6349429176yqt68139"><div class="yiv6349429176">On Mar 27, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Kas Kastner via Fot <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv6349429176" ymailto="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv6349429176Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><div class="yiv6349429176"><div class="yiv6349429176" dir="ltr"><div class="yiv6349429176">Sear's point has to get my vote. I've either raced at, been a car owner, team owner at most tracks in the USA. Sear's Point ( they keep changing the name so I will just call it Sear's Point), North of San Francisco has a several spots where you can see about 70% of the race track and still feel close to the cars and see the drivers in the cockpit in action. Just wonderful for seeing who has the power and who has the handling and who has the talent.<br class="yiv6349429176" clear="all"></div><div class="yiv6349429176"><div class="yiv6349429176gmail_signature"><div class="yiv6349429176"><strong class="yiv6349429176"><font class="yiv6349429176" color="#000099">Never be beaten by equipment.</font></strong></div></div></div>
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