Whats Your Local Race Track?

[Takumi Fujiwara]

Originally posted by Dark Skyline
Why go for drifting when you can go for migets or the king taco cars and turkey night is awsome. Do you have somthing against oval tracks?Also its only ten minutes or less away for me. Oh yeah and dont forget the drag strip they have, even though its not much of a drag strip.

Because, frankly, Midgets and King taco cars and the like bore me. It's a form of motorsport that in many ways, s more about the beer than the cars. And seeing some cobbled together sheet metal midget is no fun to me. I'm only interested in seeing cars that people can actually drive on the road go fast. I.E. Drift, WRC, JGTC, etc. I'm into modifying and tuning cars, not making them from scratch. Besides, a midget isn't much of a sleeper, and sleepers are what I'm into.

 

[Roo]

I haven't been down to the festival in years. Any good this year?

Missed this year's Festival of Speed, but I went last year. Highlights for me being meeting Andy Wallace (Bentley Le Mans driver), getting Jenson Button's autograph and seeing the Espace F1 go up the hill.

 

[kikie]

Zolder (25 min drive)

 

[Dave_George]

Mine is Donington Park which is about 10 mins away from me.....just a shame i cant afford to go more often but the Moto GP was good!!

 

[ExigeEvan]

Heh, nice revival

Google Earth Pic.

 

[hscott]

My local race track:-

 

[kikie]

My local race track:-

Silverstone????????

 

[nitro_2005]

over here it has to be the ultimate: snetterton! The best thing about it is that next year the ciruit is getting a makeover, with a new circuit layout and improved facilities. They are hoping to get the track up to FIA Grade 2 standards, which means that it can host such chasmpionships such as FIA GT, WTCC, CART etc. Just not F1 though.

 

[hscott]

Silverstone????????

Yep. 👍

 

[crimson_menace]

My aunt lives 20 min. away from Laguna Seca, I live a few minutes away from Stateline speedway...local hicks & whatnot, and Spokane speedway is about a halfhour west of here.

 

[LeadSlead#2]

I'm bout 15 min from Bradenton Motorsports Park...it's a pretty crappy track, but it's all west Florida has...about 1-2 hrs from Sebring... & up in Pennsylvania I was 45min from Maple Grove--My dad drag raced there competitively in the 80's.....then he had to many kids....

 

[xXSilencerXx]

I live about an Hour from Richmond Intl' Speedway and about four hours from Dover Intl' Racway. Don't really know if theres any road courses around Virginia. The only road race I know that took place near here was the Trans Am or the American Le Mans series in Washinton D.C. a few years ago.

 

[ND4SPD]

Well the closes, recognizable and famous one near me would have to me Mosport International Raceway. Maybe a 2 hour drive from here.

 

[Carl.]

I live about 10 minutes away from the circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. Used to live even closer, I could see parts of the track from my living room back then. (from the 22nd floor). Outside the F1 and Cart events, you can drive on it anytime... but the speed limit is around 20 or 30 km/h. I know a few people who ran hotlaps at night though, a few years back when it was deserted and had less security.




Aside from a few smaller local racetracks, there's also the old F1 track at Mont-Tremblant, which is a 1.5 hour drive away.

 

[Danny]

I suppose I'm nearest to Donnington.

Still a fair trek though.

 

[VIPFREAK]

A friend of mine lives in Monteray, home of Leguna Seca.

That's pretty much near me too. He and I would be near Sears Point too.

 

[den brakke]

I live 30 minutes from the circuit of Zolder. (where Gilles Villeneuve died during the 1982 belgian grand prix)

 

[Danny]

You must live near kikie

 

[CDailey]

I'm an afternoon's drive to either Daytona, Sebring or Road Atlanta.

There's some small tracks in my neck of the woods, but none you'd ever heard of.

Same here. There's a dragstrip about an hour or so away from my house where the Gator Nationals are held each year.

 

[logi74]

That's pretty much near me too. He and I would be near Sears Point too.

I live in Carmel Valley, just over the ridge from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (15 min. maybe)

 

[MagpieRacer]

Brands Hatch again here.

Silverstone AND donington are closer to you than Brands hatch arent they?

for me it is brands hatch about 20-25 miles away.

 

[KurtisGSXR]

Mallory park. 5 minutes away. Been on 4 track days already. More next summer.

Easy to learn, only about 6 corners! Although Gerrards is a 100mph in (on a bike), 90 on the apex, 120 on the exit, 200 degree bumpy "corner".


Kurtis.

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

Wow, this is an old thread! I sounded really stupid two years ago...

Anyway, our real local courses are Willow Springs and Buttonwillow, but neither hosts much in the way of major racing series, instead catering to club racing and track days. I'm gonna make it up to Laguna some day for ALMS or something...

 

[LSQuicksilver]

Waterford Hills, one of Car and Driver's old secret hideouts.

A little farther off is Michigan International Speedway, which hosts NASCAR twice a year and now the IRL; CART used to race there as well.

 

[TheCracker]

Mallory park. 5 minutes away. Been on 4 track days already. More next summer.

Easy to learn, only about 6 corners! Although Gerrards is a 100mph in (on a bike), 90 on the apex, 120 on the exit, 200 degree bumpy "corner".

Don't you just hate that bump on the inside of the exit of Gerrards?

Donnington is about an hour away. Mallory, Croft, Oulton, Silverstone and Cadwell are all within approx two hours.

Rufforth and Harewood (hillclimb) were my locals when i was a sprog.

 

[TheCracker]

I can't remember which one Snetterton is again. Isn't it the converted airfield with a huge back straight ? Always looked a bit flat and dull for my liking.

Snetterton is a right bast*rd to get to, from the north anyway. It is an old airfield (as are 80% of all British circuits - you can thank the Nazis for that!)

Its fairly dull to spectate - but fantastic to race on. Its a nice flowing circuit - and easy to learn.

 

[Elegy]

Closest road track: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Closest oval track: Not sure, probably the Columbus Motor Speedway.

Sadly, I haven't been to either one. My mom's been to Mid-Ohio numerous times, though. She'd get dragged up there by one of my uncles every so often.

 

[Wolfe]

Road America. Longest road-course in the usa.


It's got some history, too...

 

[Joey D]

Waterford Hills, one of Car and Driver's old secret hideouts.

A little farther off is Michigan International Speedway, which hosts NASCAR twice a year and now the IRL; CART used to race there as well.

Same as him, I live about 20 minutes from Waterford Hill. Also I'm close to Lapeer International Dragway, and Milan (I guess I'm close to it)

 

[RVDNuT374]

Closest Oval Track: Sumter Speedway *dirt track*

Other Oval Tracks within a 2 hr drive: Darlington Raceway (please don't axe it from the Nascar schedule), Myrtle Beach Speedway, Florence Motor Speedway, I-20 Speedway in Columbia (dirt track)

Drag Strips within 2 hrs: Clarendon County Drag Strip, Cooper River Dragway, Orangeburg Dragway, Dorchester Dragway