Whats Your Local Race Track?

[ExigeEvan]

Mine is Pembrey. It isn't famous, it isn't well known, but it's local. sadly I'm too young to go for a spin....yet.

http://www.trackdays.co.uk/circuits/Pembrey.htm

Whats yours? You got pics? whats it like?

 

[wee_man]

Take your pic out of Brands Hatch or Goodwood . Goodwood is better for track days, but I think that Brands is fantastic for spectating. Though Goodwood is pretty good as well, especially considering you're so close to the cars and there isn't any catch fencing. I'm right in the middle of both of them .

 

[ExigeEvan]

lucky git

 

[GentlemanDriver]

Nürburgring, Spa

 

[sn00pie]

Assen, Spa, Zandvoort, Zolder.

 

[wee_man]

Both you sn00pie and GentlemanDriver are official tossers .

 

[ExigeEvan]

You guys ever raced/driven on those tracks?

 

[LoudMusic]

A friend of mine lives in Monteray, home of Leguna Seca. Does that count for anything? (:

 

[miata13B]

Well, Daytona 500 / Sebring / Biltho Drag track Also near my mom's house is Limerock in Connecticut.

 

[Famine]

Brands Hatch again here.

 

[///M-Spec]

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.


///M-Spec

 

[miata13B]

Originally posted by ///M-Spec
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.


///M-Spec

I didn't know you resided in the northern Florida area . . . I am right out of Orlando

 

[ExigeEvan]

god i wish i never started this now. It just seems so dam embarrasing

 

[Vader]

New England Dragway, or New Hampshire International Speedway. Limerock isn't too far.

 

[LoudMusic]

Well, I don't have anything near me. I suppose Texas Motor Speedway is a day's drive, but I sure wouldn't make the trip for an oval track. Indy is probably a day and a half. The Florida tracks would be a day and a half as well. Arkansas just sucks - we have nothing local and anything cool enough to drive / fly to is just at the fringe of being too far.

 

[Roo]

Either Goodwood or Thruxton, both are about 30-40 miles from me.

 

[miata13B]

Originally posted by ExigeExcel
god i wish i never started this now. It just seems so dam embarrasing

Exige, the track you are near looks like a fun short track. Nothing to be embarassed by. I personally would love to have had my old miata and ran it around that track . I really wish I had the topography of the track to see the attitude changes on it Personnally I don't like Daytona because I do believe in Right hand turns. Unless they open the infield there I would not be caught dead watching a race there. As for Sebring, that is my precious

 

[///M-Spec]

Originally posted by miata13B
I didn't know you resided in the northern Florida area . . . I am right out of Orlando

Triangulation is a handy skill, ain't it I live up the road from 'ol Jeb.

Orlando's a nice town. Lots of stuff to do... very nice 'scenery'.


///M-Spec

 

[miata13B]

Originally posted by ///M-Spec

Orlando's a nice town.
///M-Spec

Ok now I think your smoking crack j/k Hey if your going to Lemans next year we should meet up

 

[///M-Spec]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
I suppose Texas Motor Speedway is a day's drive, but I sure wouldn't make the trip for an oval track.

I have some buddies near TMS that do track days there --they have an infield section course. Not very technical, but still fun.


///M-Spec

 

[///M-Spec]

Originally posted by miata13B
Ok now I think your smoking crack j/k Hey if your going to Lemans next year we should meet up

Maybe so The wife and I have friends in Maitland, and we usually have a good time there. I'm amazed how many fine lookin women you have in that town, though

Le Mans? No, no... I'm not flying all the way to France just to see Audi/Bentley win again. I might catch you at Sebring if you're going in Feb, though.. I haven't been in a couple of years.


///M-Spec

 

[miata13B]

Originally posted by ///M-Spec
Maybe so The wife and I have friends in Maitland, and we usually have a good time there. I'm amazed how many fine lookin women you have in that town, though

Le Mans? No, no... I'm not flying all the way to France just to see Audi/Bentley win again. I might catch you at Sebring if you're going in Feb, though.. I haven't been in a couple of years.


///M-Spec

That is what I am talking about the American Lemans series in Sebring. . . my bad I actually use to live in Maitland right off of 17-92 inbetween Maitland Blvsd. and 436 the world is so small

 

[Fenrir51]

This one and this one

Googled them up real fast, thats all i know atm.

 

[wee_man]

Famine I thought you were a lot more North West to be near Brands???

Roo: where do you live then to be so close to Goodwood. I'm only 45 minutes away?

 

[miata13B]

I got an idea. . . when we are all rich and retired we should just tour around with a race series to different tracks around the world. . . now if I only hit the 32 million lottery this week

 

[Roo]

wee_man: Fleet, in Hampshire. J4 of the M3. I'm about on hour from Goodwood, at a guess; in 2002 I went to the Festival of Speed and was able to go there and back home again by train every day.

Miata13b: Wahey! Real life Gran Turismo!

 

[Piglet]

Englishtown Raceway is about 30 minutes away from be. Sad that I can't go because my parents would never drive me.

 

[Ev0]

Mosport is about an hour or an hour and a half drive from where I live, otherwise there's very few race tracks in the Toronto area that I know of (there's Cayuga drag strip which is an hours drive south of Toronto, and a small oval track about an hour north)

 

[Cobraboy]

Pukekohe Raceway ~

Meremere Dragway ~ the home drag strip of the fastest street legal GTR in the world 👍 (or something like that).

 

[ExigeEvan]

Exige, the track you are near looks like a fun short track. Nothing to be embarassed by. I personally would love to have had my old miata and ran it around that track

Its great to watch the 2CV's huddle around the first corner