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Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 8:55 am
by itrsteez
Haven't seen this posted elsewhere, for the sake of having a new thread to look at I figured it could of been left out of the BS thread. It's worth a read, probably not anything you didn't already know.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10 ... es-feature
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 5:21 pm
by coolhandluke
Sweet!
I have ridden on two and tracked on one. Not bad!
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 5:33 pm
by itrsteez
Road Atlanta will be in december, the Glen is on a short list for next year hopefully.
If I ever get a windfall of money I'll get a condo at VIR and die there.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 7:16 pm
by coolhandluke
Im not sure Im ready to handle Road Atlanta. I will put it into consideration when November rolls around.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 9:35 pm
by itrsteez
coolhandluke wrote:Im not sure Im ready to handle Road Atlanta. I will put it into consideration when November rolls around.
Yeah I've been studying it, there are a few blind corners that looked pretty gnarly. But the way I look at it the more challenging tracks you drive the better you'll be able to tear through cmp
(which I'd like to go back to this year but it's looking unlikely)
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 11:31 pm
by Doespike
Cool article...definitely a list to scratch off
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 11:39 pm
by itrsteez
Not sure how to tackle the two california ones
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 11:49 pm
by Doespike
Road tRip
There's a few tracks out west I'd love to hit..
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 11:55 pm
by itrsteez
Doespike wrote:Road tRip
There's a few tracks out west I'd love to hit..
that'd be insane, well not really considering people do it for expo. If I was to do it I'd prefer it would be to knock out at least 2 tracks, one would have to be Laguna. Either way it's all crap talk, there's plenty of stuff on this side to cross off.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 12:45 am
by Doespike
Well, I've only put 5k miles on 309 so far this year...needs much more
I'd like to hit Miller on the way there or back. Definitely a bucket list tRip to west coast.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 6:55 pm
by coolhandluke
Doespike wrote:Road tRip
There's a few tracks out west I'd love to hit..
Erik and I have been talking about this. As we get older, we will have more time, money, and vacation days. Collectively we could start doing a once a year trip to hit up tracks.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 7:24 pm
by Doespike
coolhandluke wrote:Doespike wrote:Road tRip
There's a few tracks out west I'd love to hit..
Erik and I have been talking about this. As we get older, we will have more time, money, and vacation days. Collectively we could start doing a once a year trip to hit up tracks.
I'm in. As we get older but before family starts sprouting.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 8:34 pm
by itrsteez
Doespike wrote:I'm in. As we get older but before family starts sprouting.
exactly, then everybody is fucked.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 8:37 pm
by Doespike
haha trufe. Our family reunion was today...was shootin the bull with one cousin while watching our other cousins chase their ankle-biters around in the dirt/mud....he asks "does this make you think about birth control?"
Guess yoo had to be there..
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 8:41 pm
by Erik95LS
itrsteez wrote:Doespike wrote:I'm in. As we get older but before family starts sprouting.
exactly, then everybody is fucked.
just gotta make that a part of what your family is
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 8:55 pm
by itrsteez
I wonder how not proud my kids would be after dragging them to events for 10 years and sleeping in a camper to find out I was just doing HPDE's
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 9:22 pm
by Erik95LS
itrsteez wrote:I wonder how not proud my kids would be after dragging them to events for 10 years and sleeping in a camper to find out I was just doing HPDE's
haha don't have to ONLY do DEs for that long
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 9:28 pm
by coolhandluke
Erik95LS wrote:itrsteez wrote:I wonder how not proud my kids would be after dragging them to events for 10 years and sleeping in a camper to find out I was just doing HPDE's
haha don't have to ONLY do DEs for that long
This is where Andy chimes in.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 9:32 pm
by Doespike
....or we could just start giving out the trophies..
jk
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 9:49 pm
by coolhandluke
Doespike wrote:....or we could just start giving out the trophies..
jk
Well its funny because Andy, Patrick, and myself had a conversation today over lunch about kids at the track.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 10:19 pm
by Hooch'n
itrsteez wrote:I wonder how not proud my kids would be after dragging them to events for 10 years and sleeping in a camper to find out I was just doing HPDE's
nothing wrong with HPDE's duder....
racing isn't for everyone -- but hpde's let you get the "led" out.
I only just started taking my times --- hpde's are fun, racing is political and focused.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 10:28 pm
by itrsteez
Hooch'n wrote:itrsteez wrote:I wonder how not proud my kids would be after dragging them to events for 10 years and sleeping in a camper to find out I was just doing HPDE's
nothing wrong with HPDE's duder....
racing isn't for everyone -- but hpde's let you get the "led" out.
I only just started taking my times --- hpde's are fun, racing is political and focused.
wasn't knocking them, just making a joke about the kids finding out what I wasn't going to win anything. I don't have a competitive bone in my body (hence being a skateboarder for 15 years) so DE's are aok with me.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 12:29 am
by Doespike
Sebring would be a goot trip..
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 11:46 am
by coolhandluke
I want to make it down there.
Re: Car & Driver Best 6 Road Courses In America
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 1:06 pm
by Willard
Road Atlanta = Tracked (x2) (pre and post track change)
Sears Point = Ridden around
VIR = Tracked (xmany... F, S, N)
WG = Tracked (x2)
Laguna Seca = Tracked (x1)
Road America = Ridden around