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DR K is a new member of a Golf Club

Originally Posted by Potomac-Greg

For noobs, I compare the whole track-day thing to golf. It's a sport where perfection is the unreachable goal. You can hack around your home course (Summit Shenandoah being the equivalent of Haines Point Golf), and when possible you get to try another course. Tracks like Watkins Glen are like St. Andrews Golf Course. Each turn is like a hole on a golf course.

I'm not sure that this helps people to understand it, but it's the best I can do. The response is usually, "Oh, like NASCAR?"

[Vicegrip]

IMO WG is a simple track compared to SP. Banked corners and straight up reads. Turn settle into a straight of some sort turn settle. The Esses are a connected set of sorts but are flatout in almost any car. HP, a wallet and or guts is all you need to go fast at the Glen. Don't get me wrong it is a blast to drive but I never found it to be a highly technical track. Sp has longer drives to the green but WG has a lot more (blue) sandtraps.

[BMAN]

Originally Posted by mscheidt

What kind of suspension do you have on that thing?

Two way adjustable JRZ's.

[BMAN]

Originally Posted by Vicegrip

IMO WG is a simple track compared to SP.

I never found it to be a highly technical track. Sp has longer drives to the green but WG has a lot more (blue) sandtraps.

I agree. Summit is more technical and Watkins is pretty straight forward. But Watkins is "flatout" exciting to drive!

[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Vicegrip

IMO WG is a simple track compared to SP. Banked corners and straight up reads. Turn settle into a straight of some sort turn settle. The Esses are a connected set of sorts but are flatout in almost any car. HP, a wallet and or guts is all you need to go fast at the Glen. Don't get me wrong it is a blast to drive but I never found it to be a highly technical track. Sp has longer drives to the green but WG has a lot more (blue) sandtraps.

Talon showed me around last year. I blew a corner or something and said I had all weekend to learn it...he said everyone else would learn it by lunch.


I have photos of someone doing a track walk and you should see the banking in Turn 1 for instance. It's nuts. It's so wide you don't realize it's there....

[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Potomac-Greg

For noobs, I compare the whole track-day thing to golf. It's a sport where perfection is the unreachable goal. You can hack around your home course (Summit Shenandoah being the equivalent of Haines Point Golf), and when possible you get to try another course. Tracks like Watkins Glen are like St. Andrews Golf Course. Each turn is like a hole on a golf course.

I'm not sure that this helps people to understand it, but it's the best I can do. The response is usually, "Oh, like NASCAR?"

Now I don't understand it.

I'll stick with my baseball thing.

[Vicegrip]

Originally Posted by BMAN

I agree. Summit is more technical and Watkins is pretty straight forward. But Watkins is "flatout" exciting to drive!

Agreed! Even in my 912 it was fun and fast feeling. MO is a great mix of both fast and smart.

[BMAN]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

I have photos of someone doing a track walk and you should see the banking in Turn 1 for instance. It's nuts. It's so wide you don't realize it's there....

I attended the track walk Friday night. There's huge amount of camber in T1 and even more surprising to me was the amount on T11 (pictures would have been a good idea). Funny how most of the track and runoff areas look larger when you're standing on the surface, however, the track really is narrow exiting the esses onto the bridge straight. Explains why I didn't have the stones to fun it "flatout" with my shite tires.

[VaSteve]

Here's the photos.
http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...lk-photos.html

[tdatk]

Man I need to get back there.....