So this Vegas track looks like it's really something

[rabbit]

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[rabbit]

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[rabbit]

More on the Champ Car website.

[chop456]

Where exactly is the racing line through here? By the curve in that curbing, I'm guessing that ain't it. If you want to break the car to save 1/10th, have at it. :thumbup:
http://www.champcarworldseries.com/Content/Photos/2007/By400/20070406P_0077.jpg

[Spicoli]

:eek:

http://i12.tinypic.com/4551am8.jpg


waaah.

[Chief]

That must be the chicane on the back part of the track, after last turn, before pit entrance. Keeps speeds down a bit on front straight. Not the bump referenced after the underpass by CCWS haters on a unknown web forum that say high LV union costs to grind the bump will suck the event down with it $$$wise. Dolts.

[Brian_R]

This is what happens when you have too many magicians near a racetrack... yes Lance Burton, I'm talking to you. :eek:

[rabbit]

Sez SeaBass:


"Just wait until this track rubbers in more, it's going to be really fast for a street circuit. It just goes to show you how good these tracks can be when they spend the money to do it right. This track sets a new standard for street circuits. It's smooth, wide, has good grip and good runoff in the corners.

“As the track rubbers in I would expect us to go another two seconds quicker tomorrow morning and maybe another second faster still in qualifying tomorrow.”

[RTKar]

Where exactly is the racing line through here? By the curve in that curbing, I'm guessing that ain't it. If you want to break the car to save 1/10th, have at it. :thumbup:
http://www.champcarworldseries.com/Content/Photos/2007/By400/20070406P_0077.jpg


Like shots from the great European circuits in the 60's.

One of my biggest complaints of temp courses is they aren't consistently fast enough, too narrow and certainly not "race'y" enough. Wonder how the new under trays are holding up though?

[pchall]

This race is going to be fantastic. Wish I was there. :cry:

[Wally]

So you on site guys, did they grind the jump or is that slated for tonight?

Wow this place is really quiet for a first race weekend??

[G.]

According to Kneifel in Racer, , the surface between T2 and T3 is rough, and they cannot do anything about it this year.

Is that where they are getting launched from?

(anyone know why I am getting Racer and some IndyCar magazine for free? What the hell did I sign up for?)

[devilmaster]

(anyone know why I am getting Racer and some IndyCar magazine for free? What the hell did I sign up for?)

And people say that us complainers are the irl lovers.... and here we have a guy who gets their mag! Burn him! ;) :D

[grungex]

So you on site guys, did they grind the jump or is that slated for tonight?


A JOB WORTH DOING

Is worth doing well. That was already the case at the Vegas Grand Prix, where the 2.44 mile street circuit drew rave reviews from Champ Car and Champ Car Atlantic drivers yesterday . . . all but for some concerns about the spectacular jump over the crest of a hill immediately following the ultra-quick Turn Eleven chicane. The solution? Not just a standard grinding down/reprofiling of the hill crest. The solution, Vegas style, was to completely dig-up the street (down to the bare ground) and resurface the section overnight.

"What else can you say about what they've done here?" said Las Vegas resident Paul Tracy. "We had a problem with the track. They didn't just try to Band-Aid it and fix it. They tore the whole intersection out last night and repaved the intersection, that's great."

Not that Tracy was 100% happy with the fix . . . "It (the bump) is not there any more," he quipped. "I think that was one of the advantages I had yesterday, was that big bump. I really attacked it yesterday and made a lot of time there. Now there is no bump.”

SpeedTV (http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/champcar/36534/)

[G.]

And people say that us complainers are the irl lovers.... and here we have a guy who gets their mag! Burn him! ;) :DI agree!!!!

In fact, I have a brand-new POS magazine, never cracked opened, to start the fire with. Burn bastage, burn!:flame:

[Gangrel]

(anyone know why I am getting Racer and some IndyCar magazine for free? What the hell did I sign up for?)


LOL Racer sent me a subscription offer. I stuffed the postage-paid envelope as heavy as I could with cardboard, topped off with the uncompleted subscription form with some choice 4-letter words written all over it in Sharpie. Wonder if they got the message. :D

[Andrew Longman]

So you on site guys, did they grind the jump or is that slated for tonight?

Wow this place is really quiet for a first race weekend??

I'm not there but those "jump" shot are at the chicane before T11. If you don't short the chicane you don't get launched.

[JohnHKart]

LOL Racer sent me a subscription offer. I stuffed the postage-paid envelope as heavy as I could with cardboard, topped off with the uncompleted subscription form with some choice 4-letter words written all over it in Sharpie. Wonder if they got the message. :D

I was a big Racer fan, but I've been done for about 6 years. When John Zimmerman was no longer editor I was no longer into it. I just could not care less about Racer at this point. I bet they don't even have those cool Rick Graves photo layouts anymore (which have been copied by tons of other people, but Rick was the original, what's that line about imitation and flattery?)

JH