April 11th Track Day at Gainesville Raceway

[insndrvr]

Sorry for the short notice, but our car club is hosting an Event a Gainesville Raceway. We were hoping that we would have enough people from the club, but it's not happening that way.

There are only going to be 20 cars allowed, track rules not ours, you can have additional drivers though. Right now we have 9 people already.

Here is how it's going to work, we have the track, Gainesville Raceway, for 8 hours on Sunday April 11th. It's going to be $100 for each car and first driver and $50 for each extra driver. You will get at least 1 hour of track time because we can run several cars at once. It's a smaller test course style track, but it's really nice pavement. Right now we have 9 people already.

Here is a shot of what the course looks like.
http://www.gainesvilleraceway.com/roadcourse1.jpg

This is the same course as seen in SloAccord's video, just minus all those cones and having to stop.

Here is a map.
http://www.gainesvilleraceway.com/RaceMap.jpg

The address is

Gainesville Raceway
11211 N. County Road 225
Gainesville, FL 32609

in case you want to look it up on mapquest.

I can be emailed at insndrvr@yahoo.com Sorry for the last minute notice.

[PseudoRealityX]

guys, this is through Gainesville's Internationl Motorsports. I know some of you have bugged me before about when the next GIR track day would take place... here you go.

[Matt Vassallo]

will you allow drift ????

[insndrvr]

I would allow anything out there, but the track owners are very particular about their grass. From what I understand, the last time Jay from Orlando went out there, he didn't even touch the grass and they kept telling him to tone it down. So you are welcome to come out and try, but I don't think it will be a very good venue for that.

[Matt Vassallo]

they are fags then.

[PseudoRealityX]

Originally posted by Mattback
they are fags then.


Boy, I wonder why drifting gets such a bad wrap...



grow up.

[quicksilver EK]

Originally posted by PseudoRealityX
Boy, I wonder why drifting gets such a bad wrap...



grow up.


i know right ......learn the fast way around the track ;) :lol:

[The Kyle]

the sad part is mattback is faster than 90% of the guys out there when he does grip

[PseudoRealityX]

maybe he should show up to the track day and show people his madd skillz y0...

:rolleyes:

[Leonard]

Originally posted by Mattback
they are fags then.


All they want is for their grass to be intact so that they don't get dirt runoff around the edges of the track which would cause it to deteriorate. They spent all that money on the track and they want to protect their investment... what a bunch of fags....



I don't get you mattback... sometime's you're all on the let's do this shit right and earn a decent reputation for drifting as a motorsport... and then you shit a big log like this out of your mouth.... What's the deal?

[Matt Vassallo]

Originally posted by Leonard
All they want is for their grass to be intact so that they don't get dirt runoff around the edges of the track which would cause it to deteriorate. They spent all that money on the track and they want to protect their investment... what a bunch of fags....



I don't get you mattback... sometime's you're all on the let's do this shit right and earn a decent reputation for drifting as a motorsport... and then you shit a big log like this out of your mouth.... What's the deal?

why don't they just have people pay for the grass at the end of the day like every other venue ?

[insndrvr]

Even if you had them pay for the grass, the grass is still torn up, and will take time to regrow. Then the dirt is exposed on the edges of the pavement and the next time it rains (and in FL when it rains is pours) the dirt will wash out from under the edges and the pavement will not be supported anymore. So yes, you can put the grass back, but over time, the ground under the edges of the pavement will be washed out. This is the most important part of the pavement, especially for those people who drift and spin tires right on the edge, this will tear things up further.


This problem could be solved by placing conctrete footers around the pavement, but this track was not designed for drifting, so we will just have to go by their rules.

Now if you come out and get it sideways in a couple corners but have it under control, they are not going to care, but if you try and drift every corner, they are gonna say something. That and when you spin, grass and dirt will get thrown onto the track which makes it suck for people who are trying to grip.

Enough said.

[Matt Vassallo]

i'll just stick to my 20 foot wide go kart track that is 2x as tight and wont worry about going in the grass because i dont' ;-)

[mofugga]

Originally posted by Mattback
i'll just stick to my 20 foot wide go kart track that is 2x as tight and wont worry about going in the grass because i dont' ;-)
good

[MrSideways]

Originally posted by Mattback
why don't they just have people pay for the grass at the end of the day like every other venue ?

What other Venue does this???? I've gone off at both Sebring an Roebling road taking alot of grass with me and No one every said a word to me.

I also went off at GIR on Saturday during the martin event in Bob's miata and took some grass with me and No one said a word to me. Apparently a more aggressive rear pad and a Very un aggressive front pad lead to rear brake lock up when the fronts fade. From a 100mph thats a wee bit scary!!! And resulted in some hardcore grass excitement.