Originally posted by oilleak
I really thought that would start a flame war. Since it didn't, I'll say that I've found Sunriders courses to be a lot of fun. Although they are not as fast as Sebring/Lakeland/FSF they do have a few things that the SCCA sites don't. namely the SPJC pad is almost clean enough to eat off of - virtually no marbles. Secondly, the courses include elements such as sweepers and decreasing radius corners that I haven't seen (so far) in the up and back nature of FSF/Lakeland/Sebring which lends itself more to sloloms and offset gates. I think it's helpful to see some of those other elements.
Good points, however their philosophy is to make the course as long (time-wise) as possible. This is great if you enjoy 60 seconds of plowing through slow, tight sweepers and hairpin turns. I think it is possible to make a GREAT 35-40 second course there, but I doubt they will ever even consider the idea, just as you will never get a short course at Ft Myers either. I have enjoyed the SR events in the past, but I have had enough of their course design.