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To: SI Bob who wrote (573)	7/26/2000 4:48:21 PM
From: OldAIMGuy	Respond to of 5776

Hi Bob, Sounds like a more technical track than RA. More like Mid-Ohio or maybe Graten in Michigan. RA is for big horsepower cars generally. It is a place to go really FAST - as fast as the car will run. Only the carousel turn is a part throttle type. It's absolutely huge. You can change radio stations, call the wife and still have time to set up for the exit. I didn't know your track had a "Kink" corner as well. Our KINK is just that, a slight right bend in the road. It's named for all the cars that get kinks in them exiting the turn! Lots of serious crashes there as the speeds are so high. It's visually challenging. You're in the wide open spaces descending through the carousel turn to the right. It straightens out for a short squirt before the Kink to the right. As soon as you pass the apex of the Kink you're entering a tree lined stretch. It is shady with the trees nearly completing a canopy over the roadway. It "feels" narrow even though it's no different than any where else on the track. It's this "feeling" of the roadway narrowing that tricks the senses. There's a hill on the right (concrete at the base) and just woods on the left. A country road. Where people get into trouble here comes from two actions. One is getting there at what feels to be too hot and lifting off the gas (trailing throttle oversteer). This immediately sends you head first into the concrete on the right hand side. Usually to add insult to the injury you then bounce off and come in backwards about 50 yards further down the concrete. I watched a Mustang GT 350 do this and it ended up about 4 feet shorter for the exercise. The second mistake is that the car is actually going too fast for the Kink and you go off on rather limited runoff on the left. Dropping a wheel off the pavement at near 100 MPH can have serious consequences. Thanks for the track tour! Best regards, Tom