Big change to the WGI bus stop!
04-25-2024, 11:40 AM
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04-25-2024, 02:26 PM
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I am am still trying to see exactly what problem they think they are solving here:
04-25-2024, 03:48 PM
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From my earlier post (#50), shared with me by a RTR friend::
”Using data collected from drivers’ mouthguards after the 2023 contest at Watkins Glen, the sanctioning body has determined to remove the steep curbing through the bus-stop chicane at the 2.45-mile road course.
Curb hopping triggered notable spikes in forces the drivers underwent each time they raced through the inner loop. Like Daytona, those curbs will be removed and replaced with contact pads. Different temporary strips - whether flat, an inch tall or otherwise - will be tested during a Goodyear tire test at the facility on June 26-27
Recessed rumble strips will also be implemented in the run-off section of Turn 1, an addition made in effort to limit drivers’ use of the extra pavement on driver-left of the 90-degree right-handed turn.”
”Using data collected from drivers’ mouthguards after the 2023 contest at Watkins Glen, the sanctioning body has determined to remove the steep curbing through the bus-stop chicane at the 2.45-mile road course.
Curb hopping triggered notable spikes in forces the drivers underwent each time they raced through the inner loop. Like Daytona, those curbs will be removed and replaced with contact pads. Different temporary strips - whether flat, an inch tall or otherwise - will be tested during a Goodyear tire test at the facility on June 26-27
Recessed rumble strips will also be implemented in the run-off section of Turn 1, an addition made in effort to limit drivers’ use of the extra pavement on driver-left of the 90-degree right-handed turn.”
Hmmmm.......
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04-25-2024, 03:54 PM
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04-25-2024, 03:58 PM
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Wow, NASCAR might start enforcing track limits? At COTA there weren't any.
04-25-2024, 04:10 PM
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Put the old ones back and leave it alone dammit.....
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04-26-2024, 12:15 PM
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04-26-2024, 12:25 PM
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If they don't want cars to the inside of those outside rumbles just move the fence out. That would certainly change the line. Weird that they would put something that could damage a car that isn't a wall or fence.
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04-26-2024, 01:02 PM
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04-26-2024, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dgrobs
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The more I hear the less I like.
The more I hear the less I like.
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Who cares, drive the track.
If you can hit the first one with your right side wheels and launch so that you don't come down on the second, that looks like a plan.
Or, if you can't (or don't want to) do that, the cleanest line anyway into the complex is to place the joint between the right side tire's sidewall and tread on the shortest part of the diamond of the second one.
If you can hit the first one with your right side wheels and launch so that you don't come down on the second, that looks like a plan.
Or, if you can't (or don't want to) do that, the cleanest line anyway into the complex is to place the joint between the right side tire's sidewall and tread on the shortest part of the diamond of the second one.
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