Ok, so we are going to get this new track here in Pittsburgh...looks good so far...what do you all think?



There was already an rally meet there for the WRX's. Check it out here...






Read more on what the Subaru guys thought here...
http://forums.i-club.com/forums/show...hreadid=214330

And read about the BeaverRun Raceway here:
http://www.beaverun.com/

 

Could be bigger, but looks interesting. All in all, I'd like to drive it sometime. Looks like a smooth transitioning track though


[Modified by Jason Franza, 4:08 PM 7/15/2002]

 

The karting track looks fuggen awesome.. the road course looks.. ok. rally-x OWNS!!! I can't wait to do another one.

-Dave, who likes the name.. he he beaver.

 

The road course looks boring.

 

hehe yeah I kinda agree. No sweepers. A bunch of small straights and simple corners, nothing complex or technical... but a pic doesn't usually do a track justice soo..

 

Wait until you do CMP, aka brake killing auto-x track

 

Give me a RWD car, 5 sets of tires, and a day at the "Vehicle Dynamics Area" and I'm happy.


[Modified by Reid, 11:38 AM 7/15/2002]

 

that was my subby wagon in the woods, i was down there last saturday, they let us on the road coarse and it was really nice,there was a street bike club there on the track. it would definitly be a fun place for a type r day.

 

It's hard to judge from the picture. Personally, I can't wait for the place to be open. The track in the picture is only the north track which is 1.53 miles long with 62 feet of elevation change. The South Track (which is suppose to be completed next year) is 2.1 miles long with 111 feet of elevation change. When the two are combined they will form a 3.6 mile, 36 foot wide, 25 turn road course with 123 feet of elevation change. Yes please! The best part is it's only about 3 hours from my house.


[Modified by krbobcat, 6:02 PM 7/15/2002]

 

You guys want to know the best part of this track. It is 4 minutes from my house. I am thinking about getting back into karting, this place will be killer on a shifter kart.

 

Yuppers, I'm looking forward to it too. Only 20 minutes from my place . In a couple of years this place should be pretty nice actually.

Brandon - Who can't wait to have some R meets in northern PA!

 

can you say like 110 ft elevation change if i recall correctly... whatevua... this is the one reason i'm sad i no longer live in da burgh. would have been ~20 min from my old place of work...



D

 

401-2001 Wheres abouts yous live man. (what city)

 

south track not complete:

The South Track, at approximately 2.0 miles in length, is situated on terrain that has more significant elevation changes.

While longer than the North Track, the straight sections are shorter and there are several complex corners which, combined with the elevation changes, make it the more "technical" of the two tracks.





[Modified by D, 12:34 AM 7/16/2002]

 

D didn't you live close to where I live now (if memory serves me right) ... I live in Wexford westernPA.

 

i grew up in the north hills, off ingormar rd in franklin park... lived on mt. wash before i moved down south.

wexford was my hood as gangsta kids in high school, pumping NWA, Easy E, chilling at the bowling alley on mcknight road, and driving from place to place like absolute lunatics.... the 'autobahn' was the strip on McKnight from TGI fridays to the light at highland (bah, that's not it, can't remember, near passavant) rd.... oh, what a fucktard i was.... er, am.

D


[Modified by D, 1:08 AM 7/16/2002]

 

ha, I used to go to that boling alley too, my sis lived in the apartment complex higher up the road next to it... and people still fly down that strip by TGIF.

 

that track is about 30min from my parents house which i am at visiting right now. looks nice, might have to stop by before i leave at see if i can let the 2.0 beast run loose on it for a little while

 

My Grandpa lives in Pittsburgh looks like I will be up at his house when it is complete "Road Trips" kick ***

 

south track looks nice. north track still looks boring D

 

!!!just because you can't autox!!!

 

CMP blows. You like it because you have torque, bastard

 

oooohhh...yeah...

I might just have to stay in Pittsburgh for this track to be totally complete.

I believe there are going to be a series of Auto-X events at Beaver Run starting the weekend of July 27-28.

People near the Pittsburgh area check the following sites for schedules for Solo II events:

http://www.steelcities-scca.org/
http://www.fyi.net/~nhscc/

 

they let us run the vehicle dynamics course as an autoX and the go-kart track on the 4th of july....the go-kart track is awesome, the R was having a good ole time on the mini roadcourse. I got some vids:

Go-kart track, afteri switched to street tires (i had kumhos on for my first runs, but the vid was whack)
http://www.sandmracing.com/videos/br...402-street.avi

AuotX lot, fantastic pavement, vid a bit blurry

http://www.sandmracing.com/videos/brautox070402.avi

Can't wait to tackle the road course, they JUST got pavement down for the north track....i want full course, might give VIR a run for it's money (and it's about an hour away, if that)

 

Aleph, I'm not sure why I can't see the vid's but they sure sound good. I'm getting a error when downloading the codec. What program are you using to view it?