The New Kink at RA

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Was at Road America today with the local Porsche club, and had a chance to see the new chicane for the bikes.  Cars are still using the old layout, but for the bikes there is this chicane that is basically a hard left turn after you exit the carousel, before the kink.  You make the left, and then it curves around jug-handle-style to the right,  and dumps you out onto the back straight.   :-/

So now it's going to be a drag race, rather than "who has the biggest cajones" through the kink.  Dang - one less place to make up some time.  

I'm gonna miss the kink.  Long live the kink.

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

I'm gonna miss the kink.  Long live the kink.

Me too.   :'(

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Riding is dangerous enough without walls being in the run-off area. I welcome the change and look forward to trying it in a few weeks.

[Super_KC124]

Fastest I've ever drug a knee! :o :o

[Super Dave]

Fastest I've ever drug a knee! :o :o

Go, young man, to Brainerd...
 :o

I'm happy to see the kink go.  It was terrible that motorcycle racers had to go so fast with so much risk.  My take is that the people at Road America has such a lack of concern for the safety of motorcycle racers.  What'd it take...20 years?  You know what it's like trying to get an answer out of a friend/instructor after he concussed himself in the KINK?  

[Eddie#200]

Fastest I've ever drug a knee! :o :o

Kevin you need to come to C-BIR!   Brainerd calls to you! ;D

[tshort]

Riding is dangerous enough without walls being in the run-off area. I welcome the change and look forward to trying it in a few weeks.

Why?  What are you doing there in a few weeks?  Nesba? ::) ;D ;D  (...p i s s e s me off...)

[Dawn]

Why?  What are you doing there in a few weeks?  Nesba? ::) ;D ;D  (...p i s s e s me off...)

Nope, Sportbike Track Time.

Dawn   ;)

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Why?  What are you doing there in a few weeks?  Nesba? ::) ;D ;D  (...p i s s e s me off...)

Yep! I'll be at Road America June 11 with Sportbike Track Time and June 12th with NESBA.

Sportbike Track Time has Road America August 5-6
NESBA has Road America again October 11-12.

Hmm, wondor who will snatch the vacancy left by CCS.  ;D ::) :P

[Jeff]

Absolutely agree with SD on this...  Road A is a pretty safe track EXCEPT for the kink.  Sure, it's cool to drag knee at that speed, but at what cost?

I slid my front out there last year, and thank GOD that it caught back up.  

Walls suck...

[R6Chris760]

I'm glad to see the kink go, I bounced off the wall once and was one of the few lucky ones to walk away from it with only bruises and a fractured foot.
The guy that did it before me took a helicopter ride.

Chris

[stumpy]

I am one of the happy one's that the kink is bye bye. Although it could have been alot worse, thank god the air fence was there. I do have a chipped elbow out of the deal but it just adds to my character, plus chicks dig it ;D