Revised 2004 Schedule/New Region

[stumpy]

OMG!!! You are so funny steve-o. Are you going to the first Heartland?? I just caught that today. Wasn't on the schedule for Midwest. Had to hit redial and call CCS AGAIN to get the new scoop. They keep us on are toes I tell ya. It's around 17hrs away but we're up to are noses in snow! ;D right now it sounds gggrrrreeaaatt!


StUmPy

[dylanfan53]

Hey all, I was just going over the "new" 2004 schedule.

The good news for us is the addition of Grattan at only about 7 hours away!  Looks like a fun year is in the works.

In my effort to waste away a Tuesday, I did up a cheat sheet of the MW/GP/GL/N regions schedules combined if anyone wants a copy.  It's in excel.

Heather

Good news for me too since it's only about 2 hrs. away.  Only one weekend but it's a start. I suppose we'll see a bunch of WERA folks up there. ;D

[Steviebee]

ok Nelson Lodges web site sucks!  Or is it just me ?
Does anyone have an address for them ?

I dont know yet about Heartland.  Its 8 hours from me.

[Nate R]

from what I've heard, there are some real problems with that track. But, that's only hearsay.

[GSXR RACER MIKE]

     Gratten is like a wanna-be Barber, in being a paved roller coaster. They run that track normally clockwise, but do run it counter-clockwise too. I have only been there once (clockwise) and it was definately unique to tracks here in the Midwest. They brag about having almost every possible road racing situation in 1 track. Decreasing and increasing radius turns, blind turns, rises and drops, banked/off camber/and flat turns, sweepers and hair pins, slow and fast sections, and most of these situations are in combination with at least one of the others.

     The track was a little tricky and had some surface issues when I was there in the late 90's, but it definately keeps you challenged for the most part.

[am_#65_john_deere]

nelson ledges,state rt 305, garretsville, ohio,44231.

phone# 216-548-8551.

hope that helps , steve
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[AK191]

Nelson Ledges is a little "hole-in-the-wall" track compare to what you guys are used to. It wasn't updated in a long time and kind of primitive, so its easy to hate the facilities and (previous) management.
Since new manager (Scott) took it over from John, the has been alot of improvments.
The track itself is bumpy, kind of narrow, but very FAST and fun layout. Not sure how easy to learn. It was my home track and I rode it for 2 years before venturing out to other tracks.
In its "hey day" they used to run 24hr races there, so there is alot of following and old timers have this love/hate thing for the track.
If you listen to WERA crowd, you'll hate it before you even give it a chance, but local Fasttrack ppl love it.

[Steviebee]

thanks  
Hey Nelson is only 5.5 hours from me !!  COOOL

[Jeff]

Isn't there some new track in IL?  Why haven't we heard anything of it?

Nelson's is like ~500mi for me, so I'm thinking 'no'...  Then again, I'm whining about MAM and HPT as well, figuring I'm not going to go to them either...  Guess there goes my shot at a # plate...

Back on the old schedule, when HPT was not the first MW weekend, I thought I'd be able to make all weekends, but now, I don't think so...  We'll see...

For now, it's the short 10 mile jaunt to the ice every weekend.  I can deal with that!  And the new CRF-450?  An absolute dream machine...

[SliderPhoto]

Heather can you send it my way too? Thanks!
jackb@sliderphoto.com
Are the latest dates on the CCS site? Where did you get the dates from?

TIA

[SliderPhoto]

Isn't there some new track in IL?  Why haven't we heard anything of it?

Autobahn. It's more of a country club type thing. Not sure if racing will ever be allowed there but there are some track days scheduled in September. They haven't broken ground yet.

[StumpysWife]

Latest schedule is on the CCS site:  
http://www.formulausa.com/forms/schedule2004.pdf

I'll email ya!

Heather