Bruce:

 Is the car still eligible for any SCCA classes, or is it strictly club
racing?

" I Gotta Know"

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Marcham
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Jim:

Not sure.  A search says their web site is down for maintenance (it is a
club track so not very professional in many respects).  Lots of stuff on 24
hour motorcycle races that took place there but I don't see much about the
car races.

http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/Nelson.php

It's a fast track with a long back straight followed by a wicked tight
hairpin.  It is located in a swampy area so I guess it fogs in pretty
regularly, not the best for an all-night race.  I drove past Mike Tyson's
training camp (a pretty plain farm out on a back road south of Cleveland) on
my way there.

My memories of the place include terrible toilets (took me back to my Boy
Scout days of holding it for the whole weekend until my eyes turned brown),
bumps that ruined my shocks to the point that my car was bobbing up and down
on the start-finish straight to amusement of those viewing (so I went out
and paid $1000 for double adjustable Konis which I then only used a few more
times), and trying to use a different sway bar up front to get rid of my
understeer (I think I went to oversteer as a result).  With a relatively
slow car like mine I was supposed to be able to hold it wide open all the
way down the back straight despite a kink with bumps but I don't remember if
I ever got the confidence to do that (sliding sideways at 100 plus mph in a
stock car with a bolt-in rollcage on a narrow track was not my idea of a way
to have fun)...

Kinda like the downhill straight after Turn One at Bridgehampton my buddy
told me about.

I see the SCCA ran a 12 hour race there last July and did some paving
improvements last year so I guess it is still active as a car track.  The
bikes seem to like it too but then those guys seem to race anywhere they can
get track time.

I went there at least twice by myself back in '93 and '94 and once as a crew
person in '95, I think.

A very low-tech, casual kind of place.

Bruce


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Follett
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:21 PM
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Bruce:

 Do they still run the 24 hours of Nelson Ledges race?

Jim

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