Miata Mailing List: June 1998, Message #1155

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I ran Texas World several times before coming out to the west coast; it is a
great track - very wide with lots of run off. It would not eat cars like SP
did. It's quite easy to roll a car there as people go off sideways and get
caught in a rut in the dirt.  Essentially the twin of the Michigan 2 mile
superspeedway, the (new) road course runs inside the oval. However it has
nowhere near the character of either Sears Point or Laguna Seca - no
scenery, no elevation changes etc. Lap times would be about 1'30" 'ish vs.
approx 2 mins for LS.  Costs are much better than LS,  I seem to remember
spending $40-$90 for entire days driving there - i.e. stay out as long as
you like - no twenty minute sessions. I corded one set of brand new tires
and went through a lot of gas the first time. 
It can get a little warm and humid in summer, and somewhat damp in the
spring.  It is also 1900 miles from San Jose if anyone was thinking about
driving there. 

Craig

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Carter [SMTP:chris@mroadster.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 02, 1998 4:39 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE: Sears Point
> 
> >dans sez...
> >WOW!!!
> >
> >	Thank you Aaron!
> >
> >	Thank you everyone who attended.
> >
> >	What famous road course are we driving next week?
> >
> >/^\dans
> 
> good question.
> 
> for those of us in the middle coast, earlier this year, i proposed to
> aaron
> a track day at texas world speedway in college station
> < http://www.texasworldspeedway.com >, running the 1.8 mile road course
> < http://www.texasworldspeedway.com/images/18mile.gif >. we already have a
> dozen or so local members who said they'd go when i asked around march.
> please e-mail me if you're interested and i'll get my list going again and
> see if aaron and i can't get a central track day arranged. :-)
> 
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