Is this Road Atlanta?

[chuck]

so looking at this and jasons post (saw you at the bmw shop the other day BTW)...if you take the above picture and draw a line from the guys front axle straight to the right...whatever turn you want to call that...is that not going downhill in the about picture?? but its where the uphill starts at RA

that is throwing me off too...

and yes everyone...at a glance it does still look %789078907 like RA, but i'm still wondering...believe it or not there are esses downhill at other tracks, not just in the most famous photo spot at road atl....lol

so anyone have a guess at the date?? and what year did the xb's come out anyhow??

[speedminded]

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/diggler24/RoadAtlanta.jpg

so looking at this and jasons post (saw you at the bmw shop the other day BTW)...if you take the above picture and draw a line from the guys front axle straight to the right...whatever turn you want to call that...is that not going downhill in the about picture?? but its where the uphill starts at RA

that is throwing me off too...

and yes everyone...at a glance it does still look %789078907 like RA, but i'm still wondering...believe it or not there are esses downhill at other tracks, not just in the most famous photo spot at road atl....lol

so anyone have a guess at the date?? and what year did the xb's come out anyhow??

They leveled off the area at turn 4. Most of the old asphalt that got dug up when they rearranged the track (and i think everything they cut out at 12) was then put at the bottom of turn 4 and they filled over the top of it and repaved everything. I can't remember the exact amount but I am thinking it's in the range of several hundred truck loads of fill and debri is under where turn 4 is today...it was completed at the beginning of last year with a few of the earlier season events having to be postponed or canceled.

[Elbow]

They leveled off the area at turn 4. Most of the old asphalt that got dug up when they rearranged the track (and i think everything they cut out at 12) was then put at the bottom of turn 4 and they filled over the top of it and repaved everything. I can't remember the exact amount but I am thinking it's in the range of several hundred truck loads of fill and debri under where turn 4 is today...

Turn 4 as in the entry of the esses? I've never heard that, why would they have?

[speedminded]

Turn 4 as in the entry of the esses? I've never heard that, why would they have?

Motorcycles mostly. Remember the HUGE amount that was cut out of 12 to make that turn safer? They took the outside wall of 12 and moved it all the way back to the road in front of the helicopter pad. That concrete wall and all that dirt was all trucked over to turn 4 leveling out the low spot then they paved over it. This was all done AFTER they repaved the entire track otherwise they would have lost the account for the 2 largest motorcycle races.

That's why all the pics of the essess that are over a year old look so different.

[Elbow]

Motorcycles mostly. Remember the HUGE amount that was cut out of 12 to make that turn safer? They took the outside wall of 12 and moved it all the way back to the road in front of the helicopter pad. That concrete wall and all that dirt was all trucked over to turn 4 leveling out the low spot then they paved over it. This was all done AFTER they repaved the entire track otherwise they would have lost the account for the 2 largest motorcycle races.

That's why all the pics of the essess that are over a year old look so different.

Yeah I know the motorcycle additions, such a STUPID turn in the esses.

OK, so you mean they added it where they put the new chicane in there? That makes sense.

[speedminded]

Yeah I know the motorcycle additions, such a STUPID turn in the esses.

OK, so you mean they added it where they put the new chicane in there? That makes sense.

yeah, the entire pit lane and the hill on the outside of turn 12 was dug up and trucked over to the lowest part of the esses starting at turn 4 (technically the entire area between 4 and 5 was raised).

[chuck]

They leveled off the area at turn 4. Most of the old asphalt that got dug up when they rearranged the track (and i think everything they cut out at 12) was then put at the bottom of turn 4 and they filled over the top of it and repaved everything. I can't remember the exact amount but I am thinking it's in the range of several hundred truck loads of fill and debri is under where turn 4 is today...it was completed at the beginning of last year with a few of the earlier season events having to be postponed or canceled.

oooooooooooooook, now i get it...thanks man, didn't know any of that history...knew something was off.

guess now i can go with the masses... "duh, looks JUST LIKE forza!!!" ('cept it doesn't )