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Track Review: Monticello Motor Club
I put together a write-up on Monticello here: http://www.onehotlap.com/2011/12/one...llo-motor.html. Hope you enjoy it. If you have some feedback on the track, please send it along. Rumors are, they may allow clubs back on it next year.
"Monticello is a highly technical track and it offers every turn imaginable: increasing radius, decreasing radius, high speed sweepers, a mostly blind high-speed left turn, a carousel, a hairpin, a double-apex turn that tortured even the most advanced drivers, a classic 90, a magic mushroom (don’t ask, just go on with your trip!), a tight switchback that only autocrossers have seen before, and a long straight comparable in top speed to Watkins Glen’s back straight"
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I was looking at getting up there sometime this spring. Either in the E46 or. Flying up and doing the V school they offer.
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My first ever HPDE was at Monticello a year and a half ago with NASA/PDA. I was a newbie, and I was in my then-current E60 M5, but it was a blast. Very high speed and many interesting aspects to the track. I wish I could go back now that I have the M3 and more experience! I do wonder, though, how these types of tracks stay alive with only private memberships in this economy. I've heard fantastic things about Spring Mountain in Nevada and all the amenities it has to offer, and you could perhaps justify its membership fees based on all those extras, but Monticello was nowhere near as developed when I saw it last year...
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Word is that they closed it to outside, non-member "riff-raff" (most of us) last year when then-current members complained that exclusivity was being lost. I think now you either have to be a member, be an approved guest of a member, or get a special invite to gain access.
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