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Greenville, SC is worth considering. I moved here from Portland, OR after moving there from OC where I grew up. All within less than 5 hours Greenville has pretty much the same track access as ATL:
Road Atlanta - 1.5 hours VIR - 4 hours Atlanta Motorsports Park - 2.5 hours Roebling Road - 4 hours Carolina Motorsports Park - 2.5 hours Barber 4.5 - hours There is more if you are willing to expand outside of a 5 hour drive. Plus we have a kick ass BMW scene here with the Performance Center, BMW Manufacturing, and the BMW CCA Foundation all in our backyard. Our BMW CCA club also gets to use the huge wet skid pad at the Michelin Proving Grounds just south of Greenville several times a year which is always a lot of fun. And… the cost of living here versus the west coast is almost unbelievably low. But, property values are increasing since Greenville is growing so much, so it is a great time to invest in a home/property. The only thing that gets me is the freakin humidity in the summer… it makes it feel so hot… I pretty much just live at the pool from June-Sept lol. |
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Chris, You looking at this all wrong. You need two places. The first is in Nurburg. Second.......who cares.
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And I forgot to include Miller Motorsports Park (or whatever it's called now) up near SLC. Great track and facility.
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The availability of a truly local track is underrated IMO. I wouldn't want to live in a metro without one, even a crappy one, if I were choosing based on track availability. The occasional ability to just drop in on the track withuot it being a big weekend trip is wonderful. t.
Here in STL, I can knock off work early on a tuesday and and do three sessions in an afternoon if I feel like it. That's why Hotlanta is high up the list for me (for fair weather locations) and Dallas, Austin and Houston would be as well (MSR's, COTA) even though the distance to other tracks migth be worse (ATL isn't too bad, but Houston and Dallas and Austin are in TX where everything is far away from everything else)
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I don't entirely agree with this. Dallas, Houston, and Austin are all within 4 hours of each other. If you are saying that this trifecta of cities is not near anything else, you're mostly correct.
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Las Vegas Motor Speedway Spring Mountain Motorsport Ranch Chuckwalla Valley Raceway Thermal Club Auto Club Speedway Willow Springs/Streets of Willow Buttonwillow Raceway And while we can all joke about the heat, it REALLY is a dry heat. I've been there a few times in July and it's hot, but not intolerable. I wouldn't track during the July-September time frame due to the extreme heat and the stress it puts on the body and car, but outside of that? All the tracks locally are open 12 months a year.
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On the West coast, you want elevation changes you’ll have to go to the NorCal tracks, Laguna, Thunderhill, and Sears all have some real elevation changes. Those tracks are a full day’s drive from So Cal and probably just as far from Las Vegas, but it’s worth it.
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Buy some land in the middle of po dunk no-where not in California and build your own track.. call it "field of beams".. if you build it, they will come..
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Midwestern tracks are shit for elevation change. Road America is really the only one with anything substantial, and it's limited to the straight sections. Grattan has a little bit of elevation but it's such a technical track that it feels like they just did the elevation to make the whole track feel like "hard mode". I drove it once, years ago, in my S2000 and have very little desire to go back.
I can't say Texas is really any better. COTA of course has the hilarious huge uphill at the end of the main straight, but is otherwise pretty much flat. MSR Cresson has a little bit of elevation change but not enough for me to classify it as more difficult as a result.
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Within 8-10 hours my Lemons team is planning on taking out car to Colorado and Kansas. Tulsa OK isn’t too far either
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