Nashville....Supercross??

Todd you wouldn't believe the amount of money I saved by painting the house myself----something like the cost of TWO sets of race tires

Roy

 

I will tell you where one is. Coming through the short shoot in the chicane. If you run off (or get slammed off) and go straight there are 2 huge mounds before and after the access road. They need to be smoothed out. That whole area needs a little leveling. There is plenty of room there but the terrain gives you little chance to kep it upright.

 

Mongo,
Like I said before, it looked ok in your Jeep. You should strap your ass to a motorcycle and try to work traffic, then maybe you will have a change of mind. There is no way in Hell the current configuration is acceptable. Yes, there is a smooth transition off of the banking, but what happens when you get off line trying to pass.

 

Don't do that, it was really exciting. T1 was dangerous, but only because of the multitude of lines you could take, plus the high speed, plus the committment required meant that you couldnt alter your line so easily. (in my opinion).

As I suggested in the other Nashville thread, I think more could be done with the cones at the end of the straight to limit the number of possible lines for T1. This would funnel the riders together instead of alowing the dive-bomb move.

I like the track, and can't wait to go back. Please keep that front straight.

 

IMHO the entry to turn one had the most potential for dangerous collisions due to the speed, different approaches and the bad transition (depending where you came off the banking). Use the pit lane for a front straight and maybe throw some hay bales up where a bike/rider might slide up the banking and it would be much safer.

Second most dangerous was the chicane entry. Sure, riding around by myself and taking my desired line into and through the first left-hander it wasn't too bad. When you start racing for position and thinking about diving up the inside on braking or trying to come around the outside you get some pretty divergent lines and speeds. Trying to go under a rider during my race I got pinched down much tighter than I wanted on the turn in and hit my left footpeg pretty hard where the concrete rose up on the inside of the turn. If it had been hard-mounted instead of having the give of a spring-loaded street peg, I probably would have gone down and taken out at least one other rider.

Third was the right/left onto the back straight. It was a highly tempting passing spot, but there just wasn't enough pavement on the inside of the left-hander.

I'm not too sure about the drain grates that were in run-off locations. Probably nothing you can do about them.

I really thought it was a pretty entertaining track in some ways, but it was really hard to make a safe, clean pass in traffic unless you could power around somebody on the banking or back straight.

 

Here is my 2 cents. I liked the idea of the layout. If you look at it it is a Daytona squeezed into TGPR. The only little kink is up onto the back straight and no banks. Other then that it is a similar layout.
I hit the ground right off the bat on Fri as well. Bum shoulder still hurting like crazy and it made for some sore racing on Sat and Sun. The track was new to most people and hard on rider and machine. Even though, I ran my best in the last race on Sun and thought I might have actually figured a couple of things out that helped. Overall I am ok with the facitlity.
Mongo, as for the only spots that concerned me, ( other then the transitions that my wife saw my butt fly in the air when I hit them) was the size of the LARGE gravel and rocks at the track edge. Going up onto the back straight and chicane areas. There are some ditch / dips in some potential run off areas around the chicane.

I knew Thurs afternoon when the first 3 people I saw had the same thing to say about the track " It's Interesting "

I hope everyone will keep the injured and hurt riders in their prayers and they heal soon.

Thomas #890

 

The difference here is that after the first race at VIR, everybody had huge smiles on their faces and everyone raved about how much they liked the track. VIR is a fun track to race at, Nashville was not fun for most of the racers, I think I only talked to 1 or 2 racers that said they liked it, my teammate Phil being one of them. I don't think that the track was a shithole, it just was not fun to race. If your customers are not happy racing at Nashville, why would you go back? I also want to say again how nice, friendly and professional I thought the track personell were, their hospitality was outstanding.

 

first impression was what the hell!!!!!!!!!
but after a few practice session
I ending up liking it alot
and found plenty of safe passing areas
the only issues I had was entering the back strait
you were headed for the wall and the transition exiting the back strait and were on the short shute but they fixed
that with they hay bales
I will go back
had a blast

 

All I have to say about Nashville is that track has evil demons hell bent on killing all two wheel riders.

There were so many crashes that even a certain tire vendor crashed his bike in the pits and may have broken his collar bone and cracked a few ribs. I saw him wearing a sling later that day.

If the tire vendors can't be safe there then how can the racers??

 

set up for what the huge slamming of your forks only to loss the traction in the rear for the bumps??? the place needs to rethunk.. the entry to the back straight chicaine needs to be opened up and a tad more run off there would be good. Using the pit lane will not fix the turn one thing just cause you to tighten it up even more causing more crashes There is little roam to miss a rider that falls down in ft of your bike....sure the track is not bad as long as things stay single file go ahead and say the pro riders do ok with the track....what about the rest of the field? How many red flags how many people hit bikes in the track how many people bent shifters bodywork ect. or back shifted going into the back chicaine???

 

Well said Steve. :up: When I heard that Larry Denning, Scott Harwell and Fritz Kling packed up and went home I knew I wasn't missing anything.

 

STOP THE WHINING!!!!!!!!!!! Please people. I had a great time this whole weekend! This track was fun to ride. I can`t wait to go back! As far as passing goes , you must have not seen the 750 superbike race on Sunday!(one of my funnest races ever) Change whatever you have to, in order to make it safe for everyone ,but please keep the transition into turn 1. It was a blast to go that fast in there and still have bunches of lines to choose from!NUF SAID.

 

For what its worth, that mirror there freaked me out a couple of times until I got used to it

 

I dont' know what trailer messed with Walt, but Buzz had a mirror on his trailer and when you went to turn to go down to the garage at that gate you thought another bike was coming around the other side...took me awhile to get used to it too.

 

Buzz's trailer at the corner had mirror on the door that was open.