Shenandoah Circuit a.k.a. Concrete Death?

The deer story goes with the owner saying he is always trying to make Summit Point safer (from the RRW article).

The pictures of the Shenandoah circuit show otherwise - especially as the owner has said that he had moved all of the remaining CCS races of the year (July 17th race and later) to the Shenandoah circuit. Hence the "safety" conflict.

I didn't expect the owner to speak at the riders meeting. I did expect the owner to send someone to talk with the track day organizers to simply inform them of a potential problem - that's all. I don't think that is too much to ask. It costs no money to pull someone aside and say - "By the way, a kart racer was killed yesterday when he hit a deer - so tell the riders to keep an eye out."

 

Imagine the outrage if a track day rider had been killed, and the family was notified that the same thing had happened the day before, but no one was given a simple verbal warning to be aware of the potential problem.

 

if you are that concerned, stop racing.

what's next? a request for a deer flag?

 

They could glue antlers together and wave them around

 

All I'm saying is a simple one sentence warning at a riders meeting would show that someone, somewhere is concerned about rider safety. I remember a time when even the mad midget was raising a stink over track safety.

 

Damn. Airfense doesn't look like the answer.

Level the ground, gravel traps, move those walls out as far as possible and airfense may help.

Pucker factor all the way.

 

i agree with mongo that's all.

 

That track sucks.........

Why he got to be a Mad Midget?? What's up with the discrimination there Round boy???










P.S.- Ever find anything out on the little somethin-somethin we where talking about the other day???

give me a call

 

The old "look how big my dick is! how big is yours?" ploy to determine credibility is a really rather pathetic. How about a strong argument instead?

What the hell is "extra cautious"?!

I tend to think of the proper level of caution and due dilligence to be a binary sort of thing; either you're paying sufficent attention to the task at hand, or you're not - there's no being "extra cautious".

Deer have been reported at Summit for YEARS. Ergo, there has ALWAYS been the possibility that you may or may not run into one. If you have been waiting for an actual event before deciding to be "extra cautious", then you have failed to be sufficiently cautious everytime you went onto the track after those 100+ riders' meetings.

 

hence this remark.

 

IIRC, didn't a rider hit a deer about 6 or 7 years ago at the GNF? No problems for the rider fortunately, but I believe the Hall County LEO has to shoot Bambi.

As for the circuit in question, the walls would be of much greater concern to me than Bambi with an attitude.

 

I thought Opie (?) hit one in '02. It was earlier in the week. Didn't one jump over someone at Summit last season?

 

On video tape none the less! Although it was destroyed,

 

If a deer was seen crossing the track the day before, I'd rather know than not. Too much information never hurt or killed anyone. It beats not enough info any day, IMHO. But I'll concece I'm biased.

 

Yes, yes, but what about a moose??? Where are the statisitics on Moose related incidents???? What else are you keeping from us???

 

Thank you. You're the one guy I think about every time I drive through the front gate. And yours is the only opinion I care about.