Atlanta Motorsports Park

Fair enough. But a yard sale would have built up some extra funds.

 

AHRMA has an event scheduled April 20-22. Not advertising for AHRMA, but is this a realistic date???
Saw on the website that HFD1 is the official cycle support shop. Congrats to Huffdaddy!!!
Hope this place rolls and WERA can get some dates next year.

 

Have you seen/looked at the run off room? Some of the turns you go off at, you drop off into what looks like a retention pond. Or they're gonna put a guardrail up, at which point it looks awful close to the track.

I might go by there this week and take some pics if I can get in.

Somebody posted this on another forum...

 

Eh, I would just be happy with having more opportunities to run Road Atlanta. Not only races, but track days too.......while always using the same configuration. It is by far my favorite track.

 

i still find it interesting that one of the stipulations to AMP getting approval to be built was "no racing". Interesting indeed.

 

:up:

 

News to me that I would be listed as the cycle shop We did try to strike a deal but...as always did not reach a deal. Would like to strike a deal for the bikes but it was clear bikes were not the going to be a bread winner and they could not say bikes were going to be on the track. It was more of a sale of garage space vs what we could do for a money making deal. They wanted all the space rented before the track is built. A shop next to me has rented space and a deal could still be made when the track is up and they can commit to a motorcycle plan for me. The track use was the deal killer...cars have the track and if a spot is open the bikes could run maybe....

 

I rode by AMP yesterday and they have a long way to go before there will be any racing there. There is a completed garage but lots of dirt/mud and gravel, and paving in January and February in north Ga is going to be tough. There is a layer of asphalt on the portion of the track that you can see from the road but I don't think the April race will happen based on what I could see. I would love to have a race track so close to home but it doesn't sound very bike friendly so far.

 

Kind of sounds as if no one will be racing there soon if ever. Still wonder why AHRMA dropped their Tally date a few years back. I'm sure there are good reasons that I am not privy too.

 

Partly that, but we actually ran Tally and Barber back to back once or twice and some people loved it. No real reason we don't go to Tally other than trying to be fair about distributing the schedule around the country to the extent possible. There are members all over and they'd all like to have a round close to home. Because of the longer racing season down south, it would be easy and convenient to load up the South with races. But there is a real effort made not to do that. It would be easier to spead the wealth if not for the fact that so many states, for example my home state of KY, don't have even one suitable road course.

 

Since Atlanta has next to no chance of making the schedule, Tally would be a relatively close replacement.

 

Sean, can you elaborate? I'm guessing we wont be racing there due to safety issues?
Something else?

 

Kevin said it ain't safe.

 

AHRMA just cancelled it's date at AMP.

Link to news release:
http://dev.ahrma.org/?p=2856

 

and it appears AMP is STILL using the weather as an excuse? WTF? You couldnt have asked for much better weather over the last 3 months.