Everett Ogilvie

This weekend could prove interesting as NASCAR runs its first ever race at Road America (the Nationwide cars) with Ron Fellows and quite a few other road course drivers in the race. Additionally, the Cup cars are at Infineon, and Jan Magnussen and Mattias Ekstrom (German touring car Champion, DTM) will be there.

Personally, I can't wait to see how the Nationwide cars handle Road America, and I watch every televised race from there that I can - love that track and hope to get on it someday. I also can't wait to see how Jan and Mattias do at Infineon.

2000BSME

feel free to post some additional information about times and whatnot. I can't record enough racing for my appetite.

B-ras

tvracer<dot>com says:

Nationwide at RA coverage starts 3pm ET Sat on ESPN2

Cup at Sonoma 2pm ET on TNT


Thanks for the post, Everett; I had no idea about the RA race. That should be interesting. I wonder why they split the two series between road courses on opposite coasts on the same weekend? Surely there are a number of guys who would've liked to run both.

Wren

I'm just hoping they don't destroy the track before we have to race the June Sprints there next week.

John Shiels

thanks for heads up should be cool to see.

Everett Ogilvie

I agree - not sure why they are doing it the same weekend -for sure some of the guys want to do both, and indeed a few of them are (Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski, Paul Menard) - that means lots of traveling between tracks.

B-ras

Big budgets, FTW! I guess the logistical challenges really only prevent the one-off ringers from doing both.

2000BSME

thanks, I found the ra event, but I couldn't locate the tnt event. Recorder set.

BrianCunningham

more road courses the better

this should be good for Road America

B-ras

Somehow I'd been reading the Nationwide venue as Road Atlanta the whole time.

Not quite as far to travel, I suppose, but still.

Todd Z

I will be at RA tomorrow and Saturday. Lap one turn five should be interesting. Boris said during testing was hitting 180 at the crest of the hill coming into five and then a 45mph apex speed at five. I am not a Nascar fan or expert but something tells me 36 heavy cars at 170-180 needing to scrub off that much speed spells something bad. keeping in mind that many of the drivers are not seasoned at RA. I have heard rumors that if this weekend is a sucess next year sprint cup will be at RA.

If there is any damge from the cars RA will have it fixed for the sprints and our event following the sprints.

AU N EGL

DVR Set.

AU N EGL

bring the Camera Todd. We are expecting pictures.

Wren

I wonder how long it takes to fix a stock car sized hole in the catch fence at The Kink?

How fast were the cars lapping. We did a 2:09.xxx at the Cat National and hope to run 7's at the sprints.

96CollectorSport

Looks like practice times are in the 2.15.xx range. Similar times as Speed GT cars.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/96608644.html

Here's a list of times from Thursday practice, some framilar names Ron Fellows, Jacques Villeneuve.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/96608644.html

Everett Ogilvie

Interesting article about Carl improving his line and his time when the corner worker gave advice.

What do Speed GT cars weigh?

Racer-38

I also tape just about every race thats telecast. I've posted this link before, but this is the best site to find out where/when races are being aired.:

www.racefantv.com

Todd Benne

For this being a Corvette forum and road racing fans, you guys have completely over looked that the SCCA Pro Trans-Am series is at Road America this weekend as well with 19 cars in the field. After two practice sessions completed today, Vettes are all over the top five in times running 8-10 seconds a lap faster than the Nationwide cars.

joemoia

WC corvette LS2 - 3050 lb base weight (7400 max RPM)

WC corvette LS3 - 2950 lb base weight (6500 max RPM)

Todd Benne

My bad, Trans-Am cars are 8-10 mph faster than Nationwide which equates to about 22 seconds per lap faster.