minitech

If relocating from the north where there is no driving for the season where would be the best place near a quality year round track. Track being most important, jobs and city near the track next important.

AU N EGL

Sebring Fl live and work in Tampa / St Pete FL area

Even here in the Carolinas, we get hit with snow, rain and ice, Mid to mid Feb.

Track time starts mid to early Feb, depending on weather and ends early Dec.

But then again From most of North Carolina, there are a dozen tracks within 8 hours

waddisme

I live in the Foothills of NC. Vir is 2 1/2 hrs away, Road Atl is 3 1/2, Lowes is less than an hour and CMP is around 3 for me. Always somewhere to go track if car is running. Mountains are an hour away, ocean is 4 hours. Works out pretty good. Actually we have about 6" of snow right now. Best one we have had in 5 years. Check it out.

Red Gump

track is active year round. we are 90ish minutes from tampa and orlando, 60 from lakeland and 2 hours from lauderdale. not much for work here unless you own a small business or are a professional of some sort.

if you don't like small towns, might want to consider something near moroso or homestead.

drivinhard

go to fla. we've already got too many yankee transplants in atlanta

bobmoore2

California! Especially southern California.

Near Los Angeles, we have Willows Springs big track, Streets of Willow Springs (both directions), Horse Thief Mile (both directions), California Speedway (with the inner road track and the road oval configurations), and Buttonwillow (with several configurations and both directions). Spring Mountain and Las Vegas Motor Speedway are about 5 hours away also. When you count all the different configurations/directions, we have about a dozen tracks within 2 1/2 hours of L.A. All of these tracks remain open year-round, although some track days get rained on during the winter.

Northern California has Thunderhill (with a couple configurations and a reverse direction occasionally), Laguna Seca, Infineon/Sears Point, and Buttonwillow (see above). All of these are within 3 hours of the Bay Area. They also remain open all year, though rain days are more common during winter months than for the So Cal tracks.

Racer-38

Duluth georgia (40 minutes north of atlanta):

Road atlanta 45 minutes
Roebling Road 3.5 hrs
daytona 5hrs
sebring 7 hrs
VIR 5hrs
CMP 4hrs
Barber 2 hrs
PBIR 9hrs
Mid ohio 9hrs
Homestead>>>far, far away

Racing year round.....you could literally race in some sanctioned body everyweekend of the year and never be more then 5 hours from your house.

varkwso

Augusta Georgia

2 hours to CMP, Roebling, Rd ATL
3 Hours to Charlotte

4 hours Rockingham, Barber

5 hours to VIR

6 hours to Daytona

8 hours to Mid Ohio & Summit

10 hours to Sebring, NJMP, and the northeast tracks

Cost of living is dirt cheap, there is a large contingent of yankees already in occupation (due to largest inland sea in GA).....

davidfarmer

I do VIR pretty much all month except January, so I think anywhere south of there will give you a good chance of having an almost full year of events. Here in the Charlotte area, I'm within 4 hrs of at least 7 tracks.

sperkins

At least you have your priorities right.

rfn026

I don't consider Sebring a year round track. Just try driving on that track in July or August.

Richard

SouthernSon

Nashville, Tn. No track near here so one can easily pick a track on other aspects of appeal since a long drive is guaranteed in any direction.

Z06cool

I don't see anything wrong with it... It is for mental health man, without it - I'd go nuts...

jaa1992

I live near Duluth, GA so I'll add to Racer-38's list:

12 hours Beaver Run
11 hours Summit Point (There are three different tracks there)

If I didn't live in Duluth I'd try to find work in Agusta, sounds like varkwso has it made.

Really in the N. GA, SC, NC areas you can't go wrong. Lots of places to track the car.
This year I took off Jan, Feb, July, Sep, Oct. Every other month was 1 - 3 weekends at a track! And I have a full time job!

sperkins

Me either - I was being serious.

0Robert@SPEEDSOUTH

I was cracking up thinking the same thing when I read his post.

We're less than 30 minutes from Barber. Beautiful track, very technical, and B'ham is about 2.5 hrs from Road Atlanta. The 2 tracks are very different so thats nice, but July and August is pretty nasty down here.

rustyguns

YOU GUYS ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS BUT phoenix IS REALLY GOOD. WE HAVE 4 ROAD TRACKS NOW AND A NEW ONE SOUTH OF TUCSON AND A NEW ONE OPENING AT THE BORDER AT CALIF AND A NEW ONE OPENING ON WEST SIDE OF VALLEY. THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BE ROAD RACE HEAVEN !

PM ME FOR MORE INFO IT'S AMAZIN' !

WE RUN IN THE MORNING BEFORE 10 AM IN 3 SUMMER MONTHS AND ITS NICE ! THEN 9 MONTHS OF PERFECT RACING WEATHER! THE EVENTS RIGHT NOW ARE SO FRICKEN NICE i AM ALMOST EMBARRASSED.

and our taxes are 1/2 of California

varkwso

AZ is a very nice area and glad to hear they are getting more tracks in close - having lived in Sacramento, Orange County and Phoenix you do not want to know about our taxes here in the southeast...

worldsaway

I live E of New Orleans in NW Fla, but NOLA needs people since hurricane katrina. They have No Problem Raceway 1 hour, Barber 6hours, road ATL 7hours, Houston 6 hours. And a top-shelf club on the order of Autobahn in IL is being built in NOLA, 3.5 miles and big-time. Ed

AU N EGL

Richard has a good POINT.

Sebring in July or August

TOOOOOooooooo HOT