Reviews - Carolina Motorsports Park
10-29-2018, 08:59 PM
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Burning Brakes
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Reviews - Carolina Motorsports Park
Trying to extend my season by traveling south a bit from my home on the Mason Dixon line. Looking at an event at Carolina Motorsports Park , Kershaw S.C.
I normally run at Pittsburgh, Summit Point, Mid Ohio, and occasionally VIR.
would appreciate comments / reviews / tips re CMP.
I normally run at Pittsburgh, Summit Point, Mid Ohio, and occasionally VIR.
would appreciate comments / reviews / tips re CMP.
10-30-2018, 09:02 AM
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10-30-2018, 09:23 AM
#4
Melting Slicks
CMP is pretty abrasive. They did some grinding on parts of it and that helped to a degree, but it truly needs a repave.
It's a fun track and I like it a lot, but it's hard on tires.
It's a fun track and I like it a lot, but it's hard on tires.
10-30-2018, 10:15 AM
#5
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
This topic was prompted when I viewed some YouTube videos of CMP. And I thought: Hmmmm......
Looks like I may juggle my schedule and try to run a couple of weeks earlier with PCA at VIR.
Thanks guys.
Looks like I may juggle my schedule and try to run a couple of weeks earlier with PCA at VIR.
Thanks guys.
10-30-2018, 10:17 AM
#6
Burning Brakes
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10-31-2018, 10:00 PM
#7
CMP will eat brakes and tires, too many squared off corners, a straight away that ends with a 45MPH left hand 90. Try AMP, big elevation, blind corners, or Roebling, big fast momentum track. There is also a track right at the NC/VA border off 95, NCCAR alot of symmetrical corners w/o barriers.
11-01-2018, 08:22 AM
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Drifting
There is also a track right at the NC/VA border off 95, NCCAR alot of symmetrical corners w/o barriers.
11-01-2018, 09:30 AM
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I took my C6Z to CMP once and I took the C7Z there once. Track eats tires and throws sand everywhere. I had to loosen the front splitter to remove sand particles that got between it and the fascia and between it and the end caps. Sand particles were lodged in the notch that forms where the rear spoiler attaches to the rear fascia and they were between the splitter and the wicker bill. The slicks were covered in sand. I was talking about it with a C6Z owner that I met there and he just said "You don't bring your best equipment here". The track design itself could stand some improved run off areas especially at the end of that long straight with the 90 degree turn. I don't know if the kink can be improved other than relaying out the track. It looks more like it was designed for cars that DO NOT get up to the speeds that Corvettes and similar cars of the past 20 years are capable of achieving.
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