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01-31-2017, 11:03 PM
#21
Burning Brakes
That's an understatement!
Local two wheelers call Pacific "very" technical. Other non-locals around the country who have watched our videos on two wheels call it down right dangerous!
Depending on your definition of technical, The Ridge is certainly safer, much more fun and well worth the additional drive time. Although it is becoming more expensive than trackdays at COTA.
Local two wheelers call Pacific "very" technical. Other non-locals around the country who have watched our videos on two wheels call it down right dangerous!
Depending on your definition of technical, The Ridge is certainly safer, much more fun and well worth the additional drive time. Although it is becoming more expensive than trackdays at COTA.
01-31-2017, 11:05 PM
#22
Burning Brakes
The Ridge is much better maintained compared to Pacific Raceways. It's also a much more technical course in my opinion and I think it would make for a better track experience.
I posted the link to the Track Night in America website in my other post (the SCCA track day). But the basics are three 20 minute sessions, with available instruction if you run in the novice group, for $150. They should have the dates up relatively soon, but they have a track day once a month at the Ridge from May to September and I think 3 at Pacific Raceways over the course of the same time period. I might be slightly bias since I do photography for them, but it is a pretty well put together track day and it's not super expensive for what you get either.
I posted the link to the Track Night in America website in my other post (the SCCA track day). But the basics are three 20 minute sessions, with available instruction if you run in the novice group, for $150. They should have the dates up relatively soon, but they have a track day once a month at the Ridge from May to September and I think 3 at Pacific Raceways over the course of the same time period. I might be slightly bias since I do photography for them, but it is a pretty well put together track day and it's not super expensive for what you get either.
01-31-2017, 11:23 PM
#23
Melting Slicks
Sounds good. I'll most likely start a thread with all the dates and such once they become available, so look out for that in the next few months.
01-31-2017, 11:34 PM
#24
Melting Slicks
The pavement at Pacific has not been redone in decades and its trash. They spend every freaking dollar on the dragstrip.....They have lost my support that's for sure.....
02-01-2017, 09:39 AM
#25
Pro
Hey who are you calling old? We are all young kids here!
I may be having my middle age crisis, but hey I can't help it if it started prematurely at the age of 16....and "still" going on strong!
I raced bicycle, tracked motorcycles and cars at Pacific before the Ridge and intimately were familiar with every single crack (specially during bicycle races), and now refuse to support a business that does not have the safety of customers in mind. Pacific even came up with a few fake plans to renovate and improve the place and never followed through. I think they were just some sort of biz hype for whatever they were up to.
Not sure if it's the same owners, but the owner operated one of the biggest DOT construction companies and yet refused to even repave the place, let alone build a couple of run offs at various turns. Trying to apex when apex is a concrete barrier isn't that much fun when you step off!
Last edited by Kamran; 02-01-2017 at 11:30 AM.