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20 May 2003, 13:35 (Ref:604725)
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Best Circuits in CART?
What are your favourite venues in the Champ Car World Series? Obviously there are going to be a lot of "Road America" answers, so please provide a list of your 'top five.' Mine are:
Road America - With Spa out of F1, I consider this the 'crown' of open wheel racing. Surfers Paradise - 'Home' Champ Car track for me. Mid Ohio - Very nice undulating course. Fontana - Not a big oval fan, but I like the Super Speedways . Mexico City - I'd love to see the Peraltada in all it's glory, but as it stands, still magnificent. Laguna Seca, Lausitz and Long Beach just miss out my top give. As for the worst, it's got to be Denver, with Miama up there. Brands Indy churned out a very dull race, but at least it's a nice, flowing, rolling course. |
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20 May 2003, 13:41 (Ref:604736)
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Road America Surfers Paradise Brands Hatch Laguna Seca Last edited by ascarracinguk; 20 May 2003 at 13:41. |
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20 May 2003, 13:43 (Ref:604740)
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i aslo like cleveland because its BIG and loads of overtaking
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20 May 2003, 14:04 (Ref:604774)
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Road america-Laguna seca-Surfer's Paradise, Fonatana/Michigan- Brands (althouhg I want the full GP circuit) cleavaland isn't bad MidOhio is too short i think and narrow for these cars...
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20 May 2003, 14:05 (Ref:604776)
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Road America, Laguna Seca, Surfers', Mexico City and (theoretically) Brands Indy would be my top 5. Lausitz and Fontana provide great oval racing too, and Long Beach is great for a street track.
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20 May 2003, 14:14 (Ref:604784)
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I like the Toronto course as well. Despite it being fairly narrow, it's very challenging with both high speed turns, low speed turns and two, maybe three places to pass.
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20 May 2003, 14:36 (Ref:604801)
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Surfers Paradise
Toronto Long Beach St.Petersberg (USA) Miami |
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20 May 2003, 14:51 (Ref:604818)
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Road America
Mexico City Montreal Laguna Seca Long Beach |
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20 May 2003, 15:37 (Ref:604894)
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Laguna Seca Fontana Cleveland  Lausitzring Mexico City with the baseball stadium and the Mickey-Mouse section cutting off the hairpin just doesn't do it for me. On a not-totally-unrelated note, Gordon Kirby seems to have some ideas on where CART _should_ be racing. http://www.cart.com/News/Article.asp?ID=6059 |
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20 May 2003, 16:08 (Ref:604937)
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Road America, Burke Lakefront, Fontana and Germany.
Laguna is a beautiful venue, but ChampCars seldom seem to put on a great show there anymore. Likewise Mid-Ohio. But since this series is becoming increasingly street-oriented, I guess I should pick out a couple of favourites from that category, too. So I'll go with Australia and St.Petes. |
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20 May 2003, 17:02 (Ref:605001)
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Road America - It's awesome and it's where I learned to drive a race car.
Cleveland - Nice and wide with lots of overtaking. Laguna Seca - The corkscrew is just fantastic. Mid Ohio - a couple of nice long straightaways with good breaking zones at the end and some cool elevation changes Surfer's Paradise - best street course on the circuit, love to see the guys hopping the curbs |
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20 May 2003, 17:17 (Ref:605037)
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20 May 2003, 19:20 (Ref:605200)
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Road America
Laguna Seca Mid Ohio Montreal Fontana |
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20 May 2003, 19:43 (Ref:605215)
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Elkhart Lake
Cleveland Toronto Sufferers Paradise Mid Ohio |
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20 May 2003, 19:56 (Ref:605227)
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Montreal has to be one of the better ones for fans to attend. Beautiful circuit, tons of trees and green spaces, a number of great places to see the cars with just general admission (unlike the Grand Prix) and lots of shady places to sit down and have lunch. Just bring your walking shoes...
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20 May 2003, 20:11 (Ref:605241)
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Jeez, I keep forgetting Montreal's on the schedule!
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20 May 2003, 20:26 (Ref:605256)
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I don't know if the montreal track is that interesting though...a bunch of chicanes and hairpins... still, I never mind driving it in GP3.
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20 May 2003, 20:42 (Ref:605270)
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Cleveland
Laguna Seca Fontana Mid Ohio Lausitz now! |
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20 May 2003, 23:47 (Ref:605431)
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Cleveland (I was at the first eight races there)
Mid Ohio (great viewing areas from what I remember ten years ago) Milwaukee (lets hope it's better this year) St. Pete (It's one of the best street courses around) Portland (great track, it would be so much better without those stupid festival curves, too many pointless accidents) |
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20 May 2003, 23:57 (Ref:605436)
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In no particular order:
Cleveland - Always produces great racing Long Beach - Jewel in the CART crown Road America - Eat your heart out. Brilliant! Lausitz - Both races there have been great. Fontana - Usually produces some great oval racing. Also up there are Mid-Ohio and Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. |
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21 May 2003, 00:13 (Ref:605442)
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Laguna Seca
Road America Cleveland Montreal Mexico City even though it's rather lame without the Peraltada |
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21 May 2003, 03:07 (Ref:605507)
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Montreal
Cleveland Road America Toronto Fontana and, if you want more than five... Laguna Seca, Long Beach, Surfer's Paradise, Lausitzring, Monterrey, Mexico City, Portland, Mid-Ohio, Milwaukee, and Vancouver (cause it's my "home race, though I know many of you despise this course) Yeah, so pretty much all of them. There's a lot of GREAT tracks in CART, and I think we forget that a lot of the time. I don't really care for Denver though... |
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21 May 2003, 03:43 (Ref:605524)
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I love that super wide hairpin in Denver. If they could smooth the circuit out some, it'd be alright.
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21 May 2003, 04:21 (Ref:605536)
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Ditto Corkholio's list
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21 May 2003, 05:18 (Ref:605553)
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laguna seca
road america surfers paradise and of course eurospeedway lausitz
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