Team3S Member Track Report:

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This track map is above, and other info about the event are HERE  The infield is relatively short and simple..., with only 6-8 turns, depending on how you take them.  At the end of it, you get onto the high banks of the oval - the steepest in the states (maybe the world?).  All of my compadres said it freaked them out when they hit them, but they seemed as natural as sunlight to the Stealth.  If you are doing good, your exit speed from the infield track is only maybe 80 mph, but once you hit the banks on the oval the fun really begins.  You can just keep it on the floor it for the next 2.5 miles or so.  You get to a couple of G downforce on the banked part of the track, and some cars bottom the suspension, but not the Stealth.  And it just eats this part of the track.  This is really where I was catching and passing everyone.  The NASCAR guys do this at close to 200 mph - there's no reason we can't carry maximum speed through all this in our cars even in stock trim.

The NASCAR guys don't have to deal, however, with one minor inconvenience - just before NASCAR turn 1, you have to decelerate from 150 or so to about 40 to take a left into the infield track, and this is one even the experienced racers missed repeatedly.  You want to hit track right on the straight, and hard brake just about where the main flag stand is at mid-straight and apex at a drain grill on your left at the edge of the oval into the infield.  Track right to a late apex 75 degree left turn 2, go about mid-track and return to the left to setup turns 3a and b.  Turns 3a and b can be treated as one sweeper or double apex - the latter worked better for the Stealth.

After a 1/2 mile straight, you have a rising right on slightly late apex in 4, leading up to a deceasing radius right on 5, and then a rise dipped to the left side of the track, guaranteed to upset just about any car.  In our cars, you want to hit about middle track, and lift slightly before the rise to settle the car and then constant acceleration over it.  You have a long downhill sweeper left, technically turns 7 and 8 which leads you out onto the oval.  In our cars, treat it all as one with a late apex on the last turn and go as close to the pile of tires on your right as you hit the oval.  You floor it as soon as you see the oval, and if your dogs aren't really barking through this sweeper, you aren't doing it right.  You'll come out just at the start of NASCAR turn one on the oval, so you come out hitting the banked turn.  You just stay on your arc and hit "the wall" at an acute angle with the right foot on the floor.  You'll need to go up the bank about halfway in order to get completely turned around, and then basically apex turn 2 and run the straight close to the wall.  On turn 3, you can see the line because of where the black tire lines are.  You come down the bank aiming right for the line below the start of the blue spectator stands, and you shouldn't have to turn the wheel again until you unwind.  It's not quite an oval at this point - you want to nearly hit the wall where you see lots of others have, and then apex the dogleg in the oval, and track right.  Then brake at the flag stand mid straight and do it all over again.