Down Hill Tracks
 

There was some discussion about tracks that are down hill in the tech section. Cecil County was mentioned and it is obviously down hill. Someone posted saying that they used Google Earth and it was 16 ft down. The other obvious one that comes to mind is Charlotte. Anyone got a figure on that one ?

What other tracks ? Down or up hill

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Byron, Il and Bandimere (Denver) "look" downhill, probably an Illusion, I heard old Green Valley in Texas was downhill AND short. Tri-State in Earlville, IA was constructed with NHRA allowable slope, they borrowed surveying equipment from me for layout.....also kinda interesting after Earnhardt wreck, I loaned Nikon instruments to U of Nebraska Roadside Safety for investigating (they developed the safer barriers now in use)

Of course I wanted to advertise that our instruments were used, but was told no.

I do know Topeka is uphill both directions!

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Maple Grove looks downhill. I don't know if Napierville is downhill or not but it's awfully fast. I'll go to my grave convinced that Connecticut Dragway was uphill.

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Bremerton out here in Washington is an airport runway track (unused) at the Municipal Airport. It's been operated as a dragstrip by the Handlers Racing Association since the early 50's.Continuously, I think. It makes a dive at the 1/8 mile mark but I have no data on that. The track switched from 1/4 mile to 1/8 mile in 2019. Some folks laughed but the big power SST and SC cars from Pacific started to show up.

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Pomona - downhill.

Al Corda

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I have an altimeter app on my phone along with a compass app. One of the things I do when I get to a track is check the compass heading for weather station setup and check the altitude at the start and finish line. All the stuff I have recorded is in the trailer and I don’t trust my memory enough to give numbers but there are some tracks that are definitely downhill. Mike McMahan 25 H/SA

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Oahe Speedway, 1% down hill. Built that way to NHRA spec.

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Curt Rees

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Charlotte was built with the most allowable slope (according to what I've been told the NHRA "spec" is 1% for new tracks), so it should be right around 13 FT.

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Is Las Vegas downhill at all, or does it just look that way because of the uphill shutdown area?

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Quaker City: Wildly wonky!