Down Hill Tracks

[bigshow2966]

I have been told that Byron is 16 feet lower at the top end too. I have raced there, and my slow junk was no faster there than anywhere else.

Vegas really looks downhill, I'm sure Bruton had it built with as much slope as he could to help ET's out in the desert.

[jmcarter]

Personally I like downhill staging lanes, like Reynolds. Us old guys need a break occasionally.

[Paul Precht]

If anyone is using google-altitude, it's just a local average and not accurate. My property has a bit of a valley in the back and my Bosch transit level says it's about a 16 ft drop. I had a link to a web site that doesn't exist anymore that gave an accurate altitude where it showed the 16 ft and would give me in fractions of an inch as I moved it down my driveway which has a gradual slope. Google shows my entire property as the same 562.2 ft wherever I move it. I checked a lot of tracks with the accurate site a few years ago, It showed Beaver uphill about 17-20 ft I think, but Numidia, Englishtown Atco, Leb Val, NE Dragway, Island and most NHRA tracks to be level within a few inches. It showed Miramichi Dragway Park, I think Cecil and Sacramento, CA to be downhill. I wish I could find an accurate site but can't seem to, the test is easy, my driveway.

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

Personally I like downhill staging lanes, like Reynolds. Us old guys need a break occasionally.

Don't mind the downhill but the uphill staging lanes (Seattle comes to mind) wreaks havoc on us stick guys. I always have to have the wheel turned when I come to a stop (to get some wheel lock from the spool) so I don't roll back into somebody when restarting the car.

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by Jim Caughlin

Don't mind the downhill but the uphill staging lanes (Seattle comes to mind) wreaks havoc on us stick guys. I always have to have the wheel turned when I come to a stop (to get some wheel lock from the spool) so I don't roll back into somebody when restarting the car.

Jim, that was a nice thing about Eagle Motorplex in Ashcroft BC, the downhill staging lanes meant no starting the car or pushing it, once you got into the lanes. Bremerton does run downhill , but I think not until after the finish line.

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by Rory McNeil

Jim, that was a nice thing about Eagle Motorplex in Ashcroft BC, the downhill staging lanes meant no starting the car or pushing it, once you got into the lanes. Bremerton does run downhill , but I think not until after the finish line.

Spokane and Boise also.

[Bob Mulry]

Coming back from INDY in 2004 we raced at Tri-State in Earlville.

I was going to visit my brother in Janesville, Wisconsin so I showed up a few days early to see about dropping our trailer. The rest of the crew headed out to the Field of Dreams.

I was met by the owner and invited it to drop the trailer and he gave me a guided tour in his Caprice with his puppy sitting on the back of the front seat.

What he told me was that the track was all concrete, family was in the business, Laser leveled and downhill 13' because NHRA gives you 1% (13.2') before a correction and sand blasted to rough it up. Still driving, we went up the shut off, down the return road and stopped in the level pit area. There was an uphill area to get to the staging lanes, because they ran downhill to the water boxes.

This is what you get when a plan for a racetrack comes together and it didn't hurt that they are a family of racers..

I love that place.....

[Chipper Chapman]

Miramichi Dragway (New Brunswick Canada) really dives off around the 1/8, sitting on starting line you can't see finish line. Not sure what the elevation difference is from starting line to finish, just know its fast, a little better than Napierville.

[Dave Noll]

@ Renegade in central WA the track is within a foot but the shutdown area drops 6 ft. (By google earth)

The16 ft rise in the shutdown area @ Pacific I didn't really notice racing there, but watching the national event held there, on tv, the top end camera made it way more evident visually.

[Dave Turner]

Originally Posted by Chipper Chapman

Miramichi Dragway (New Brunswick Canada) really dives off around the 1/8, sitting on starting line you can't see finish line. Not sure what the elevation difference is from starting line to finish, just know its fast, a little better than Napierville.

I can see the finish from the start. My problems start just before I get there!!