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I stopped at Capitol on my way to MIR not long after they reopened a few years ago (2021). Really cool track, they had some interesting...processes...at the time. Fairly large facility, decent length shutdown, plus it's uphill. When I was there, they were using some funky portable timing system...Race America. It was giving me weird incremental times. Hopefully that is gone. I didn't have any problems with traction, they seemed to be using a good bit of glue.
The traffic on Route 3 can be downright ridiculous. If you don't know where you're going and miss the turn, you will play hell getting your rig turned around. It wasn't bad late at night leaving, but getting there on a Friday afternoon was interesting. |
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I dig it. It's an 8 hour drive for me with no traffic, but I could use a good excuse to see a new race track.
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Capitol would not do well with an IHRA race there. It is pretty much a test tune/grudge race track no, meaning they run a pretty loose program,Like the other fellow said it is in a heavily congested area and traffic can be a problem.
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They sometimes run no-prep races in the reverse direction starting on the top end.
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I found an event flyer from the days when 7's and 8's were good for a Funny Car. I haven't seen any pictures of the track itself from the 70's.
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Was there a long time ago, once. Never a reason for me to go back and a number of reasons not to. And it's not far for me.
MIR would be a better choice for the Mid Atlantic area. |
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