can you show me your local track?

[sickmint79]

hi all -

i run a travel blog http://www.igobyplane.com/ that not even my mom reads but hey, i'm trying and it's fun!

one of the angles i am going for is to be a cool place to see different car experiences around the world. when you go to my site and click on cars, instead of reading about civics at hertz or avis, you will see different race tracks, kart tracks, and other experiences around the world you can do. examples of some things i've done: an international kart track in brazil; the nurburgring in germany with a gutted swift; dirtfish rally school with a brz; yas marina f1 track with a formula 3000.

at the moment i'm looking at a new job, one where i take a decent pay cut but get to be able to work 99% of the time remotely. if this happens i'm looking for more tracks and places to visit, and on here in particular looking for people that could show me around their local scene.

i'd like to do articles/videos on local tracks, info about how to access them, your car, your experience there - any way i as a tourist might be able to get on them as well. cool kart tracks and regular road tracks specifically. i'd put more effort into cooler article/video features but some examples -

autobahn race track - joliet, il, usa - http://www.igobyplane.com/2014/08/13...hn-in-america/
gingerman raceway - south haven, mi, usa - http://www.igobyplane.com/2014/07/15...gridlife-2014/
granja viana international kart track - sao paulo, brazil - http://www.igobyplane.com/2015/04/15...-paulo-brazil/
killarney international raceway - cape town, south africa - http://www.igobyplane.com/2015/03/18...way-cape-town/

killarney was great, i just happened to get lucky meeting up with a fellow 86 owner from this site whom i met on facebook. i'm basically looking to do that, but with more of a plan around meeting someone and their track, and doing a feature on them and their car. eventually i want my site to be the place where car enthusiasts can go and check out cool car related travel things they can do - whether they are already visiting some area, or are making it a point to travel to a destination for a driving experience there.

TL; DR - looking for people that can show me their local tracks around the world, to do feature stories on your car and your track.

what i can bring; currently what's in my bag -
helmet
gopro 3 black
gopro 4 black
808 keychain camera (can velcro somewhere and get feet)
garmin virb elite (vid + gps data capture - 1 hz)
aim solo dl (gps and optionally obd2 data capture - 10 hz)

2 camera 1 hz kart vid - yas marina kartzone - abu dhabi, uae
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5CIaWgBcE"]Karting at Yas Marina Kartzone - Abu Dhabi, UAE - YouTube[/ame]


1 camera 10 hz track vid with more data channels - autobahn south - joliet, il, usa
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO0qReRlq20"]Gridlife 2 2015 BRZ at Autobahn South Race Track - YouTube[/ame]


3 cameras (too many really) with 10 hz data - gingerman - south haven, mi, usa
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXB7vVND60"]Wangfest 2014 Session 3 Intermediate Gingerman BRZ - YouTube[/ame]


i also have a buddy working on some cool new mounts!
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHQsjLNftXY"]Rustic Roads - SW Wisconsin #81 - Marty Road - YouTube[/ame]

if you want a copy of any of the raw footage i record, bring a laptop and we can copy it all over.

if you are by a cool track that i should visit and can show me around, please let me know! i'd love to plan a visit some time. in the US i may or may not try to bring my own BRZ. anywhere else i'll be looking for something i can rent, or appreciate a ride in your car, or really appreciate a drive if you were open to it. let me know in here or PM if you'd be up for meeting up some time and working on something together. and if you're ever in chicagoland (and it's not winter!) i may be able to show you around to any of our local tracks (1 in about 2 hours in any cardinal direction).

[CBR600RR]

here is my local track: http://www.calabogiemotorsports.com/trackmap/

Though I have never taken my FR-S there, I take my CBR600RR there a few times a season. It is a GREAT track!

[jvincent]

Calabogie is my local track as well. There's a thread dedicated to it and all the guys who go there with several videos.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11312

[sickmint79]

Originally Posted by CBR600RR

here is my local track: http://www.calabogiemotorsports.com/trackmap/

Though I have never taken my FR-S there, I take my CBR600RR there a few times a season. It is a GREAT track!

sickmint79 does not fare well on 2 wheels, and prefers a metal roof

thanks for the link to the locals thread though! looks like a pretty nice long track.

[sickmint79]

also, candy mountain is an awesome name for a section of the track!

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by sickmint79

also, candy mountain is an awesome name for a section of the track!

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY"]Charlie the Unicorn - YouTube[/ame]

As for tracks near me...

ACS
Chuckwalla
WSIR
Streets of Willow
Buttonwillow

Farther away:
Spring Mountain
Laguna Seca
Sears Point
Thunderhill

-alex

[wparsons]

I'm 25 minutes from CTMP (Mosport), about 2 hours from TMP (Toronto Motorsports Park, Cayuga), about 1.5 hours from Shannonville, etc.

If you're ever in this area we could hit up a few tracks.

[MaximeT]

The best track around Paris - France, Les Ecuyers :

http://www.circuitdesecuyers.com/

Edit : video. Sorry slow track this day, but you'll see the track nicely.

[HerrFunf]

Check out Hutchinson Island near Savannah, GA. Cool little island with a track. My SCAD friends and I used to race there when it was closed to the public in the late 90's. We'd sneak on, burn some laps, then bounce before five 0 showed up. It was the ultimate playground for a college student who likes to go fast. Anytime I would borrow someones decent car in college, this is the first place I'd take it to give a good lashing.. almost wrecked my friends 5 liter mustang when the stock brakes overheated in just 2 laps!
Now it's open for legit racing.

[MonoRaven]

Originally Posted by HerrFunf

Check out Hutchinson Island near Savannah, GA. Cool little island with a track. My SCAD friends and I used to race there when it was closed to the public in the late 90's. We'd sneak on, burn some laps, then bounce before five 0 showed up. It was the ultimate playground for a college student who likes to go fast. Anytime I would borrow someones decent car in college, this is the first place I'd take it to give a good lashing.. almost wrecked my friends 5 liter mustang when the stock brakes overheated in just 2 laps!
Now it's open for legit racing.

They built that track trying to get Indy races to come there. They ran one Indy Lights race and then the funding ran out and just like Savannah everything fell apart. I'm not sure of legit racing going on there but I do know they run SCCA Solo events once a month somewhere on the island. I'm going out there Aug 9th, the next Solo to check it out.

We also have a real nice SCCA track in the area, Roebling Road, in Bloomingdale.

[CSG Mike]

Well, California has a TON of tracks

[sickmint79]

Originally Posted by mav1178

As for tracks near me...

ACS
Chuckwalla
WSIR
Streets of Willow
Buttonwillow

Farther away:
Spring Mountain
Laguna Seca
Sears Point
Thunderhill

-alex

is wsir/willow springs the same as streets of willow?

[sickmint79]

Originally Posted by HerrFunf

Check out Hutchinson Island near Savannah, GA. Cool little island with a track. My SCAD friends and I used to race there when it was closed to the public in the late 90's. We'd sneak on, burn some laps, then bounce before five 0 showed up. It was the ultimate playground for a college student who likes to go fast. Anytime I would borrow someones decent car in college, this is the first place I'd take it to give a good lashing.. almost wrecked my friends 5 liter mustang when the stock brakes overheated in just 2 laps!
Now it's open for legit racing.

does westin own this??

site doesn't have much of a calendar or anything.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by sickmint79

is wsir/willow springs the same as streets of willow?

Same venue different track:

https://goo.gl/maps/KiqUt

There's actually 3 tracks but almost no road racer uses Horsethief Mile, that is mostly a test/drift venue.

-alex