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**GregWeld** · #**281** 08-09-2014, 07:15 PM

The elevations on this track are just so dang much fun..... I love hustling down the front straight and turning up that hill into T2 and then down into the dip at T3 and back up and out of T3A.... then hustling down out of T7 and into the twists on the back.

Hope the folks that haven't had a chance - get one. If you do - don't pass it up. It's awesome.

Track Junky · #**282** 08-09-2014, 07:24 PM

Not to mention the track setting and the views. Hard to explain but one of those tracks you don't want to drive home from. Don't know how many times I've pondered renting one of the shops out to live in.

intocarss · #**283** 08-09-2014, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

The elevations on this track are just so dang much fun..... I love hustling down the front straight and turning up that hill into T2 and then down into the dip at T3 and back up and out of T3A.... then hustling down out of T7 and into the twists on the back.

Hope the folks that haven't had a chance - get one. If you do - don't pass it up. It's awesome.

I road around 90% of that track on a bicycle during an NHRA event back in the 80's. Does that count??

**GregWeld** · #**284** 08-09-2014, 07:48 PM

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I road around 90% of that track on a bicycle during an NHRA event back in the 80's. Does that count??

Not if your bike was a two speed automatic.

intocarss · #**285** 08-09-2014, 08:05 PM

I'll shift once as I pass you GW.. BTW I remember a place that had a bunch of old Navy ships parked (in the water) to be scraped..Is it still there and is it near the track?? It was a hell of a site to see

**GregWeld** · #**286** 08-09-2014, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by intocarss

I'll shift once as I pass you GW.. BTW I remember a place that had a bunch of old Navy ships parked (in the water) to be scraped..Is it still there and is it near the track?? It was a hell of a site to see

Probably saw them when going over the bridge on I-680 ---- there's a mothball fleet there in Suisun Bay.

**Sieg** · #**287** 08-09-2014, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by intocarss

I road around 90% of that track on a bicycle during an NHRA event back in the 80's. Does that count??

Only time I'd seen the track prior to the first session on Saturday was in '92 or '93 when we towed my friend's (Mel Bryson) Willy's up to flat out of T2 for a magazine photo shoot during the Jim Davis Memorial Drags.

**Sieg** · #**288** 08-09-2014, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by intocarss

I'll shift once as I pass you GW.. BTW I remember a place that had a bunch of old Navy ships parked (in the water) to be scraped..Is it still there and is it near the track?? It was a hell of a site to see

Here's a Google Earth image that shows them!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Se...59877392?hl=en

intocarss · #**289** 08-09-2014, 08:57 PM

Thanks for the name GW and Sieg. Looks like they emptied that place out.

Track Junky · #**290** 08-09-2014, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by intocarss

I'll shift once as I pass you GW.. BTW I remember a place that had a bunch of old Navy ships parked (in the water) to be scraped..Is it still there and is it near the track?? It was a hell of a site to see

That place is Mare Island. The EPA put a stop to the scrapping of the ships and now what they do is bring them to Mare Island just to make them sea worthy enough to get them to Texas and then they scrap them there.
The Navy did a lot of damage to the waters in that area not to mention the surrounding land on Mare Island where they were based. Lennar Homes now owns a huge piece of the area and have put up a few housing developments there. Often during excavations for infrastructure we come across silver dirt buried below the surface. The silver dirt is lead paint that was sand blasted from the ships hulls.
I've been told that there is a lot of ammunition from the war ships that was dumped into the waters there. Story has it that war ships would be sent out on training missions and if they came back to Mare Island with any ammo left on board they would lose funding to buy more ammo so they started dumping the ammo before docking.