NAARC/MARRS Races at the Glen/Pocono

[dickita15]

the narrc meetings are held twice a year on the saturday of the spring and fall divisional meetings. the next one is Nov 20th. the narrc commitee is made up of the RE's and Competition directors of the 4 narrc meetings. nnjr, nyr, ner and mo hud.
i know the nysrrc meetings are usually the same time. i know nothing about the marrs meetings as that is one region.
dick patullo

 

[22timber]

I know Bill Hutchens was just elected to the Washington DC region board of directors. His email is [email protected].

Mark Lapos

 

[tdw6974]

Originally posted by dickita15:
narrc meetings

Dick is there a web site for NAARC Info? Thanks TW

 

[itracer]

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Dick is there a web site for NAARC Info? Thanks TW[/b][/QUOTE]

http://www.scca-nnjr.org/series/narrc.html#Head

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Jason
ITB 17 (NER SCCA)
VW Scirocco

[This message has been edited by itracer (edited January 20, 2005).]

 

[Andy Bettencourt]

The net/net is that there is a NARRC Double at Pocono May 14-15 and a NERRC single at WGI July 23-24.

edit - Thanks Terry!

Andy

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Andy Bettencourt
New England Region, R188967
ITA project SM 1.6
Spec Miata 1.8
www.flatout-motorsports.com

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[Terry Hanushek]

Andy

<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">The net/net is that there is a NARRC Double at Pocono July 9-10 and a NERRC single at WGI July 23-24.</font>

The NNJR NARRC Double Regional at Pocono is scheduled for 14-15 May.

Terry


[This message has been edited by Terry Hanushek (edited January 20, 2005).]

 

[JOESELLSVW]

This wouldn't be a terrible idea, but I too must say that the Pocono track is lame. I've done plenty of laps there with Porsche Club, BMW club etc. I'll bet that anyone who really likes Pocono has never driven Summit. I can say this with Pocono being the CLOSEST tack to me. Pocono is just plain boring to drive compared to Summit. Basically I'm saying that I'd rather drive 3 hours to SP than about an hour and fifteen minutes to get to Pocono. Seriously, Nelson is more fun.. no lie! As soon as Thunderbolt Raceway in Millville NJ opens I'll never even think about Pocono and the nasty staff, tiny paddock, and total lack of atmosphere again. Seriously, the MARRS series is such a good time to attend I really couldn't see it being as fun if it were at Pocono. MARRS at TR? It'll happen, guaranteed!

 

[benspeed]

I was pleased to see that NERRC points will be awarded at the Glenn this year - still not sure why NAARC points didn't get included. We'll all need to lobby for that next year before the mini-con which I think is when the schedule is finialized.

Thunder Raceway and a new roadcourse at Englishtown will make things real interesting in the next couple of years for determining which tracks host what series points.

Anybody see the development for the Englishtown track? I thought it was going to be a kart track, but the pavement is 40 ft wide and should be good for road racing.

Check out the link:
http://www.etownraceway.com/

Cheers,

 

[SamITC85]

I don't think the SCCA will ever approve w2w racing at Englishtown. Look at the pictures of turn 8 you can see how close it comes to turn 10. They had a fatality these year at Thunderhill when a car crossed over from one portion of a track to another. I can maybe see Solo 1 or auto cross but no racing. But maybe they will put some barriers up, who knows.

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Sam Rolfe
TBR Motorsports
#85 ITC VW Rabbit being converted to LPHP
#85 GP Scirocco

 

[Matt Rowe]

Originally posted by SamITC85:
I can maybe see Solo 1 or auto cross but no racing. But maybe they will put some barriers up, who knows.

Road racing seems unlikely with how closely the course doubles back on itself. In fact when the first course map came out a couple of years back some of the stewards in the local Solo I group took a look. Although we would wait until the course is finalized, our preliminary opinion was the track would not be good for a Solo I track because of the lack of seperation between sections of the course. To break even Solo I's need to run multiple cars on course and although we maintain gaps between cars during timed runs those gaps vary depending on the speed differential between cars not to mention someone having a good or bad lap. There are several places where a car can make an error and affect another portion of the course.

The final configuration with barriers and berms might improve the situation but I have my reservations.

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~Matt Rowe
ITA Shelby Charger
MARRS #96