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Thunderhill Report..after repaving/improvements
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08-11-2008, 09:37 AM | #1 |
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Thunderhill Report..after repaving/improvements
Well, I hit Thunderhill this weekend with the BMW club..and I have the following comments regarding the repaving and berm alterations.
Lets see...berm at the end of T3 is a "CURB" not a berm you can drive on...same thing for the apex for T6...and T8...so now you cannot go over the apex berms on T6, T8, T9, or T10. The exit of T8 is now NEGATIVE camber on the exit berm. The gully in T14 is GONE..it is replaced by a flat apex berm. The only good thing is the exit berm on T15 has got POSITIVE camber..so it throws you back on the track. So, long story short..the motorcycle guys will hate the next setup..plain and simple. It makes the track slower for the car guys..unless you dont care about ruining a wheel. Supposedly the track folks have said that the berms will be altered due to our comments..but I gotta believe that they got the guys who built the sewage draining ditches in downtown Chico CA to do the concrete work on the berms. You can tell they had never taken a car on the track..or they wouldnt have been built the way they were. Be careful out there..because if you hit one of those new "curb-style" berms you will definitely damage a wheel...no doubt about that at all. As for the pavement itself...seemed smoother..but the braking at T1 is still a bit rough at turn in. Track out to the hot pits at T15 is really full of gravel..but that will be swept away with time...Oh, and I dont remember if this was here before..but the exit at T15..for the entrance to the pits also has a nasty dip..dont go thru there fast.
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By the way, could you please clarify 'curb'? Do you mean it is pretty much like a sidewalk now? Also for T8 exit, your description implies that tracking out all the way to the exit berm is now a bad idea? Thanks, Nick |
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You can still track out for T8..just dont go more that about a foot, maybe two fees, into that new asphalt there..because after that..it starts to go down slightly. I am guessing it is for water diversion when raining hard. These are nothing like the berms at Laguna. Laguna's are the ferrari of berms..these are the mack truck version.
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Interesting.... Check out this thread on BARF. One of the seasoned riders seems enthusiastic about the changes at thill |
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Yep..here is a pic..this is the exit of T3..actually looking backwards.
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