Lapeer dragway has a new owner

nitrousrick said:
Just curious, anyone know how wide the track is from inside wall to inside wall? Looking at the photos it looks narrow but not sure if it's an optical illusion since you can still see a lot of pavement color and not all rubber yet. Looking at photos of my car on other walled tracks it looks like I have a lot more room.

I know for sure it's not close to Norwalks width, Milan looks like it may be close. :dontknow:

Using google 131 and Milan look around 55' and Norwalk around 60' or so.
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I wa as thinking the same thing. I was super excited until I saw how narrow the lanes looked. You are right. It is no where close to being as wide as Norwalk. Idk about Milan. But even Milan lanes look a lot wider. Hopefully like you said it's an optical illusion. But I think they are actually narrow. Only way to be positive is just bring a tape measure and go physically measure lapeer and Milan.
 
camaromann said:
I wa as thinking the same thing. I was super excited until I saw how narrow the lanes looked. You are right. It is no where close to being as wide as Norwalk. Idk about Milan. But even Milan lanes look a lot wider. Hopefully like you said it's an optical illusion. But I think they are actually narrow. Only way to be positive is just bring a tape measure and go physically measure lapeer and Milan.
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Google allows you to measure, I've used to to measure the roof of my house and property lines etc, it's always really close. I tried to look up track specs, one site showed a minimum of 14m(45.9318'), with ideal width being 18m(59.0551').

Either way I'll be going down it, was just curious if my eyes were messing with me or not. I'm thinking Lapeer is the 45'-50' range, maybe someone in the know will chime in. :)
 
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dline said:
Last run of the day for this guy didn’t go well
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dline said:
Lapeer is 45’ now was 60’
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Spending 2 million, track width seems an odd place to limit your spending. Limiting it in other places that can be updated/improved in the future would've seemed more wise. Of course without knowing why it's 45' I'm just talking out my ass, they could have a well thought out reason for it beyond budget. :dontknow:
 
It felt narrow in my charger

But I might just be used to old lapeer

I know to get ihra license they had to do it, but even ubly is just lower guard rails and newer onondaga
 
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Oh ok. I agree with and like the concrete walls. I wont race at guardrail track again. I did at lapeer one time over 10yrs ago but never again. I'm pretty bummed they made the track that narrow though. Some of these cars making a few thousand horsepower move around side to side a good bit on a run. Not sure how I'd feel being that close to a wall and the other persons lane.
 
camaromann said:
Oh ok. I agree with and like the concrete walls. I wont race at guardrail track again. I did at lapeer one time over 10yrs ago but never again. I'm pretty bummed they made the track that narrow though. Some of these cars making a few thousand horsepower move around side to side a good bit on a run. Not sure how I'd feel being that close to a wall and the other persons lane.
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I won't say much until I make a pass, I think it will be fine until it's not. :lol:

From the chatter I've heard it sounded like they might have some grudge type events. Those cars are stupid fast, a few of those guys rub paint or the wall and none of the fast cars will be interested. Time will tell, I'd just hate for them to miss the mark because of the track width. I know one person who made passes and when I asked about the width he said "it's raceable". :dontknow:

For all I know it could be safer this way, maybe being on the narrow side will keep the cars from taking hard impacts by not allowing the car to turn into the wall as hard and will provide more of a "brush" off hit.
 
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he bought 80 acres to the south, for more truck & trailer parking too

looks like the walls will be done this week for 1/4 mile stuff
 
I'm looking forward to trying it out. A friend of mine is one of the guys working on that project. The width is slightly concerning to me because my cars have had power wheelie problems, even at or after 330' out. That seems like we may be aborting passes that we'd normally be able to pedal through, because if the car is way up at speed, it might be tough to tell if we're going to land it on the wall or not.

I guess I just have to try it first, but it does seem narrow. They are committed to making it hook though, which is really the most important thing in my opinion.
 
1BADAIR said:
Closer to the wall you are the less it
hurts when you hit it
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Not when mine and others cars are all composite. I already went through this once "bumping" a wall and destroyed a front clip and a door. This was at a track that was much wider and I barely felt the car hit. I almost had it gathered up when I touched it. If the walls were 5-6ft closer I would have smashed the entire side of my car and done tons more damage. Almost any touching the wall rips composite cars up.
 
camaromann said:
Not when mine and others cars are all composite. I already went through this once "bumping" a wall and destroyed a front clip and a door. This was at a track that was much wider and I barely felt the car hit. I almost had it gathered up when I touched it. If the walls were 5-6ft closer I would have smashed the entire side of my car and done tons more damage. Almost any touching the wall rips composite cars up.
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Ryan, i know a good body guy thats good with duct tape and super glue. (Standy)..... just saying.
 
Stormy81 said:
Ryan, i know a good body guy thats good with duct tape and super glue. (Standy)..... just saying.
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We were drinking beers Saturday and Andy suggested we go crash your camp site lol. I FINALLY got a guy to paint my car next month. If not I'll have Andy on backup.
 
Fryguy302 said:
I'm looking forward to trying it out. A friend of mine is one of the guys working on that project. The width is slightly concerning to me because my cars have had power wheelie problems, even at or after 330' out. That seems like we may be aborting passes that we'd normally be able to pedal through, because if the car is way up at speed, it might be tough to tell if we're going to land it on the wall or not.

I guess I just have to try it first, but it does seem narrow. They are committed to making it hook though, which is really the most important thing in my opinion.
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I've been waiting to hear the thoughts of one of the heavy hitters. :)
 
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