New track a commin ! !

[rickb99]

Posted just a while ago by Randy Blaylock:

The Ridge Motorsports Park has cleared the final hurdle! New race track coming.

The final hurdle in the approval process for the Ridge Motorsports Park has been cleared.

It's difficult to overestimate the significance of this event. There have been countless attempts over the years to build a new race track of any kind, many have tried, and many have failed.

This will be the first new motorsports facility in the greater Puget Sound region in a generation or more, and it's owned, designed, and intended to be used by club racers.

Ground breaking begins today, grading by week's end. The objective is to be running test laps by late summer, and a full race schedule in 2012.

Congratulations to the regular guys that conceived, and then acheived!

END OF POST ON ICSCC FORUM:

AND WE"LL BE RACING NEXT YEAR!

http://www.ridgemotorsportspark.com/

Don't say it can't be done. We will now have SIX tracks within a 4 to 5 hour drive of each other. It may rain a lot up here, but we DO enjoy the racing.

[rickb99]

Two weeks of progress as seen by helo and fixed wing!

Gonna be racing in 2012


HELO VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydAvQtcRA0

FIXED WING VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RidgeMot.../0/_7_irLjDNuk

[fezzic181]

If you guys can keep posting vids as the track construction continues that would be sweet. Watching a track come to life will be fun. Not to mention how great those vids will be when folks are running it 25 years from now.

[Alex Pate]

Looked at there website but couldn't find.

any estimate on the overall length of the front straight away as well.

Thanks,

[rickb99]

....any estimate on the overall length of the front straight away as well. Thanks,

Strange, I know its been mentioned. I'm thinking it's between 2.25 and 2.5 miles

[rickb99]

Okay, accurate answer.. LONG course is 2.41 miles. Can be split into 2 shorter tracks.

And rest assured the straight is 'plenty' long. One of of the major movers on this venture is a GT-1 driver named Rod Powell. His hero is "Ricky BobbY" and he does enjoy the Shack & Bake Baby on the straights. His car "per the entry lists" is a Chevrolet - Barcalounger model.