The Land O' Lakes Region just hosted another great race weekend up at Brainerd International Raceway and this year the star of the show was the new track surface. Track owners, Jed and Christie Copham, have continued to make major investments in the facility and the result is a really sweet racetrack. Turn 1 to Turn 8 have been completely removed, resurfaced, widened by 10' and safety improvements can be seen everywhere. The new track has tons of grip and it's smooooooth.
Spring came late this year up in MN, so they didn't have a chance to put the curbs in yet, but they should have that completed in time for the next SCCA event which is the Jack Pine Sprints Double Regional w/ Trans Am (Labor Day weekend Aug.31-Sept 1.). Do yourself a favor, put that weekend on your calendar and go up to BIR.
Here's some footage of the new track from last Sunday's race:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo8PEjUDPSE
BTW - Jeff Bartz, you still have the track record in FF. Foster, Barkley and I came close last weekend, but we couldn't close the deal. Looks like you will have to come back up here and lower the track record yourself.
Ethan