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It's not exactly at the geographic center of the country, but it's within 300 miles of it. What could be more fair than that?

Friday's race could be held on the West side, Saturday's on the East side and then Sunday's big event could run the full 6.3 miles.


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Dave Balingit
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Personally I like Mid-Ohio. I don't mind travelling cross-country once a year. On the other hand, I wonder if some mid-west guys don't like running "the same track we ran last month". Could be boring for them.

Given the option, once this contract runs out (and if it's not renewed), I'd like to see us go somewhere without a NASA presence. Road America? Pacific Raceway? Portland?

If you want to remove "hometrack advantage, you gotta go where no one lives, and I've been to those out in the desert. Believe me, it's great to have a track like MO that welcomes and supports us - and has a semblance of civilization around it!

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-Brad
SoCal CMC #36

Eventhough Nationals will be held at Mid-Ohio for at least the next 3 years, why would the notion of the West Coast be "laughable" to host the National Championship someday?

"Given the option, once this contract runs out (and if it's not renewed), I'd like to see us go somewhere without a NASA presence. Road America? Pacific Raceway? Portland?"

Brad,

Great idea...let's move it to Road America...nobody ever races there!

Um, actually NASA Midwest has raced there every year that there has been a NASA Midwest and many of the region drivers cut their teeth there when starting out.

The "Home Track" advantage only counts for a year or two. If you can't figure MO out in 6 days of driving then you're not going to get it. Moving the Nationals every couple of years put many more at a disadvantage.

Sidney Franklin
AI #64

If you would have quoted his entire comment, you would understand. Someone suggested a circle track, which would be rediculous unless there is a road course at that specific track, like Daytona.

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Although the Fontana track does have both an infield road course configuration and a Roval configuaration that uses part of the NASCAR track, most road racers don't like Rovals and IMO it would be very unpopular to host a national championship at this type of venue. However, the main reason I called the suggestion "laughable" is because California is pretty damn far from where most of the people live in this country, especially racers. Trust me, I lived in LA for eight years so I know all about the feeling that it is the center of the universe. However, one only needs to look at the geographic population density of the US to realize that the majority of people actually live EAST of the Mississippi, and the best way to ensure the failure of this event would be to put it in California.

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Matt King

Matt's right...if the SCCAs HPT experiment has taught anyone anything, its that a national championship (*anyones* national championship) deserves a purpose-built, championship-quality venue with strong road-racing tradition, as close to the racer center-of-gravity (not the geographical center). Rovals aint gonna cut it.

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Why not HPT? I'll bet in a few years, the SCCA will be happy to trade the dates to NASA to get Mid-Ohio back.

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Matt King

or Eagles Canyon.

http://www.eaglescanyon.com/php/welcome.php

jb

I was waiting for someone to say this.


Geographical-center means nothing if the facility isnt championship-worthy. People *wont* come to a non-worthy track no matter how 'central' it is....they *will* make the extra effort to come to a *worthy* track that's farther away.

Geography is (somewhat) overrated.

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