Thoughts on Sanctioned vs Nonsanctioned tracks

[bigshow2966]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Wanna see scary?Go to Youtube and look up George Ray's little hometown racetrack.
That will curl your toes.

Or look for Yellowbelly.

Or No Limit Raceway. (Formerly US 41)

I've had guys from NLR tell me I'm a dumbass because I wore a helmet in a 13 second car. They saw nothing wrong with no helmet in an 11 second car.

It's all fun until someone loses an eye.

[kdanner]

Originally Posted by bigshow2966

Or look for Yellowbelly.

Did that action move to Dallas Raceway?

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to necessarily matter if it is sanctioned:

[treessavoy]

I have raced at more unsanctioned tracks than sanctioned, I have raced at tracks that had no safety or medical equipment, no fences or retaining walls and tracks that were so short that you went through the traps hard on the brakes.

Very few of us started out at Indy! We worked our way up from them to "real" race tracks with all the safety equipment and a full sanction.

I stood at the side of the track at York for the first SS/DI nationals, not behind the fence but at the edge of the asphalt, I could have touched Dick Landy's car as it went by me at 125 mph.....just me and hundreds of others!

And, in the end, I've had more fun at little dragstrips out in the woods than at sanctioned strips.

JimR