04-25-2007, 12:22 AM
Despite the Saturday and Sunday bmwcca event getting canceled this weekend, I still got to go drive the glen on monday with comscc. They are a time trial club up here and I had a blast with them. The Glen is about a 7 hour drive for me, which was a lot for one track day, but it was worth it. I got about 2.5 hours of track time and most of that time was spent with less than 20 cars on a 3.4 mile track.
The track itself was great. It's very fast with no slow corners (like 5 at summit or oak tree at VIR). It's not that I don't like slow and technical sections, I'm just saying it's pretty fast all the way through. Nearly every corner on the track has a blind apex and there's significant elevation changes too. Nearly all of the blind sections are due to walls cutting off your veiw of the track ahead. There are several places where track out puts you awful close to a wall which could make things interesting, but there was plenty of run off in the places you would really need it.
Pete mentioned in another thread that I would love the uphill esses at the glen and he was right. They are DAMN fast! I wish my car had enough power to make them a little more scary though. I could flat foot it into and through the esses, but since they're uphill (obvious?) my car doesn't gain too much speed along the way.
There was a guy in my group who was driving an r-34 skyline GT-R and a few people with formula and prototype cars. Unfortunately I dont own a camera so I can't show you pictures, but just try to use your imagination. All in all, I highly suggest making a trip up to the glen because it will be worth it.
I'm trying to drive as many northern tracks as I can while I'm up here for the season, so I'll let you know what I think of some of the others.
Tracks to come:
Mosport
Limerock
NHIS
Mt. Tremblant
Calabogie (maybe)
The track itself was great. It's very fast with no slow corners (like 5 at summit or oak tree at VIR). It's not that I don't like slow and technical sections, I'm just saying it's pretty fast all the way through. Nearly every corner on the track has a blind apex and there's significant elevation changes too. Nearly all of the blind sections are due to walls cutting off your veiw of the track ahead. There are several places where track out puts you awful close to a wall which could make things interesting, but there was plenty of run off in the places you would really need it.
Pete mentioned in another thread that I would love the uphill esses at the glen and he was right. They are DAMN fast! I wish my car had enough power to make them a little more scary though. I could flat foot it into and through the esses, but since they're uphill (obvious?) my car doesn't gain too much speed along the way.
There was a guy in my group who was driving an r-34 skyline GT-R and a few people with formula and prototype cars. Unfortunately I dont own a camera so I can't show you pictures, but just try to use your imagination. All in all, I highly suggest making a trip up to the glen because it will be worth it.
I'm trying to drive as many northern tracks as I can while I'm up here for the season, so I'll let you know what I think of some of the others.
Tracks to come:
Mosport
Limerock
NHIS
Mt. Tremblant
Calabogie (maybe)
1993 BMW 325is
Sgt. Slaughter
Sgt. Slaughter