Entry access road (trail) at Maxton/Laurinburg status

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

the TNT course last year was awesome I thought. I for one am excited about it. The P is nice, but theres certainly some interesting things that can be done with that area.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:18 am

34.778661,-79.355387

Is roughly where the worst bad spot is, if my memory serves correct.

Dustin Fredrickson · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:03 am

Chuck Branscomb wrote:

Ryan Holton wrote:

Chuck, do you know where the Golden Knights "awning" is. Over there or

34.779966,-79.354218

If I have my info straight

Thanks. I put that into maps below -- I've always thought that area was junk, but maybe if it's cleaned off and all, it's not any worse than the old area.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=34.779966,-79.354218+&sll=34.787233,-79.361544&sspn=0.039933,0.034804&g=Maxton,+Robeson,+North+Carolina&ie=UTF8&ll=34.779575,-79.356898&spn=0.009984,0.012789&t=h&z=17

This is more or less correct, but we can use more of the main runway than is shown here.

Graham Jagger · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 am **Posts:** 1718

We ran the Golden Knights area a few years back. There were a few spots that had to be worked around. Mostly concrete broken. I don't remember the slabs being lifted where they meet like the other end of the site is. At the end of the taxiway we used, by the left turn, the concrete was lifted badly. Then add in all the holes and mess.

We ran about 2/3 of that loop and it wasn't too bad. Bring it up in Google Earth. You can see the layout and an image from Oct/08. If you could also use the main runway to the left of it that would be nice. Depending on the condition. That poor site needs work...

Graham Jagger · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 am **Posts:** 1718

If I'm following along right. This is it.

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:30 pm

could someone post a big red circle/square around the area we get to use?

also, why does it look like their is a track outlined on there already? in the center strip? I see a figure 8, an big cirlce and what looks like a few other elements in the center.

Dustin Fredrickson · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:17 pm

JasonWatts wrote:

could someone post a big red circle/square around the area we get to use?

also, why does it look like their is a track outlined on there already? in the center strip? I see a figure 8, an big cirlce and what looks like a few other elements in the center.

Basically everything on that picture posted above is correct. To simplify, we can more or less use everything we were NOT using before, and our old areas have been blocked off for other, private, uses.

There are other car clubs that use L'burg as well. I know the Porsche guys run down there on occasion. We ran that section at the TnT last year as well. The grippy tires wears the dirty layer off the top of the concrete - thus the outlines you see.

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:44 pm

Dustin Fredrickson wrote:

JasonWatts wrote:

could someone post a big red circle/square around the area we get to use?

also, why does it look like their is a track outlined on there already? in the center strip? I see a figure 8, an big cirlce and what looks like a few other elements in the center.

Basically everything on that picture posted above is correct. To simplify, we can more or less use everything we were NOT using before, and our old areas have been blocked off for other, private, uses.

There are other car clubs that use L'burg as well. I know the Porsche guys run down there on occasion. We ran that section at the TnT last year as well. The grippy tires wears the dirty layer off the top of the concrete - thus the outlines you see.

Thanks, So we have the runway, the taxi way, and that weird funky square with all the cul-de-sacs as our site?

as far as the path's being "cut" into the runway, I think its kind of cool that google map's was able to see that, though it would be cooler if they were to actually catch someone that was running a course out there.

RobLupella · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:34 pm

You know this would make a nice oval course. We could title the event NASCRAP Meets SCCA and run it like an oval with a 90 degree turn on one side. Just no banking.

or........

We could use it like a figure 8 and make figure 8 racing out of it. We wouldn't have to worry about overlap.....well overlap in reverse.

Just a thought.....

Dustin Fredrickson · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:29 pm

JasonWatts wrote:

Dustin Fredrickson wrote:

JasonWatts wrote:

could someone post a big red circle/square around the area we get to use?

also, why does it look like their is a track outlined on there already? in the center strip? I see a figure 8, an big cirlce and what looks like a few other elements in the center.

Basically everything on that picture posted above is correct. To simplify, we can more or less use everything we were NOT using before, and our old areas have been blocked off for other, private, uses.

There are other car clubs that use L'burg as well. I know the Porsche guys run down there on occasion. We ran that section at the TnT last year as well. The grippy tires wears the dirty layer off the top of the concrete - thus the outlines you see.

Thanks, So we have the runway, the taxi way, and that weird funky square with all the cul-de-sacs as our site?

as far as the path's being "cut" into the runway, I think its kind of cool that google map's was able to see that, though it would be cooler if they were to actually catch someone that was running a course out there.

Yup, and here's some motivation for some folks to actually sign up to chair the events there - if I do it there will be a pivot cone in every one of those cul-de-sacs :twisted:

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

Doesn't a 5 minute autox course start getting into like road course territory?

KendtEklund · **Joined:** Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:29 pm **Posts:** 1204

Andrew Jonell wrote:

Doesn't a 5 minute autox course start getting into like road course territory?

You got a problem with that? :twisted:

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:10 am

Dustin,

I was planning that on my own but wasn't sure where to put them all. Thanks for the idea :lol:

RobLupella · **Posted:** Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:36 pm

Andrew Jonell wrote:

Doesn't a 5 minute autox course start getting into like road course territory?

Graham might even come for that if we don't use any cones

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

My course design is gonna be the maxton mile. . .

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