When I first started Autocrossing in the late 80’s with the Southern WV Region (SWVR) of SCCA we used to have two “autocrosses” at this place…
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(location in case that link doesn't work... long: -81.87908 lat: 38.45800)
It is owned by Henry Payne (Payne Engineering). He had the skid pad (should be easy to see) with a short “road course) that runs right through the middle of the skid pad. On the back half of the road course there was a 1/4 mile section that ran up the hollow and at the end turned into a hill climb with a number of switchbacks. It finished up near the start of the road course section. You can see the 1/4 drag at the top, but the hill climb is hard to see. I believe Henry is still active in Vintage racing and has a nice stable of cars (Porsche 904, 907, 908 and 910). With the two events, we had one that ran the road course. If I remember correctly there was one car on track at a time and we did two flying laps. It was probably closer to a TT than Autocross, but we ran it as a Solo II event. The other event was the hill climb (with the 1/4 mile run included).
I was just a kid out of high school at that point and was borrowing drives in other people’s car (Renault Encore YUCK!) and eventually autocrossing a significantly under prepared Porsche 914. I wasn’t worldly enough yet to realize that you just didn’t see people bringing something like a Porsche 904 to an autocross on a regular basis. I just didn’t understand the entire “coolness” factor that existed then until I had moved away and it was all over. I don’t keep in touch with anyone from SWVR, and from looking on their website, they don’t list events at Payne Engineering anymore.
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Richard Casto
1972 Porsche 914
2013 Honda Fit Sport
2015 Honda Fit EX
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