Going for a drive today.

"oldirtybootz" (oldirtybootz) 01/01/2014 at 12:01 • Filed to: None

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To find an old racetrack.

Bad Idea Hat > oldirtybootz 01/01/2014 at 12:08

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I wish you good luck, and warn you that you should not get your hopes up.

daender > oldirtybootz 01/01/2014 at 12:13

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A racetrack on Long Island? Bridgehampton Circuit?

Takuro Spirit > oldirtybootz 01/01/2014 at 12:21

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Pretty sure that's a golf course, dude.

TSLA > oldirtybootz 01/01/2014 at 12:26

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If you can get in don't forget to take pictures for us!

oldirtybootz > Takuro Spirit 01/01/2014 at 14:53

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Yeah mostly, but bits of the track are left.

oldirtybootz > TSLA 01/01/2014 at 15:38

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I couldn't go and not take pictures!

oldirtybootz > Bad Idea Hat 01/01/2014 at 15:40

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I didn't expect much, but the front straight is the road to the clubhouse of the golf course. It's actually really nice there.

oldirtybootz > daender 01/01/2014 at 15:43

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That's the one!

Bad Idea Hat > oldirtybootz 01/01/2014 at 17:06

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The US Grand Prix should have been held here. Someone should have turned this track into the US Grand Prix destination. It was close to the largest metropolitan area in the United States, it was in a pleasant locale, and it was a beautiful track. It could easily have kept up with changes in F1 track design.

All it needed was some investment and local love, and it got neither. This and Riverside are two really, really, extremely sore spots I have in motorsport. If I were ever to become king of the world, I'm razing the developments covering both tracks, and bringing them back and up to date.

oldirtybootz > Bad Idea Hat 01/01/2014 at 17:41

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If I ever somehow have the money necessary for it, I'd definitely buy the land and rebuild the track. Standing on that straight, you just think of all the cars and drivers that have driven it, it's a cool experience. Blasting down that straight in my car was pretty cool too.