View Full Version : Pacific Raceways proposes modernizing Kent, WA road course
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/272343_racing01.html
If Kent does get revamped to modern standards it could be another permanent road course for Champ Car to look at, since it is near a major metropolitan center.
http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/pacificr.jpg
2.25 miles with and elevation change of nearly 200 feet. USRRC, Trans Am, and USAC raced there in the 60s.
One can dream...
needs some more turns, but more road more better.
It's a beautiful layout - the paddock is like a nice camping spot with pine trees surrounding the area. The track winds through forest, it's almost Nurburgring-like.
It would take A LOT of modernization to be safe for Champcar, which will likely ruin the cool atmosphere of the current track. But, Sears Point was modernized and still has it's "soul", IMO, so it can be done.
Dr. Corkski
06-02-06, 01:27 PM
It would take A LOT of modernization to be safe for Champcar, which will likely ruin the cool atmosphere of the current track.Beach volleyball could only improve the atmosphere. :gomer:
that far north it would be granola basketball, not so cool... ;)
I think the idea of lowering the track surface twenty feet and creating a "natural" sound wall around the track is an interesting concept. It makes the track more friendly to encroaching development while creating great GA seating with blankets and beer coolers all aroung the circuit.
Now just add Musco lighting with a high UV content for all night beach volleyball and tanning and I'm there!
devilmaster
06-02-06, 03:28 PM
I think the idea of lowering the track surface twenty feet and creating a "natural" sound wall around the track is an interesting concept.
Maybe TB or someone else can help me out.... Wasn't Rockingham (England) buried as well?
devilmaster
06-02-06, 03:29 PM
Now just add Musco lighting with a high UV content for all night beach volleyball and tanning and I'm there!
That cuts out the all important Albino demographic......
that far north it would be granola basketball, not so cool... ;)
Ultimate frisbee.
oddlycalm
06-02-06, 04:23 PM
Now just add Musco lighting with a high UV content for all night beach volleyball and tanning and I'm there! A little competition for the Portland raceway / beach volleyball center would probably be a good thing about now, even if it never actually happened. People are never as quick to dump (or relocate) something they have when someone else is after the same customers. Human nature and all that...
oc
Ultimate frisbee.
ultimate requires clothes, plus i kick f'ing ass at it :D
I oppose the ISC deal because I don't want taxes to support another sports stadium. Too many people are looking at the deal saying "When we have a track, NASCAR will be here". NASCAR might be here, but it won't instantly be the Nextel racers like people are assuming.
I would support the upgrades to Pacific Raceways. It's not going to cost the taxpayers anything, and it looks like they want to do something about the noise issue so the neighbors won't complain as much. But, unfortunately, most people only think of Nextel Cup when people say "racing".
devilmaster
06-02-06, 04:48 PM
I oppose the ISC deal because I don't want taxes to support another sports stadium. Too many people are looking at the deal saying "When we have a track, NASCAR will be here". NASCAR might be here, but it won't instantly be the Nextel racers like people are assuming.
I would support the upgrades to Pacific Raceways. It's not going to cost the taxpayers anything, and it looks like they want to do something about the noise issue so the neighbors won't complain as much. But, unfortunately, most people only think of Nextel Cup when people say "racing".
Hope you copy this to your local politicians, and to opinon pages wabbit.......
Hope you copy this to your local politicians, and to opinon pages wabbit.......
I've told my local reps, but they probably won't listen. They didn't listen about Safeco field.
Pacific Railways proposes modernizing Kent, WA road course
Why of course, install some light rail lines and CC will be there! :p
Michaelhatesfans
06-03-06, 01:16 AM
It's a fun track, but it's definitely time to update it. It looks more like Rouen on GPL than a modern facility. Wait, what the hell am I saying? Leave it alone!
:laugh:
http://www.pacificraceways.com/gallery/2005/sovren/1_417.jpg
manic mechanic
06-05-06, 09:53 PM
[QUOTE=pchall]I think the idea of lowering the track surface twenty feet and creating a "natural" sound wall around the track is an interesting concept. It makes the track more friendly to encroaching development while creating great GA seating with blankets and beer coolers all aroung the circuit./QUOTE]
This may sound odd, but creating a "natural sound wall" would pizz off a few local residents (my dad and step-mom) who actually enjoy the sounds that travel up from the track as it is, and they have lived 1 1/2 miles up the highway (Lake Morton) for 15 years now.
Needless to say, I'd LOVE to see ChampCar there..I wouldn't need a hotel room or anything!!! :D
manic
Who is this guy CART License, and WHY is his wife wearing Dan Wheldon's shoes??? :p
Mike Lawler
06-05-06, 10:39 PM
A little competition for the Portland raceway / beach volleyball center would probably be a good thing about now, even if it never actually happened. People are never as quick to dump (or relocate) something they have when someone else is after the same customers. Human nature and all that...
oc
I hope Portland continues on the schedule for next year but with the continued low gate count, the city imposing a new 9:00 a.m. sound ordinance , I expect Johnson will drop it like a hot potato .
Pacific Raceways is closer to Vancouver thus might produce a larger fan base.
That would be nice to see.
Here's another one just up the road from me, it camea while ago about what coulda been a great track now.
http://www.meadowdaleraceway.homestead.com/
http://www.miroldpix1.homestead.com/58oldpix.html
and now http://www.homestead.com/mirpix/
poke around on all of the links on this page, there's lot's of cool old stuff, too much to keep posting links on, some are 2 or 3 deep.
ultimate requires clothes, plus i kick f'ing ass at it.
:rolleyes:
I'll bring a disc to RA. You bring your "D" game and some flatbread. :p
Here is our field in CO.
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/andyjung/CIMG0389.jpg
TOUCHDOWN ! ! ! !
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/andyjung/CIMG0394.jpg
[QUOTE=pchall]I think the idea of lowering the track surface twenty feet and creating a "natural" sound wall around the track is an interesting concept. It makes the track more friendly to encroaching development while creating great GA seating with blankets and beer coolers all aroung the circuit./QUOTE]
This may sound odd, but creating a "natural sound wall" would pizz off a few local residents (my dad and step-mom) who actually enjoy the sounds that travel up from the track as it is, and they have lived 1 1/2 miles up the highway (Lake Morton) for 15 years now.
Needless to say, I'd LOVE to see ChampCar there..I wouldn't need a hotel room or anything!!! :D
manic
Who is this guy CART License, and WHY is his wife wearing Dan Wheldon's shoes??? :p
It's funny you say that some will be offed, because all the way down in the Auburn Valley, I have a friend who loves to hear the sounds from SIR, when the Drags come there! I have actually sat on their back deck and listened to the nitro motors from there.
Now don't blast me for not going, but I have my reasons!
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