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aeronca65t

aeronca65t

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Just occurred to me to post this here, in case anyone in the northeast USA is interested.
Normal street cars are OK. Bring helmet. Convertibles need roll bar.

This is NOT the new NJMP in Millville, but the track at Englishtown, NJ that was built three years ago but mired in local politics....it's finally open.
For reference, Englishtown is roughly in the middle of New Jersey (and only a 45 minute tow for me!)

There's been lots of pro and con comments about this place...a lot of folks say it's a "go cart track". But I've read that about the Shenandoah track (at Summit Point) too, and it's one of my favourite tracks.
Others say it looks like a decent Time Trial, HPDE, small bore or vintage-level track.

I'm headed down there now to see for myself (with vid camera)

Here's the info from the E-town site:
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Friday 12-5pm, Saturday 10am-3pm, Sunday 10am-5pm.

Tryout the New Raceway Park Road Course for FREE

1 Weekend Only…Fri-Sat-Sun June 6-7-8

To celebrate the official opening of the road course, Raceway Park will be opening it to the public for free lap time over the course of three days, June 6th, 7th, and 8th.
Just show up to try it out. 250 per day limit.

More Info including track map (click on Road Course)

https://www.etownraceway.com/
 
I will have to let my brother know of this, he lives about the same distance south of Englishtown as you do north (Eastampton)! He has a subaru WRX that should offer some entertainment on a tight little track such as you describe!!! :thankyousign: :thumbsup: :cheers:
 
OK, it was fun. Not sure if we could run a real race here...maybe an HPDE or TT. Here's a video of the track;

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They have 10 configurations and this one was the tightest (and slowest). They used this since there was a lot of drivers with no experience (it's next to a drag strip and many of the folks were 1/4 milers). A guy following me in a new MINI had telemetry that said average lap speed was only 40 mph.
I used 3rd gear to 7200 in the straight and most turns were 2nd gear at 7000+ rpm.


Scott (blvkcorvair) was there the day after me.
 
Mounted that windscreen top bar perfectly to obscure my view of the course. How'd Mazda do that? :smirk:

That looks like it could be fun! I like tight. Have you done anything to the Miata suspension, Nial? It appears to stay good and "flat" thru there.
 
Yeah...I just threw the Escort camera mount on the Miata roll bar. It's a Hard Dog bar designed not to impede the convertible top (with real glass), so it's a bit low. A guy with a Mustang duct-taped a camera to his roof....I'm not that nutty.

The Miata is bone stock just as I bought it new in '01. Same shocks, springs, etc. It has about 70,000 miles on it.

And, since one of the normal rear tires (Yoko E100 summer tires) was funky, I temporarily put on my Conti Winter Contact snow tires on the back recently.
So that video was done with snow tires on the rear....real tail-happy! If I'd had time, I would have put the Toyo RA1s from the Escort on it.
 
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