GT3RS at Atlanta Motorsports Park
Lap-time at the new Atlanta Motorsports Park facility

Well after all the "will there or will there not" be a track and 2 years of questioning. We finally have a track. It opened up to members this weekend for the 1st laps before any organization had the chance to get on the track and that might have been a great thing. The track is very technical and absolutely no grip and barely any room for error at high speed. It could've resulted in a lot of carnage for an opening weekend.

So for the members 1st laps it went back to the old school follow the leader behind an instructor with NO PASSING. We actually had a chance to go at a decent pace as the instructor tried to lead at a decent speed after a few laps, but we a had yellow vette in front of me that had to short shift b/c he couldn't pass the 98db limit and he had on hoosier wets when then was absolutely no water on the track

I know everyone was wondering about the sound limit, that is still up in the air. I never went full throttle but i only have stock center muffler with side muffler delete. Seth Thomas had his 4.0 RS out with stock exhaust and he was safe at 96db. We'll have to see how any car with a sharky bypass and etc will do.

As for the track, you definitely will be busy in the drivers seat constantly turning, braking, and shifting with no real straight away on the entire track. It has the technicality of Barber, if not more since its shorter than barber by only being 2 miles long. there's guard rail every where with not a lot of room for avoidance maneuvers which will be interesting to see once you get 30 cars on the track and something goes wrong. It even starts coming out of the pits as its the tightest pit out I've ever been through and its a blind corner as you will see from the video.

1st Slow Laps at AMP - YouTube

There still is a lot of work left to be done as there is no room for everyone to bring a truck and trailer. There are no gas pumps and they dont even have booths for the corner workers yet. However, there is a track and time will tell how well the track does.

 

Def. reminiscent of Barber. Technical with a lot of elevation changes. Gotta say those tracks out east are a lot prettier to look at than out here. Nothing but dirt/desert wastelands.

And man, your car was just dying to get out of third!
Thanks for the vid.

 

That track looks like a blast honestly.

 

Looking forward to getting out there!
Had to miss the soft opening this week, been outta town.

 

Yea I could've short shifted and it will be a shift to 4th with more speed

 

David, are you a member?

 

Looks like it could be a fun track down the road...but man, do you exhibit extreme patience following grandma in the yellow vette!

I'd have passed him and gotten tossed out, I'm sure. Nice work, slow, but nice.

 

Trust me I thought about passing him more than once

 

Congratulations!!

Do you have a map of the track? It looks very very technical with no room for "offs". It might be ideal for racing but IMHO not ideal for hosting DE's with newbies at the track.

 

Great post mate, love that you guys are getting these GT3's out where they belong!