Dec 3. PMP Plans Roadcourse Upgrades.. PMP General Manager Jay Gilman announced today that
PMP will make some changes to the roadcourse configuration for 2008. Turn 10 will be changed to a 90degree right hand turn by moving the apex of the turn some 60 feet to the south of the existing apex. This change will negate NHRA’s requirement that the concrete walls be moved into the edge of the straightaway as was originally mandated by June 2009.
Martyn Thake of Motorsports Consulting reviewed the track late in the summer and this was one of his recommendations for the track’s improvement.
Other suggestions dealt with corner station placement, additional curbs, and the pit-on road.
PMP will undertake resurfacing from the exit of turn 9 into turn 10 and moving the dragstrip burnout box further downtrack to minimize varying track surfaces that upset roadrace vehicle suspensions.
Other changes will include moving the berm before turn 8 back some distance and installing gravel runoffs at turns 8 and 10. The pit on access will be widened and a merge lane painted to prevent a potential problem with racers accelerating onto the track and those coming down the main straightaway at speed.
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