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Muley had a great post buried in the Arkansas Rides Marathon thread. So I thought I'd post up a new thread so that folks might actually be able to find this later.
Oh, and if you have a CMRA license (cheap and easy to get) Oak Hill is $75 and about 3 hrs away. And you'll OWN the track. Not a bad deal at all.
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By Mule Madness:
www.hallettracing.com
some other good place to look for upcoming trackday dates are below
www.lonestartrackdays.com - local organizer based out of texas, no membership required, events usually on Mon. or Fri.
www.ridesmart.info - local organizer based out of texas, no membership required, events usually on Sat. and Sun. sometimes Mon. or Fri.
www.nesba.com - national orgainizer based out of pennsylvania, membership required, events vary
www.sportbiketracktime.com - national orgainizer based out of ohio, membership required, events vary
another good resource are the track websites. look at the track schedule and they'll list what event's have already been booked with that particular track. below is a list of tracks in our area.
Hallett Motor Racing Circut - about 6 hrs
Barber Motorsports Park - about 7 hrs
Heartland Park - about 9hrs
Texas World Speedway - about 10hrs
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I've done the RideSmart thing and I rate it highly. Usually at Cresson at the MotorSports Ranch, just south of Fort Worth, TX. You can either just do a track day ro get instructions from local racers (Ty Howard). Good guy and damned fast.
Lone Star Track Days almost exclusively do track days at Texas World, in College Station. It's an old NASCRAP track so its very big, wide, and flowing. Much bigger than most of the other tracks and the SLOWEST corner is about 70 mph. On a 600 you can be clocked coming off the front straight at about 160 or so. If you are used to the smaller and mort technical tracks this will blow your mind. Think Road Atlanta and you have it.
Kansas has a couple of tracks, there's a track in south Louisianna called Church of Speed.
There's a track in Nashville hosted by Ed Bargy Racing School. But I don't recommend a trip for 8 hrs to that track. Very, very, small - it could fit inside Hallett. But the amenities are awesome - but about the same as Cresson or Tx World.
Every motorcyclist should make the pigrimage to Barber. The museum alone is worth the drive. But they are absolute Nazis about the parking lot. If you spill fuel or oil on the lot you'll pay to have it cut out and repaired. Racers in WERA have complained loudly about racing there, so I don't think even WERA will be returning next year. The security guys hand out pieces of wood to put under your kick stands, and it gets worse from there.
But the track is great. The museum is awesome. The amenities are second to none. But I don't know about club racing there.
Anyway. There are lots of places to go track riding and if you only wanted to be a track junkie you could just about keep you weekend filled going to different track days around the region.
Naturally, some are better than others, but definately worth the time and $$$ IMHO - rather than getting popped or getting run over on the street.
j
Oh, and if you have a CMRA license (cheap and easy to get) Oak Hill is $75 and about 3 hrs away. And you'll OWN the track. Not a bad deal at all.
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By Mule Madness:
www.hallettracing.com
some other good place to look for upcoming trackday dates are below
www.lonestartrackdays.com - local organizer based out of texas, no membership required, events usually on Mon. or Fri.
www.ridesmart.info - local organizer based out of texas, no membership required, events usually on Sat. and Sun. sometimes Mon. or Fri.
www.nesba.com - national orgainizer based out of pennsylvania, membership required, events vary
www.sportbiketracktime.com - national orgainizer based out of ohio, membership required, events vary
another good resource are the track websites. look at the track schedule and they'll list what event's have already been booked with that particular track. below is a list of tracks in our area.
Hallett Motor Racing Circut - about 6 hrs
Barber Motorsports Park - about 7 hrs
Heartland Park - about 9hrs
Texas World Speedway - about 10hrs
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I've done the RideSmart thing and I rate it highly. Usually at Cresson at the MotorSports Ranch, just south of Fort Worth, TX. You can either just do a track day ro get instructions from local racers (Ty Howard). Good guy and damned fast.
Lone Star Track Days almost exclusively do track days at Texas World, in College Station. It's an old NASCRAP track so its very big, wide, and flowing. Much bigger than most of the other tracks and the SLOWEST corner is about 70 mph. On a 600 you can be clocked coming off the front straight at about 160 or so. If you are used to the smaller and mort technical tracks this will blow your mind. Think Road Atlanta and you have it.
Kansas has a couple of tracks, there's a track in south Louisianna called Church of Speed.
There's a track in Nashville hosted by Ed Bargy Racing School. But I don't recommend a trip for 8 hrs to that track. Very, very, small - it could fit inside Hallett. But the amenities are awesome - but about the same as Cresson or Tx World.
Every motorcyclist should make the pigrimage to Barber. The museum alone is worth the drive. But they are absolute Nazis about the parking lot. If you spill fuel or oil on the lot you'll pay to have it cut out and repaired. Racers in WERA have complained loudly about racing there, so I don't think even WERA will be returning next year. The security guys hand out pieces of wood to put under your kick stands, and it gets worse from there.
But the track is great. The museum is awesome. The amenities are second to none. But I don't know about club racing there.
Anyway. There are lots of places to go track riding and if you only wanted to be a track junkie you could just about keep you weekend filled going to different track days around the region.
Naturally, some are better than others, but definately worth the time and $$$ IMHO - rather than getting popped or getting run over on the street.
j