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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.12.2009 - 10:35 am
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Ron Rainwater's lone Winston West top-5


  2.   schraderfan posted:
  04.26.2016 - 12:12 pm
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Does anybody know exactly what the old short configuration was like?
Just bypassing turn 7 would be a lot longer than 1.7 or 1.8 miles.


  3.   Tylor Thaber posted:
  04.26.2016 - 12:54 pm
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There wasn't a bypass of the carousel in 1987, that was built about ten
years later. I've looked quite a bit and have no clue what this
circuit's layout was.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.26.2016 - 1:56 pm
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The road course used parts of the drag strip in this era. Could they
have just gone straight down it and connected with the later portions of
the normal road course after the carousel?


  5.   schraderfan posted:
  04.27.2016 - 9:01 pm
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The chute didn't exist yet, so they had to go uphill from turn 6.

They could have gone the drag strip straight uphill from the
start/finish line to turn 7. That might fit the high lap speeds.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.27.2016 - 9:09 pm
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Stock cars running almost the full NHRA quarter-mile? That would have
been cool to watch if that's how they did it.


  7.   schraderfan posted:
  04.27.2016 - 9:30 pm
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According to
http://www.autoracinglegendsofcalifornia.com/sears-point-international-raceway/ "the shortened course substituted the long drag strip for the hilly section and proved very pobupar with the drivers". So that seems to be indeed the case. Possibly the 1.8 mile version went up to turn 7 and the 1.7 mile version had a right hand hairpin before that.


  8.   schraderfan posted:
  04.27.2016 - 9:34 pm
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popular...


  9.   Burl Hatterley posted:
  08.04.2017 - 4:35 pm
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I was there. They utilized the drag strip. It made for a great circuit
an pretty fast speeds.


  10.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.12.2019 - 9:14 am
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Dave Byrd makes his lone Winston West start but ended up on the
sidelines at about the halfway point when the transmission failed in his
Buick. The California racer would be more successful in the later years
racing in the Southwest Tour.


  11.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.12.2019 - 9:17 am
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Reigning series champion Hershel McGriff starts off his title defense
with a victory as he picks up the first of his two wins this season.
This was McGriff's third, and last, victory at Sears Point.


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