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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.18.2016 - 7:20 pm
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One of the more infamous/fun street courses, this tight and bumpy track
was set up in downtown San Jose and featured two crossings of the city's
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail train tracks. In
2005 the CCWS cars famously went flying almost every time one went over
the tracks. Thankfully this was repaired for the future runnings of the
race. On the plus side the circuit did pass the city's Plaza de Cesar
Chavez park.

The CCWS replaced Laguna Seca with this race, a weird choice in
retrospect but given time they would have reversed it. After the 2007
season the San Jose Grand Prix was to be discontinued because of new
downtown developments that would have made continuing to use the course
impossible, specifically a housing project alongside one of the
straightaways and a construction project that took over the property
used for the main grandstand. Champ Car planned a 2008 return to Laguna
Seca to make up for it but it didn't come to pass after the IndyCar merger.


  2.   23andJoe posted:
  08.19.2016 - 4:14 am
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The track in 2007 was known as "Redback Raceway" due to a naming-rights
deal with Redback Networks.


  3.   Anonymous posted:
  03.20.2021 - 7:34 am
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The shot of the cars bouncing/flying over the tram crossing is one of
the craziest things I've seen, it's like something out of the 1950s.
Champ Car was wild lol


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