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  1.   Smokefan05 posted:
  07.11.2010 - 10:44 pm
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Takes place on a airport run way. Pretty cool if you ask me. Wish they
would go back there. When i was into OW racing i liked watching races on
Burke Airport.


  2.   DieselDan posted:
  12.05.2010 - 6:18 pm
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This track was a driver's nightmare, as there are no natural features to
use as reference points. Completely flat and open.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.30.2010 - 2:26 am
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It usually produced excellent racing though no matter what the series.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.10.2012 - 3:51 pm
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Located right on the shore of Lake Erie, the airport traditionally hosts
the Cleveland National Air Show each Labor Day weekend.

Burke is not the main airport for Cleveland, that's Cleveland Hopkins
International Airport which also technically lies with the city limits,
and as such it has not had any regular commerical service since 2006.
Instead it is mainly used for business jets and charter flights (it's a
favorite of pro sports teams because of how close it is to the city's
various arenas).

Burke, named for former US senator Thomas A. Burke who had previously
been the Mayor of Cleveland from 1945-1953, has two main runways with
6L/24R and 6R/24L. They are capable of being used for anything up to
Boeing 737 or 757 jets as well as the Airbus A320. Both runways and the
airports taxiways were used in the race track layout requiring a full
closure of the airport on race weekend.

At one point there were plans for the race to switch from being a CART
race to an IRL race for the year 2000 with the track being reconfigured
from a road course to a 1.2-mile oval to fit the IRL's no road course
requirement of the time. The plan fell through when it was discovered
the new pavement needed to create the proposed oval configuration turns
would have required FAA approval and local officials found it excessive
as it did nothing to improve regular airport operations on non-race
weekends. The plan was abandoned and the Grand Prix of Cleveland
remained a CART event until the series' 2007 termination.

The 2003 running of the CART race was a day-into-night event using
temporary lighting. All other runnings were traditional daytime events.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.11.2015 - 9:48 pm
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There are rumors swirling IndyCar could revive the Grand Prix of
Cleveland here at Burke Lakefront Airport in 2017...Hopefully those
rumors have a little truth in them.


  6.   Alex posted:
  02.24.2016 - 6:05 am
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The headers for all the Indy Lights' pages are all messed because
they're missing the "purse" heading.**


  7.   Alex posted:
  02.24.2016 - 7:14 am
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Track was 2.369 miles from 1982-1989 and 2.106 from 1990-2007.


  8.   Jeff Wagoner (ARCA Results Archive) posted:
  12.26.2017 - 4:03 am
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Probably one of the only road courses where you could really see
everything. It was a cool track, though both years I went to the CCWS
race up there were ungodly hot.


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.10.2019 - 12:01 am
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When FedEx was CART's title sponsor they had a neat habit of making sure
one of their big white-and-purple jets would be sitting on the tarmac at
this airport away from the race track portion so it could serve as a
large advertisement for the company.


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