US GP in Austin

[Matt Stephenson]

Anyone know if there will be a Kart event that weekend? Yes I know its a ways off still.... Might be fun to make a big splash as club if there is. I read that they are planning on having kart racing at the track eventually, would be cool if they have some the weekend of the GP.

[Yaani-Mai Gaddy]

Matt,

They are planning a kart track at the facility
http://www.formula1unitedstates.com/masterPlan.html

The area for the kart track is here
http://www.formula1unitedstates.com/ima ... r_Plan.pdf

This is going to be great for our sport. Lots of promotion for karting. It sounds like it is going to be a concession type track. Hopefully they will also have plenty of big kart race events too.

[James Freeman]

Matt,

The following link is to the Autoweek website and it highlights many concerns of State and local government offices. In a nut shell; access to the proposed track area is limited and would require millions to be invested into infrastructure above and beyond the track facility.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20101008/f1/101009894

Jim

[Bob Schabel]

Jim, yea, the first thing that i noticed when looking at the proposed layouts in the above links was that there was one road in and out of the facility. Good luck with that

[Jim Loomis]

Looks like it's right off or near(less than a mile) the SH 130 Toll Road, which is similar to I-35. There are two access roads from SH130, one from the north and one from the south, with a possible future road from the west. The road to the south appears to be 4 lane on their master plan, it's currently a 2 lane FM road. The road to the north appears to be a 4 lane divided highway almost all the way to the track location. The road to the west appears to be a small two lane road and would need much improvement to handle that kind of traffic.

If you match their picture up on google this appears to be the location.
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS342US342&q=30.138967%2c-97.637901

So with that in mind, it's not much different than a lot of other tracks across the country. If I remember right 114 was a two lane road when TMS opened up, and there was really no other access to the north and small outlet to the west.

I think the thing that could hinder them most would be the floodplain problem. There appears to be the potential for a lot of water to roll through that property when the storms hit.

Jim