New Morwell Track

[Blue]

The first event at the new track is supposed to be on 06 July, it is looking pretty awe inspiring. From memory the bitumen is 6.5M wide.

I have had a walk around it during construction and I can tell you it is going to be a lot more scary to drive than the old track, as well as around three times as long. There are a number of blind, cresting, off camber corners and spots where the track is going to just disappear from in front of you. Think of going over Skyline at Bathurst.

[Blue]

Just to add to my last post. I found some video footage this morning of the last working bee day at the new hillclimb. People that showed up to help were allowed to drive around it gently to have a look, it will be a challenge to go fast on. I think mid range grunt and quick spooling on turbo cars along with good traction and a complete lack of understeer will be the keys to a fast run. And there are a few corners that should be able to be strung together for those that are into drift (Assuming they are going to run drift events there)

[Bec]

^^ thats the same clip Id posted.

Hopefully it doesnt 'disppear' again.

Thanks Blue.

[Blue]

Funnily enough I missed the link you posted when I was reading through the thread Bec. Hopefully it stays up this time. I am really looking forward to having a run there but I reckon that it will be quite a few runs before I would be looking for the limit. A couple of spots look pretty unforgiving of mistakes (The Eau Rouge moment at the very bottom of the track for one)

I think anything with any sort of straight line performance is going to require a lot of respect until at least the half way point of the run where you start heading up again.

[Russman]

Some more pics that I got through a mate.

[phunky_monkey]

I'm excited!

[vsute]

Hmmmm Its looks driftable

How would they feel about a bit of sliding there???