Yep, it is an awesome track and great facility (still in the works, but good already).  The Dart Kart group did a fantastic job as usual.   We were allowed to drive carefully to/from our pits for practice and there were no catastrophes.  (eye-roll)   I wish more tracks would allow that.

The problem is Bob, as I recall, this event was a pretty late entry for this calendar year.  So it dropped on top of a WKC event at Summit Point, WV and the KART Nationals.  And as most on here involved with event scheduling know, by this time of year most org’s like WKA, WKC, KART, etc, are finalizing their schedules for 2018.  And to make it worse, most organizations and clubs have little say on what dates are offered and where.

For instance, the WKA has nearly completed it’s 2018 road race schedule, and the WKC is in the very final stages as well.  I know there were WKC members that would have liked to try Pittsburgh, but we already had our event on the books since late 2016!!!  And our members tend to be very strong supporters of the WKC and the WKA.

Let’s hope for the best for the 2018 Pittsburgh event.  But they also must be aware of what others have already scheduled.

Take care,

Clark Gaynor Sr.

WKC Board Member.

WKA, NRRC Member

Yeah

A lot of us joked saturday morning that we need a GPS to figure out if the track goes right or left after some of those huge hills, you learned to trust your gut to hit the apex’s correctly. This track was very enjoyable for everyone, plenty of safe passing, very smooth , even had a mini corkscrew!!! (turn 3 and 4 pretty much)

This was only my second national event but I was really impressed by the orginzation, the friendly ladies  at Registration constantly answering my questions about various things, the intercom was also very helpful! The event was run flawlessly, we had a pretty good turnout considering the other races going on that weekend. It’s nice because up in the North East the closest track is Summit, VIR, Mid Ohio, and now this amazing facility.

Heres a practice video since my other videos are taking there sweet time to render.