Summit Point Shenandoah Circuit

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Summit Point Raceway Shenandoah Circuit

  1. Bill Scott designed this track to be the ultimate teaching track and it has a lot to offer
  2. Range Esses, Runoff
  3. In Car

Summit point Shenandoah’s pretty technical, very tight, and most turns are crowned, so there’s alot of off camber turning on the outside line.  It was an awesome race.

  1. The Shenandoah circuit is full of blind corners with lots of trail braking, late apexing, and off camber. It’s the hardest course I’ve driven in 20 years of driving. It eats brakes and is hard on tires.
  2. Summit Point Shenandoah is a giant autocross with a couple of “gotchas” thrown in. It is a 2.3 mile course with 23 turns. It is VERY easy for smaller wheelbase cars to run down high horsepower monsters and overtake. It is a great “training track”, but I would not want to race there as the surface is very narrow and there is minimal run off room.
  3. We arrived in Winchester VA at 1:30am and get a decent nights sleep before heading over to Summit Point Raceway. At Summit point we are running the new Shenandoah Circuit. This is a very technical and dangerous track. There is virtually no run off area an
  4. over the hill (under the bridge) and over the hump down into the karousel. The karousel unto itself is fun but the scary part is that at the speeds we are carrying over the hump cars WILL get airborne
  5. fantastic collection of technical corners. It felt like half the track is off camber or on an elevation change,
  6. Shenandoah circuit which is a lot of fun. There are blind corners, off-camber corners, blind off-camber corners, a “jump” at the top of a hill, and a re-creation of the carousel banked corner from the Nurburgring Nordschleife (sp?).
  7. That’s Summit Point Shenandoah circuit, arguably THE most technical course on the East coast! The section you’re in the middle of in the 2nd picture is tough for me. It’ll definitely get your attention with its off camber and several changes in direction coming out of the carousel which in itself is a blast. Then it dumps you out into the back stretch with a little dog leg in the middle where you hit some of the highest speeds on the course only to end in a 180
  8.  Bill Scott as my chauffeur. Man this is a crazy course …  They were paving near the Nurburgring turn, so I walked that. I think he said that was 20 degrees. I think they should put an industrial size trampoline up on the other side for a soft landing, because if you go off there, you will be airborne. Quite a few off camber turns and so many turns linked together that if you screw one up,….well. That is the bad thing, don’t screw up because there is a wall nearby (or will be) on almost every corner.

we tore that track a new asshole. I really can say that this Shanendoah course is a blast and offers everything a track should offer. Although the high speed straight is not that high speed it is still quick enough at around 135mph. The corners offered everything including off camber, uphill, downhill, increasing radius, long sweeping, etc

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