15. Lauf RSL Historic F1 Championship - Lime Rock Park

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Lime Rock Formula Ford SCCA Race Aug. 11, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mz_RegNic0

2 laps around Lime Rock Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAMg7OOx6yA

Quote: http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/CT/LimeRock.html

Lime Rock Park

Lime Rock Park is a 1.53 (1.54 with the chicane) mile road course located in Lime Rock, Connecticut, in the extreme Northwestern corner of the state. There is a Kart Track at the top of the hill which is often used for Kart racing events in conjunction with SCCA Club Racing events. The track is located on CT Route 112, just east of Millerton, New York and south of Lakeville, CT.

The track apparently has an arrive-and-drive program for kart racing.

Pro races make up a very small part of the Lime Rock Schedule; one or two SCCA National races and a large number of SCCA regionals occur at the track during the course of a year, as well as a large number of Club Dates put on by organizations such as the Porsche Club of America, the BMW Car Club of America, Bonnet & Boot, and so forth. Finally, the East Coast headquarters of the Skip Barber Racing School is located nearby in Lakeville, and Lime Rock is one of the most popular sites for Barber schools and races.


Track Facts
Elevation: 550 to 590 feet
Latitude: 41.927314
Longitude: -73.384638





Historical Note

Lime Rock Park was built in the mid to late 1950s by Jim Vaill, on the site of a cornfield/gravel pit on land owned by his father. Vaill's friend Jack Fisher owned an MG-TC, and they often drove it rapidly in circles in the cornfield at the top of the hill; in real life Vaill operated the gravel pit that was on the site, in the north face of the hill (the gravel pit was located roughly where the A Paddock restrooms and the Driving Impressions store are now located.)

A rumor developed that a race track was being built on the site, and a number of SCCA members showed up to investigate one day in 1955. Upon reflection, Vaill decided that a race track sounded like a good idea to him, so he laid out a course on an aerial photograph, selected one of his bulldozers, and went to work. He relocated Salmon Creek to the north side of the main straightaway; to this day, heavy rain storms give the impression that Salmon Creek is trying reestablish itself in A Paddock.

Vaill's original plans were for both the short circuit that we know today, and an extended 3 mile long "Mountain Circuit", which would have used the hill east of the track. The trees were bulldozed for the mountain circuit, but it was never built. The path of the "Mountain Circuit" may be traced today on foot by the intrepid.

Lime Rock Park opened in 1957, and has hosted a remarkable variety of races over the years, including most of the various IMSA series, American LeMans Series, most of the various SCCA series, and the NASCAR Busch North Series. The facility is too small to support Indycar, Formula One, or NASCAR Nextel Cup. In recent years Lime Rock has repaved the entire track, widened the pit lane, significantly improved the restrooms, and paved the roadways through the paddock.

Lime Rock is not beloved by all the residents of the area. Since 1963, Lime Rock has operated under the terms of a consent decree that limits the noise levels and operating hours of the track. As a result, there is never any Sunday racing at the track; unmuffled dates are restricted to a specific number of Fridays, Saturdays, and Holidays; and operation of race engines is limited to a specific range of hours of the day (which varies according to the rather complex terms of the consent decree.)



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