Orlando Speedworld = Big Fun

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01GTB

Discussion Starter · Feb 21, 2002

Well not really. As some of you might notice, I usually have some kind of rant about this place. Last week at Funday Sunday (ironically it really isn't fun) I sat in line for over 5 hours for one 1/8 mile run. Tonight was equally as exciting.

I got a whole 1/4 mile run tonight! Woohoo! Just before I got my "one" run, someone oiled down the top end of the track. It was 9:15. They announced it would take about 20 minutes to clean up. If this were true, I could get back in the staging lanes before the 10pm cut-off. But as anyone who has been to Orlando knows, cleanup will take exactly how many ever minutes it is until the staging lanes close. In other words if it happens at 9:15, cleanup will take 45 minutes. If it happens at 9:45, it will take 15 minutes. Get the idea? Well, as you might guess they finished their cleanup at 10:02 and promply announce "the staging lanes are now closed".

On top of this, I get to look at two stock Civics sitting in the waterbox while the cleanup is going on. Orlando + FWD cars + water = stellar numbers for the people behind them :roll: And that was just the case.

I can report that I can still run 13.97 with a 2.26 short time. I sure am glad I heated the hell out of the Nittos for that. Orlando really is like a circus that caters to a bunch of clowns in rice.

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01GTB

Discussion Starter · #4 · Feb 21, 2002

Speaking of what car oiled down the track, I'm not sure what it was. But now that you bring it up, there was a 70's primered Camaro or Bird ahead of me

One of the first things I noticed last year was how the bikes could keep running around and around. That has not seemed to be as much of a problem the last few times out though.

On top of that, they held the racing up long enough to let the rain come in too. I forgot to mention, I had water drops on the windshield at the top end. They weren't about to hold up though. Just before I left I saw a LS1 run like 16's at 65, obviously letting off at the top end for some reason :roll: I stuck my headlight back in and left, so I'm not sure if all the cars behind me even got to run :???:

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01GTB

Discussion Starter · #5 · Feb 21, 2002

On 2002-02-21 14:11, 01GTB wrote:
Speaking of what car oiled down the track, I'm not sure what it was. But now that you bring it up, there was a 70's primered Camaro or Bird ahead of me

One of the first things I noticed last year was how the bikes could keep running around and around. That has not seemed to be as much of a problem the last few times out though.

I forgot to mention, they held the racing up long enough to let the rain come in too. I forgot to mention, I had water drops on the windshield at the top end. They weren't about to hold up though. Just before I left I saw a LS1 run like 16's at 65, obviously letting off at the top end for some reason :roll: I stuck my headlight back in and left, so I'm not sure if all the cars behind me even got to run :???:

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