Did anybody notice that if you add up all the
distances this track was about 25 3/4 miles long with
about 40 corners depending on how you count them??
--- Derek Harling <derek.lola@home.com> wrote:
> Wonderful - I understand VDCA is thinking of using
> this old course for their
> next Savannah race.
> Derek
>
>
> Jim Hill wrote:
>
> > No aerial photo available, and it's not a course
> likely to be remembered or
> > resurrected, but if you want to see what a "REAL"
> road course looks like,
> > take a look at the map of the "Grand Prize of
> America Automobile Road Course
> > at Savannah and Chatham Co. Georgia" of 1908:
> >
> >
>
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1908c4.jpg
> >
> > Which makes careful note of the fact that no steam
> railroads, passengers or
> > cars cross the race track, and that all trolley
> line tracks are bridged
> > over.
> >
> > Jim Hill
> > Madison WI
>
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