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Old 08-11-2008, 03:08 PM
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Default Who in their right mind would install berms like this on a race track..sheesh

<center><img src="http://www.ghidinelli.com/life/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=2 9030&amp;g2_serialNumber=3"></center><p>This is what I contended with this weekend at Thunderhill. I stayed away from them like the plague. (the new berms)
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The repaved Lime Rock also has new high concrete berms
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Guess they don't want you shortcutting, eh? Better than the k-rails at a street course
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Like street racing,wow they are big. You could bend rims easily or catch one and hop .
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Default wonder what their reasoning was for making them so high? trying to keep

water off the track? Surely it is going to ruin a lot of wheels. Maybe they will rethink them and take them back out.
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You go sidewides into one..and you are gonna roll
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I say get the grinder out and start grinding
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Default They did the same thing couple years ago at MidO...

We had teh first weekend after they did it....they were stupidly high...we came back out Sunday Am and they shaved them down.
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Geez, looks like Limerock or Watkins Glen!
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Default Pat..its really bad

I dunno about you..but I was on the berm at T8..and T9...and T10...and sometimes on T6....I dont think I hit that berm at the end of T3 before..so that isnt that much of an issue. The new pavement needs rubber on it to be grippy.
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