John250
PR Founding Father
Yeah, I know. No one needs to give opinions on CTMX, its all good. But I am going to say a few things.
I showed up at 7:45 Sunday, and still had plenty of awesome parking to choose from, never an issue at CTMX. Walk up to the transponder trailer, pay my money and right over to sign up. Large signs with, "Qualifying", "Membership", "pre-registration" and "registration".......Telling people exactly where to go for which. Walk up to registration, use the kiosk and I was out of there. All took less than 5 minutes.
Walking around, the improvements catch your eye for sure. Scoring tower, start moved to back side. Tons of new fencing etc. They obviously re-invested profits from last year into their facility to make it better for everyone. They even had fern plants on the tables at the registration trailer, and around the tongue of the trailer to spruce up the place a bit!
Vendors, lots of them. Tons of food options, Ohio motorsports for your parts needs, Amsoil, 4-H selling candy, the CMA passing out free water, etc. Best track food by far, with plenty of selection!
Guys driving around picking up trash all day long. My son was in the last moto, we cleaned bikes and all before we pulled out. I could not believe how clean the grounds looked after all day.
PA was great. Can hear it clear out in the pits. Rt. 62 last week, had a guy riding through the pits with a bullhorn to tell people they were starting the motos. Announcer was announcing local sponsors throughout the day too.
Program ran smooth. Started on time at 10:00am, and first set of motos and intermission was completed at 1:30 and back into the 2nd set.
Pit vehicles. Seemed to be few!! Not sure what they have done but there are way less, and no one cruising around. Great job changing it.
Track. Changes to the start are great for racing. Liked the first corner going into the rollers. While it was nice being able to see the start and the track in the old location, the new location makes for a much more efficient program. Next moto can start before the last few bikes are off the track. CTMX even had a sprinkler system put in the ground to water the gate area! You have all that water, would be awesome to have permanent sprinklers around the track!
I liked the layout of the track and the changes. Decent lap times, and not a slow track I love fast tracks. Track prep was great. Morning practice was not a muddy mess, and prep during day was good. Start was keep real nice.
The one thing I did not like.........yeah there had to be something. The 10 or so humps on the inside of all the corners. A few are ok, but I did not think that that many of them helped the racing. The straight next to the start became inside, inside, inside, and the humps get all dug out. I think racing in that section would be better without them. The step up in the middle seemed to be the spot to cause the most crashes. I know Griffen Maxwell and another guy both went to the hospital. I think it might have been the ruts on the face kicking them. Rest of the jumps were great.
CTMX doing all the little things has really set the bar high these days for every track in the country. Great job Jeremy and crew. Looking forward to the battle weekend.
I showed up at 7:45 Sunday, and still had plenty of awesome parking to choose from, never an issue at CTMX. Walk up to the transponder trailer, pay my money and right over to sign up. Large signs with, "Qualifying", "Membership", "pre-registration" and "registration".......Telling people exactly where to go for which. Walk up to registration, use the kiosk and I was out of there. All took less than 5 minutes.
Walking around, the improvements catch your eye for sure. Scoring tower, start moved to back side. Tons of new fencing etc. They obviously re-invested profits from last year into their facility to make it better for everyone. They even had fern plants on the tables at the registration trailer, and around the tongue of the trailer to spruce up the place a bit!
Vendors, lots of them. Tons of food options, Ohio motorsports for your parts needs, Amsoil, 4-H selling candy, the CMA passing out free water, etc. Best track food by far, with plenty of selection!
Guys driving around picking up trash all day long. My son was in the last moto, we cleaned bikes and all before we pulled out. I could not believe how clean the grounds looked after all day.
PA was great. Can hear it clear out in the pits. Rt. 62 last week, had a guy riding through the pits with a bullhorn to tell people they were starting the motos. Announcer was announcing local sponsors throughout the day too.
Program ran smooth. Started on time at 10:00am, and first set of motos and intermission was completed at 1:30 and back into the 2nd set.
Pit vehicles. Seemed to be few!! Not sure what they have done but there are way less, and no one cruising around. Great job changing it.
Track. Changes to the start are great for racing. Liked the first corner going into the rollers. While it was nice being able to see the start and the track in the old location, the new location makes for a much more efficient program. Next moto can start before the last few bikes are off the track. CTMX even had a sprinkler system put in the ground to water the gate area! You have all that water, would be awesome to have permanent sprinklers around the track!
I liked the layout of the track and the changes. Decent lap times, and not a slow track I love fast tracks. Track prep was great. Morning practice was not a muddy mess, and prep during day was good. Start was keep real nice.
The one thing I did not like.........yeah there had to be something. The 10 or so humps on the inside of all the corners. A few are ok, but I did not think that that many of them helped the racing. The straight next to the start became inside, inside, inside, and the humps get all dug out. I think racing in that section would be better without them. The step up in the middle seemed to be the spot to cause the most crashes. I know Griffen Maxwell and another guy both went to the hospital. I think it might have been the ruts on the face kicking them. Rest of the jumps were great.
CTMX doing all the little things has really set the bar high these days for every track in the country. Great job Jeremy and crew. Looking forward to the battle weekend.
