Originally Posted by rhhack
A hint about walking around RA - the red Georgia clay dust is virtually impossible to remove from you shoes after spending the weekend at RA. The dust that is kicked up by all the traffic over the 4 day event will keep one busy for days cleaning your car (or in out case, the RV’s).
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+1 on that! Late one Sunday afternoon years ago, there was an absolute downpour which combined with thousands of cars leaving the site at once (at the conclusion of the race) to turn the entire area around the track into a quagmire. When I sold my car four years later, there were still signs of red clay in the wheel wells, the underside of the car, and under the hood despite meniacal efforts to clean those areas. The floormats simply had to be tossed - there was no saving them!
As for pictures, I recommend turn 10a, which is especially fun to watch at night as the rotors glow when the cars deccelerate as they come down the hill into the 90 degree left-hander. I also think standing at 4 and looking up the track, or at 5 and looking down the track, as they come through "The Esses" provides great shots.
There also used to be (it's been a number of years since I've been, unfortunately) a nasty little bump the cars would hit as they accellerate out of turn 8. If you had a quick lens, you could catch a car going airborne for a fraction of a second there. It made for some very cool pictures!
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