Checking out Beaver
Saturday was a long, yet productive day at BeaveRun. The goals were to get everybody oriented with driving the car at speed, and to shake out the pieces on the car that need attention before a 3000 mile road trip.
The facility itself felt fairly new and the main center we went for orientation must have been constructed last year. The track itself was small, in comparison to running Watkins Glen. Really you have two straight sections forming one end of pure fun with twisty turns and one end with a complete cluster of hate with turn 10 that sucks. Turn 10 is the more than 90 degree, uphill, off camber turn that really has no fun way of running without pissing off the safety instructors. We all agreed later the only thing that could make that turn fun would be to drive it sideways as if you were in a drifting challenge.
For such a nice facility, they need to call somebody to pave the entrance road to cater to lowered cars. We literally had to crawl in and out of the place as it resembled more of a paved logging trail than a road.
There is no paddock at the place, which helped our decision to skip going Sunday morning as we were relying on tarps and gargbage bags to keep the gear dry. The trailer will certainly need some water proofing to make the wet days easier.
