I was talking to my downstairs neighbor about the upcoming Daytona 500 race, and the topic came around to road races. I told her that I would much rather watch a road race than a oval race -- too boring on the latter.
Anyway, she started telling me that Dale Earhardt Jr., was asked to race a course marked out on the streets of NY. My mind started racing as to the implications. She told me that part of his course took him past the Rockefeller Center. During his racing (about 10 laps or so), he blew out 2 windows on the NBC building too!
By now, I am frothing at the mouth!! She gets done telling me about this -- and I ask her where she found out about it. She went on to tell me that she read it possibly at NASCAR.com, or maybe somewhere else on the web. At this point I couldn't control my excitement anymore -- I tell here that GT4 is introducing a NY Road Course. I told her the general layout is Washington Circle --> Time Square --> 42nd St., -->then making it's way over towards Rockefeller Center and up to SE Central Park, then back over to Washington Circle.
She went on further to tell me, that he was asked to do this as if he were running a regular road course (like Watkins Glenn, in upstate NY), and that he was just doing it for a test.
As I sat there pondering the possibilities, it started to make logical sense, that he MAY HAVE BEEN doing it for GT4. Think about it, a real race car driver is asked to run a road course on the streets of NY, run it like he would any other road course -- and it just happens to take him past Time Square AND Rockefeller Center. To me, all of these things add up to it. She is going to do some digging (as well as I am) and see if we can confirm any of it. Look at the map in the Wallpaper section of this site, and pull up the NYC track -- then blow it up to see the street names -- too many similarities to pass out of hand!
Anyway, she started telling me that Dale Earhardt Jr., was asked to race a course marked out on the streets of NY. My mind started racing as to the implications. She told me that part of his course took him past the Rockefeller Center. During his racing (about 10 laps or so), he blew out 2 windows on the NBC building too!
By now, I am frothing at the mouth!! She gets done telling me about this -- and I ask her where she found out about it. She went on to tell me that she read it possibly at NASCAR.com, or maybe somewhere else on the web. At this point I couldn't control my excitement anymore -- I tell here that GT4 is introducing a NY Road Course. I told her the general layout is Washington Circle --> Time Square --> 42nd St., -->then making it's way over towards Rockefeller Center and up to SE Central Park, then back over to Washington Circle.
She went on further to tell me, that he was asked to do this as if he were running a regular road course (like Watkins Glenn, in upstate NY), and that he was just doing it for a test.
As I sat there pondering the possibilities, it started to make logical sense, that he MAY HAVE BEEN doing it for GT4. Think about it, a real race car driver is asked to run a road course on the streets of NY, run it like he would any other road course -- and it just happens to take him past Time Square AND Rockefeller Center. To me, all of these things add up to it. She is going to do some digging (as well as I am) and see if we can confirm any of it. Look at the map in the Wallpaper section of this site, and pull up the NYC track -- then blow it up to see the street names -- too many similarities to pass out of hand!
