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Help me out guys and gals, What the heck is that mountain off the back straight?? My first time there, I had seen the mountain in video's before but the don't do justice to how big that thing is.
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No it's not. It's a mine. Phosphate I believe.Comment
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This^^^^^^^^^^^Originally posted by luke81 View PostWhere is the move over flag when you need it?????Comment
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Wow....Thanks guys. My first thought was a landfill, but I'm glad I ask the question. Explains all the old drag line buckets I seen traveling up 41. Again appreciate it!!! And for what it's worth, I seen alot of talk about 1 lane track on here when I got home. While it wasn't top to bottom racing, the racing was pretty dang good in my opinion. I will go back in the future!!Comment
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Track looked better than most years this year... maybe lack of rain and two a day races helps.Always carrying my 2 Crown JewelsComment
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Where did you get that info? It's obviously not a landfill.Originally posted by dalemcfan View PostComment
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Pretty sure its a gypsum(sp?) mine. Look at it from google earth it has a huge pond on the inside of the four sided hill.If your getting passed,YOUR AS SLOW AS ME !!!!Comment
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Tide of the bay really has much to do with the track conditions than anything else at eastbay. Really strange Sandy, seashell, clay track surface. From the port area around, to the mine on the backside, to the junk yard next to it, it truly is an interesting place. Really cracked me up with all the worry about track curfew in that area. Apparently they don't like being bad neighbors to the traveling circus folk that live to the south during the winter.Comment
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tb1545, I screwed up my first day and depended on my phone for directions to the track. It sent me down the road before the race track, (coming from the south), straight into a huge trailer park. Very unique people in there to say the least. As soon as I turned in, police cars, probably 20 people standing around, crime scene tape, and part of a mobile home destroyed. Don't know what happened, but couldn't get out of there fast enough....lolComment
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The curfew is no BS, they're serious about it. While it seems to be in the middle of nothing there are just enough people around that complained to just the right people to get it imposed. When you leave the track if you go to the right north up rt41 to the first light and make a right you'll run right into one of the largest housing projects in the entire Tampa area. Apparently the noise of race cars interrupts their drug deals and drive-bys.Comment
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What is the nick name for those projects, drove back and fourth thru it 4 times last year. gf has family that live in area and they had some name for it.Originally posted by luke81 View PostAlways carrying my 2 Crown JewelsComment
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Thats a Lm grave yard for all the drivers that dumped there old chassis for longhorns! Fl was the only state that would take them.
THEY CALL IT DAVENPORT MOUNTAIN!THE REAL SLIDING SIDEWAYS!Comment
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Isn't that the famed temple terrace district your talking about?Originally posted by WisWildManFan View PostWhere is the move over flag when you need it?????Comment
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Yea temple terrace... That was it BBQ. Was pretty sketchy driving through after the races lolOriginally posted by Barbecueboy View PostAlways carrying my 2 Crown JewelsComment
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