[just_a_fan]

I just kind of hang out after the races and wait for the folks that are in a big hurry to leave. Drove right out of the race track with no problems.

[sw1911]

I experienced the same thing there last year and that was probably the straw that will stop me from driving to Bloomington from St Louis. Nowhere is the exit traffic that vicious.

[wtvwrocks]

Originally Posted by sw1911 I experienced the same thing there last year and that was probably the straw that will stop me from driving to Bloomington from St Louis. Nowhere is the exit traffic that vicious.

I enjoy going there - they have a beautiful facility, great cheeseburgers & ice cream. The racing has been mediocre in the past years that I have gone but I'm giving the new promoters the benefit of the doubt. I just worry that something will happen (someone gets ran over and sues) and that will be the end of racing there....

Again, it's a great problem to have if you have so many cars that exiting is a pain.....and I agree oncoming traffic from that hill on Fairfax scares me....

To the above poster - it was me that the guy turned right in front of me from the left lane. There was a car coming up that hill that I didn't want to pull out in front of.

[illiNOISE]

Originally Posted by sw1911 I experienced the same thing there last year and that was probably the straw that will stop me from driving to Bloomington from St Louis. Nowhere is the exit traffic that vicious.

It won't keep me from making the trek from St. Louis.

Race track parking lots can quickly fall subject to the law of the jungle. I drive a small car, and have seen trucks and SUV's speed up when they see me try to merge into the line getting out. Whatever, when I finally do make it onto the highway, I'll be getting 35-40 mpg, while they get closer to 10-15 mpg.

One of my other pet peeves about racetrack behavior are the folks who will double park. If there's no parking attendent or cop parking fans, I try to pull a few feet farther forward than necessary. I hate doing this, but not as much as I hate getting trapped in by some big F-450 or Excursion parked perpindicular to me, front and back. (Whose drivers likely got there five minutes before the first heat pushes off, while I arrived an hour to two before hot laps.