Lime Rock Park
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| Road Racing Center of the East | |
|---|---|
 Track layout | |
| Location | Lakeville, Connecticut, USA |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (UTC-4 DST) |
| Owner | Skip Barber |
| Operator | Skip Barber |
| Broke ground | 1955 |
| Opened | 1957 |
| Major events | American Le Mans Series Grand-Am Rolex & Continental NASCAR Camping World East Series Vintage Festival SCCA |
| Website | https://limerock.com/ |
| road course | |
| Surface | asphalt |
| Length | 1.53 miles (2.46 km) |
| Turns | 7 |
| Banking | N/A |
| Race lap record | 43.112 seconds (P.J. Jones, , 1993, GTP) |
Lime Rock Park is a natural-terrain motorsport road racing venue located in Lime Rock, Connecticut, United States, a hamlet in the village of Lakeville, Connecticut, in the state’s northwest corner. The track is owned by Skip Barber, a former race car driver who started the Skip Barber Racing School in 1975.
Track
For years, the track was listed as being 1.53 miles in length -- the story goes that right after it was built, somebody used the odometer in a Chevy to measure the track length -- and 1.53 was taken as gospel. Following the 2008 reconstruction (see below), Lime Rock's operations people measured all four possible configurations, and as it turns out, each was 1.5-miles long, plus or minus a few hundred feet. The "classic" configuration is 7 turns, while the three optional layouts are 8, 9 and 10 turns.
History
The track was also the home track of Paul Newman, who supported his own Newman-Haas team.[1]
Two years after the park first opened in 1957, the Lime Rock Protective Association, with support from the nearby Trinity Episcopal Church, took the park to Litchfield Superior Court in an effort to ban Sunday racing. The court issued a permanent injunction against Sunday racing and its decision was upheld by the Connecticut Supreme Court. Although park officials have expressed a desire to return to limited Sunday racing, the injunction stands to this day.[2]
Today
References
- ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/newman_own_will_not_enough_to_find_eioKeyiGuBjtHuUNH83JlN
- ^ Lime Rock Park Floats Idea of Renewed Sunday Racing- Lakeville Journal - December 8, 2005
External links
- Lime Rock Park website
- Skip Barber Racing School (Uses Macromedia Flash)
- January-March 2006 Construction photos
- Trackpedia guide to driving Lime Rock
- Lime Rock Park page at Trinity Lime Rock
41°55′40″N 73°23′01″W / 41.927688°N 73.383599°W
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