ea_sport
ea_sport New Reader
2/20/09 7:55 p.m.

http://jalopnik.com/tag/race-track-driveway/?id=5156906

Hmmm...nice backyard.....

DirtyBird222
DirtyBird222 HalfDork
2/20/09 9:29 p.m.

that is amazing, i might have to take a detour on my way to sebring

NYG95GA
NYG95GA Dork
2/20/09 10:44 p.m.

Now THAT'S cool!

Grtechguy
Grtechguy SuperDork
2/21/09 7:49 a.m.

sweet... wish I even owned that much acerage

nervousdog
nervousdog New Reader
2/21/09 8:03 a.m.

Love it.

I also daydream about owning enough land to make some dirt rally trails.

suprf1y
suprf1y New Reader
2/21/09 10:10 a.m.

Thats got my little track beat

cwh
cwh Dork
2/21/09 10:13 a.m.

All I've got is an I-95 entrance ramp.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
2/21/09 11:28 a.m.

I have the cloverleaf where the Garden State..parkway and the atlantic city expressway meet

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
2/21/09 11:31 a.m.

I curently have a 100 yard snowX drag strip

thatsnowinnebago
thatsnowinnebago GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
2/21/09 4:29 p.m.

I have one assigned parking spot for two cars

carguy123
carguy123 Dork
2/21/09 5:31 p.m.

Mine's more like half of that. I've got about a 1/4 mile autocross course. I could have put in a straight road, but I curved it around a pond and followed a deer path thru the woods back.

The neighbors are taking bets upon when I'll go off and take out the neighbors fence. At one point I'm only about 3' from the neighbor's fence.

I looked for a google earth pic of the place but the maps they are using for our area are over 7 years old based upon the construction showing up next door.

gcassidy
gcassidy None
2/21/09 8:05 p.m.

I wonder which direction he runs it. Anti-clockwise going to work, and clockwise coming home?

Kramer
Kramer Reader
2/21/09 8:22 p.m.

When I was about 13, the 75-acre field beside our house was planted with Sudan grass for a summer (the .gov paid not to plant corn/beans/wheat, so Sudan grass was planted to prevent erosion without depleting nutrients). The Sudan grass looked like corn to non-farmers, as it grew to about 6' tall.

My father took the road grader (my family has a lot of excavating equipment sitting around) and cut us a road course dirt track. It was probably 1/2 mile around. We ran the wheels off a '74 Ford wagon and every motorcycle/atv in the neighborhood. I really learned to drive that summer.

gcassidy
gcassidy New Reader
2/22/09 8:47 a.m.

I also got to wondering if the guy who lives in the house in the photo should open a concession stand out of his back window?

JFX001
JFX001 HalfDork
2/22/09 10:11 a.m.
Kramer wrote: When I was about 13, the 75-acre field beside our house was planted with Sudan grass for a summer (the .gov paid not to plant corn/beans/wheat, so Sudan grass was planted to prevent erosion without depleting nutrients). The Sudan grass looked like corn to non-farmers, as it grew to about 6' tall. My father took the road grader (my family has a lot of excavating equipment sitting around) and cut us a road course dirt track. It was probably 1/2 mile around. We ran the wheels off a '74 Ford wagon and every motorcycle/atv in the neighborhood. I really learned to drive that summer.

That's one part about that country that I didn't like, no really good roads around Novi/SL. I lived close to 10 mile and Currie. Alot of gravel roads for sliding, but not many curves.

Karl La Follette
Karl La Follette Reader
2/22/09 11:09 a.m.

That is cool we have a atv track at the hunting camp but this is way way cooler

sachilles
sachilles Reader
2/22/09 11:40 a.m.

Wonder what the paving cost would be?

Kramer
Kramer Reader
2/22/09 1:56 p.m.
JFX001 wrote: That's one part about that country that I didn't like, no really good roads around Novi/SL. I lived close to 10 mile and Currie. Alot of gravel roads for sliding, but not many curves.

I grew up in western Ohio, where the gravel roads were paved in the '60's. I learned how "drifting" works watching Indy 500 drivers race around Eldora Speedway.

Carson
Carson HalfDork
2/22/09 5:12 p.m.
gcassidy wrote: I wonder which direction he runs it. Anti-clockwise going to work, and clockwise coming home?

I'd never make it to work, it would be call in sick, run all morning one direction, all afternoon the other. Everyday. Until they caught on and I'd have to find another job. Repeat.

RedS13Coupe
RedS13Coupe New Reader
2/22/09 6:58 p.m.

I have ALWAYS wondered why you don't see this kinda thing more often. Plenty of ranch homes out there, instead of a mansion I would have a small home, big garage and race track in a heart beat.

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