$100 for a track only Hall and his employees are allowed.
Here is a diagram I drew of the facilities.
Outside the facility was the Chap. 2F
Here's is Jim Hall's office
Aerial picture of the track
What's currently house in the south end garage
To the right was Gil de Ferran's car.
To the left is Jim Hall's Lotus (from the tour guide)
Dyno Room
The garage at the north end
Here are the notes I got from this from the tour guide. This was built on a partnership with Hap Sharp in 1961. The south end garage was up then following year Hall built the north end and the east end (the dyna room) was built by someone I forgot to drop down. There was 13 full-time employees working for him in the 60s-70s. In Germany a local dealership (Opal from what I heard) gave them a stall for their operation in Europe.
The shuttle taking a lap on the track when this guy sat behind me gave what's it like.
Mike Pokabella (sp?) was the team engineer in 60s and 70s.
I have photos of the track taken inside the van looking ahead. I will post them once I got through editting the photos. Here's a description of the track. One single lane, goes clockwise. There's a "skid pad" just going into the first 90 degree corner. The last corner is a double apex fast corner to decreasing exit. According the Pokabella, the car would get on the brakes hard from 175 MPH entering the corner to 45-50 MPH exiting. If not, they would skid and likely hit the south end garage. A lap around the track would be around 55 seconds. No fence, just shrubs of weeds, grass, and dirt. Jackrabbits was a problem during testing.
More coming soon.....
