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In 2 weeks San Jose will have celebrated their very first Professional auto race through the streets of downtown San Jose. Now Long Beach is no longer the only street racing circuit in California and San Jose now joins the ranks of other famous street courses such as Toronto and Monaco.

The race weekend will be on July 29, 30 & 31 and will be comprised of races and demonstrations over that 3 day period consisting of:


Champ Car World Series
Toyota Atlantic Championship
Trans-Am Road Racing Series
US Touring Car Championship
Historic Motor Sports Association
Formula D Drift

Several local CL members will be attending, including myself, kokonutz, drnknfoolio and edgy will be coming up from LA to attend as well.

For more info go to www.sanjosegrandprix.com

I also have one extra ticket available. It is for the Silver Grandstand #4A. These are primo reserved seat tickets and this location is one of the first grandstands that have sold out.

You are smack in the middle of the main straight where the cars will be approaching 190mph. This is a 3 day ticket that includes paddock pass and reserved seating for all 3 days.

I only have one ticket. Cost including service fees is $145. PM me ASAP if interested. Ebay soon !




• 1.6 miles in length

• 11 turns

• A classic hairpin turn on Almaden Boulevard, which is Turn 3

• Biggest deceleration on Champ Car circuit

• Almaden straight-away speeds will reach 192 mph and
decelerate to 42mph entering the hairpin

• Track is running in a clockwise direction

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Here's the layout of the track and surrounding area.

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FEATURE RACE:

The Champ Car World Series
The Champ Car World Series race features an international field of world-class drivers expected to include: Former Series Champions Jimmy Vasser (1996) of Morgan Hill; Cristiano da Matta (2002); Paul Tracy (2003) and Sebastien Bourdais (2004); plus Ryan Hunter-Reay, Mario Dominguez and A. J. Allmendinger of Los Gatos.

SUPPORTING RACES:

Toyota Atlantic Championship
The Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama is the premier open-wheel development series in North America. The championship is noted for its long history of graduating its stars into Champ Car competition and has helped produce past Champ Car champions like Tracy, Vasser, Bobby Rahal, Danny Sullivan, Michael Andretti and Jacques Villeneuve.

Trans-Am Road Racing Series
The Trans-Am Series features closed-fendered, production-based, V-8-powered sports cars, competing on permanent road courses and temporary street and airport circuits throughout North America. The Trans-Am Series is America's oldest continuously running road racing series and celebrates it 40th consecutive year of competition in 2005.

United States Touring Car Championship (USTCC)
USTCC is one of the best-known touring car racing series in the U. S. It features some of the fastest drivers in the country battling wheel-to-wheel in high performance versions of everyday road cars. The cars retain the shape of their mass production counterparts, but are bona fide racing machines.

Historic Stock Car Racing Series (HSCRS)
HSCRS is committed to the restoration and preservation of authentic and historic NASCAR stock cars while providing for their continued competition in a safe and entertaining environment.

Formula Drift
Formula Drift or "drifting" is the hottest new form of motorsports. "Drifting", which originated in the mountains of Japan, is the art of controlling a car sliding sideways with drivers judged on style and showmanship, rather than speed.

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I just happened to be driving downtown on Saturday and low and behold they are starting to install the concrete walls. Also notice how the parts of the street that the track is located have been completely paved over smooth and the lane stripes are not painted.


This is the view of Almaden Blvd. The cars would be going down the main straight on the left hand side of the trees. They will be hitting toward 190mph and entering the hairpin turn where the heaviest braking of any track will occur and they will slow to 45mph to make the hairpin. After exiting the 180 degree haipin, the cars would be coming towards you in the picture, going up the street the opposite way and would be turning left at this intersection (moving towards the right from this view).

My grandstand seat is located on the left side at the corner. I can see cars at top speed going in front of me and I can see them going the opposite direction and turning left toward the park ave straight.

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Here's the view coming from the other side of Almaden Blvd. They should be braking right about here from their 190 mph top speed.

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Here's the view exiting the 180 degree hairpin turn.

You can see that the large island in the middle of the street has been cut through and a few palm trees have been removed.

And too bad that UFO came in the view just as I snapped the pic.

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The holes in the ground were obstacles added to the race course.

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I'll be posting more pics of the progress of the track as the race week nears.

Stay Tuned

tkracing

Lots of good info! I would like to buy the extra ticket if still for sale. Thanks

rominl

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hahha, isn't this a classified post?

anyway, it's definitely big event man, i see flyer and flags everywhere now

kokonutjc

Here is 2 more pics from todays observation......

This from Almaden, view of the grand stand and suites on top



This one is on Balbach St. One side of Balbach St. is all stands

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And that tent behind the grandstands is the most HUMONGOUS tent I've ever seen. The photo shows less than half of it. Almost looks permanent.

Wonder what's going in there?

kokonutjc

I've heard this a temporary convention center area because SJ Convention center is remodeling some of the inside...

Drukinfoolio

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Wow!
Can't wait til next weekend.

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Here's another view of the main grandstand. This side of the street is where the pit stops will take place.