http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2010/5/10824.html (http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2010/5/10824.html)
Dude that's gonna be awesome. Wonder where they will put the track.
I don't know man. The article discusses the proximity to downtown, but I don't know where they could fit it in the city [laugh]
All I know is that I have several places in Austin I can stay over a weekend (BOL, inlaws, etc.), and I am already planning ahead for 2012 [evil]
How much do you think tickets will go for?
I have no idea what the tickets will cost. I'm sure I could wrangle up a place to stay. If not, home is an hour and a half away.
You do know there are people here in this forum, such as myself, that do live in austin and are more than willing to lend you a couch for the night.
Quote from: Le Pirate on May 26, 2010, 11:20:16 AM
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2010/5/10824.html (http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2010/5/10824.html)
welcome to derby-ism http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=38781.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=38781.0)
Quote from: zooom on May 26, 2010, 11:46:10 AM
welcome to derby-ism http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=38781.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=38781.0)
ppsshhh.
I don't venture outside of NMC. I feel safer here.
I can't see the article but I assume F1 in Austin?!?!
They were going to have Super Moto when I was living there but it seems like it was cancelled. The track was near downtown
FANTASTIC! [thumbsup] [thumbsup]
Quote from: Porsche Monkey on May 26, 2010, 11:29:14 AM
Dude that's gonna be awesome. Wonder where they will put the track.
did they ever build on the old airport property? That'd be a good spot. Just watch out for stray bullets from I-35 ;D
They should route it on the lower deck of 35, the sound would be absolutely fantastic!
That's the home of the world's shortest entry ramps! [bang] I lived in Austin in the 70s when they built that I-35 double decker through downtown. My driveway is longer than those ramps and they're blind, you can't see the traffic flow to your left. You are just dumped immediately in the right lane with highway speed traffic running right up your ass! You need a F1 car so you can get up to speed fast!! [laugh]
Still cool this is coming to Austin. [clap] They got everything needed to support the race and the fans. Hope they pull this off successfully. [thumbsup]
not only this but there are some awesome routes just outside Austin like Bandera...........come all and we'll reserve an entire hotel and then ride like a pack of 1%'ers. [thumbsup]
Quote from: El Matador on May 26, 2010, 11:37:47 AM
You do know there are people here in this forum, such as myself, that do live in austin and are more than willing to lend you a couch for the night.
Of course buddy. I was just waiting for you to make it to the party. [beer]
Quote from: muskrat on May 26, 2010, 01:42:38 PM
not only this but there are some awesome routes just outside Austin like Bandera...........come all and we'll reserve an entire hotel and then ride like a pack of 1%'ers. [thumbsup]
Yeah it totally sucks that Bandera is a whole 30 minutes from my driveway. ;D
Quote from: fastwin on May 26, 2010, 01:39:52 PM
That's the home of the world's shortest entry ramps! [bang] I lived in Austin in the 70s when they built that I-35 double decker through downtown. My driveway is longer than those ramps and they're blind, you can't see the traffic flow to your left. You are just dumped immediately in the right lane with highway speed traffic running right up your ass! You need a F1 car so you can get up to speed fast!! [laugh]
Still cool this is coming to Austin. [clap] They got everything needed to support the race and the fans. Hope they pull this off successfully. [thumbsup]
the same guys must've designed the old US75 north of downtown dallas. same entry ramps.
Quote from: fastwin on May 26, 2010, 01:39:52 PM
That's the home of the world's shortest entry ramps! [bang] I lived in Austin in the 70s when they built that I-35 double decker through downtown. My driveway is longer than those ramps and they're blind, you can't see the traffic flow to your left. You are just dumped immediately in the right lane with highway speed traffic running right up your ass! You need a F1 car so you can get up to speed fast!! [laugh]
Still cool this is coming to Austin. [clap] They got everything needed to support the race and the fans. Hope they pull this off successfully. [thumbsup]
Ever been on a Parkway in Long Island? The ramps are frighteningly short and half of them end up directly into residential neighborhoods.
Try accelerating with a moving truck & car hauler onto the highway from the ramps in Amarillo!
I did enjoy the u-turns though under the overpasses in TX! [evil]
Quote from: IZ on May 26, 2010, 09:02:43 PM
I did enjoy the u-turns though under the overpasses in TX! [evil]
i have no idea why they don't do that elsewhere...
Quote from: derby on May 26, 2010, 09:07:51 PM
i have no idea why they don't do that elsewhere...
At first, I thought they were useless but after moving back to AZ and having to wait for long lights to turn around. :P
TX has it right!
We've seriously thought about moving back to Austin these last few weeks and now with F1 coming into the picture..
I didn't think that place could get any better!! [thumbsup]
Austin ranked #1
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10-best-cities-for-the-next-decade (http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10-best-cities-for-the-next-decade)
Well come on then. [thumbsup]
I really hope this happens, but I'm just a bit sceptical that they can put this in place in 2 years, when they have not even purchased the land yet.
Quote from: Porsche Monkey on May 27, 2010, 02:44:35 AM
Well come on then. [thumbsup]
Don't know what I was thinking when I left?!
Quote from: SA_S2R on May 27, 2010, 03:55:20 AM
I really hope this happens, but I'm just a bit sceptical that they can put this in place in 2 years, when they have not even purchased the land yet.
If it's privately funded, then it shouldn't be too terribly hard to do, see Barber in Birmingham, AL.
yesssss, just moved to texas. This makes one thing that i like about it so far ;D
Quote from: Paper5tr3et7 on May 27, 2010, 06:23:41 AM
yesssss, just moved to texas. This makes one thing that i like about it so far ;D
Whereabouts?
Quote from: Paper5tr3et7 on May 27, 2010, 06:23:41 AM
yesssss, just moved to texas. This makes one thing that i like about it so far ;D
where you at, man?
Anyways, my wife was talking to the in-laws last night, and I got her to ask her dad (they live in the austin area). From what he said they are building somewhere over near the airport. He also said something about the city wanting the state to put up part of the money for the construction? He said they mentioned something about that on the news a couple nights ago.
Anyways....by the airport is good with me. We can go visit the inlaws, and I can be at the track on race day without driving all the way through the city [thumbsup]
Quote from: Paper5tr3et7 on May 27, 2010, 10:51:14 AM
North of Houston in the woodlands.
[puke] you moved to the wrong part of Texas.
no joke, hopefully only here for 6 months or so. Lots of yuppies up this way. May live in austin for a while after this.
Hope you get out of there and to some place better. Don't come here to Dallas. I'm a native and have earned the right to say this place can suck. There are days it should be nuked from orbit! [bang] The hill country is pretty damn cool... what's left of it. When Austin grew into the small TX version of silicon valley all that money came with it (and the people) and they just started paving over the hills. Used to sit on top of Mount Bonnell in the 70s and all you could see was Lake Austin and tree covered hills. Well... at least the Lake is still there, they couldn't pave that over. :P
Quote from: Paper5tr3et7 on May 27, 2010, 12:14:54 PM
no joke, hopefully only here for 6 months or so. Lots of yuppies up this way. May live in austin for a while after this.
You still a bicycle courier?
Quote from: ducpainter on May 27, 2010, 01:54:32 PM
You still a bicycle courier?
never a bicycle courier, those things are dangerous they don't have engines.
was a moto courier and not currently... just left pa with no real plan but to wonder around for a while. ;D
You need to face north and then take a quick left.
Quote from: Porsche Monkey on May 27, 2010, 03:02:14 PM
You need to face north and then take a quick left.
He's right.
California is great.
You stay out of this rocket surgeon. ;D
Quote from: Paper5tr3et7 on May 27, 2010, 02:37:23 PM
never a bicycle courier, those things are dangerous they don't have engines.
was a moto courier and not currently... just left pa with no real plan but to wonder around for a while. ;D
Give me a break dood...
I'm old.
So two wheels and Knight is saying to turn left.
Tell him to make his own moves. ;D
I've been thinking about getting out to cali again, used to live in venture and got plenty of friends that live in studio city. gotta finish rebuilding the monster and finish the argument with penndot about the validity of my license ;D
Quote from: ducpainter on May 27, 2010, 03:24:25 PM
Give me a break dood...
I'm old.
same old excuses [roll]
Quote from: Paper5tr3et7 on May 27, 2010, 03:34:24 PM
same old excuses [roll]
It's poor form for a young person to roll eyes...
just sayin' [laugh]
Quote from: ducpainter on May 27, 2010, 03:37:04 PM
It's poor form for a young person to roll eyes...
just sayin' [laugh]
Just jealous because my eyes aren't petrified in place [laugh]
Quote from: ducpainter on May 27, 2010, 03:24:25 PM
Give me a break dood...
I'm old.
So two wheels and Knight is saying to turn left.
Tell him to make his own moves. ;D
Wtf gramps? I said turn left not Knight. Step away from the bottle. I don't make the beast with two backs mooooses.
Quote from: Porsche Monkey on May 27, 2010, 04:52:29 PM
Wtf gramps? I said turn left not Knight. Step away from the bottle. I don't make the beast with two backs mooooses.
he's got moose humper on the brain
Must be. Thats what happens with senility. :D
Quote from: fastwin on May 27, 2010, 01:01:47 PM
at least the Lake is still there, they couldn't pave that over. :P
What lake are you referring to?!
OK..it was Lake Austin.
Lake Travis is the one that is evaporating (my old backyard).
1/13 piers open last summer because the lake was 20'+ low!! :-\
Quote from: Porsche Monkey on May 27, 2010, 04:52:29 PM
Wtf gramps? I said turn left not Knight. Step away from the bottle. I don't make the beast with two backs mooooses.
You and Knight are the same person.
I'm certain of it. [laugh]
Quote from: ducpainter on May 28, 2010, 02:27:09 AM
You and Knight are the same person.
I'm certain of it. [laugh]
Doh you figgered me out. [laugh]
Texas........I have no use for it,but there are some very nice folks that live there. Don't get me wrong its like any other state, a few folks I dont agree with upsetting me, but this is a big story that can affect the way that education goes in this country.
And the other thing is The UN. The UN was born out of ww2 and has been used to serve humanity in many different areas. It is a good organization and having travelled all over the world and seeing how its good work does save lives stop genocides help with education, disease,medical and hunger relief for miliions and millions of people I am for the the UN. Teexas in my view is wrong. Maybe one the school board members needs to go to Kosovo and speak with someone whose son husband etc was btually mudered. The UN stopped that with the help of Nato. Maybe they need to go to Darfur to a camp of 300,000 starving people and see how the UN distributes food donated by our citizens, how they clothe and feed and how the doctors save lives on a daily basis. Miracles worked. MI have friends who volunteer their vacation time as nurses to go to these far off places and help for free. And yes my friends ride Ducatis.
The following may be too political a story and you may feel it does not belong. If so moderators please remove and my apologies in advance.
From the BBC World Service.
Texas schools to get controversial syllabus
Page last updated at 0:03 GMT, Saturday, 22 May 2010 1:03 UK
Texas' decisions could influence curriculums across the US
Education officials in the US state of Texas have adopted new guidelines to the school curriculum which critics say will politicise teaching.
The changes include teaching that the United Nations could be a threat to American freedom, and that the Founding Fathers may not have intended a complete separation of church and state.
Critics say the changes are ideological and distort history, but proponents argue they are redressing a long-standing liberal bias in education.
Analysts say Texas, with five million schoolchildren, wields substantial influence on school curriculums across the US.
The BBC's Rajesh Mirchandani in Los Angeles says publishers of texbooks used nationally often print what Texas wants to teach.
Jefferson out
Students in Texas will now be taught the benefits of US free-market economics and how government taxation can harm economic progress.
They will study how American ideals benefit the world bu organisations like the UN could be a threat to personal freedom.
And Thomas Jefferson has been dropped from a list of enlightenment thinkers in the world-history curriculum, despite being one of the Founding Fathers who is credited with developing the idea that church and state should be separate.
The doctrine has become a cornerstone of US government, but some religious groups and some members of the Texas Education Board disagree, our correspondent says.
The board, which is dominated by Christian conservatives, voted nine-to-five in favour of adopting the new curriculum for both primary and secondary schools.
But during the discussions some of the most controversial ideas were dropped - including a proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade".
Opponents of the changes worry that textbooks sold in other states will be written to comply with the new Texas standards, meaning that the alterations could have an impact on curriculums nationwide.
I hate deleting content.
Your post is political.
Please don't do it again.
this thread took a hard right down buzzkill ave.
badgalbetty, go find a politics board and leave your rants there or PM me because I too have traveled the world and have seen things I never want to so much as think about again.
I'm not a Texan by birth but live here now and can say that this State has done some things right and some things wrong......frankly it's got a lot going for it like the economy and real estate but because of the vastness it takes long hours to get to places like Big Bend, Hill Country (depending on where you live) so on and so on. Although I love Austin the traffic there has got to be the worst in the State, second only to the 405 freeway in Cali. :P
Quote from: muskrat on May 28, 2010, 10:55:00 AM
badgalbetty, go find a politics board and leave your rants there or PM me because I too have traveled the world and have seen things I never want to so much as think about again.
I'm not a Texan by birth but live here now and can say that this State has done some things right and some things wrong......frankly it's got a lot going for it like the economy and real estate but because of the vastness it takes long hours to get to places like Big Bend, Hill Country (depending on where you live) so on and so on. Although I love Austin the traffic there has got to be the worst in the State, second only to the 405 freeway in Cali. :P
We can lane split ;D [moto]
Quote from: MrIncredible on May 28, 2010, 11:29:26 AM
We can lane split ;D [moto]
Betty, us Texans are a proud bunch. We may not be perfect but nobody is. I can sure pregnant dog about the Northwest. Even if it isn't true I'm sure I can find something. Please don't ruin a good thread over politics.
Drunk rant off.
Back on track. Thanks Dave.
There has been some attempts to pass lane splitting here. I wish it would happen especially because I got my klr going. Either way I only live 10 miles from wurk so it can't be that bad.
Yeah like I'm ever serious.
FTR, the best states are the ones I'm in. Such is life.
Sunshine follows me, bluebirds chill on my shoulder, and it only rains when I think about watering my garden.
Texas would rock if I were to go so far as to pee on it, thereby making it sacred to all life.
Quote from: MrIncredible on May 28, 2010, 12:46:42 PM
Yeah like I'm ever serious.
FTR, the best states are the ones I'm in. Such is life.
Sunshine follows me, bluebirds chill on my shoulder, and it only rains when I think about watering my garden.
Texas would rock if I were to go so far as to pee on it, thereby making it sacred to all life.
Oh that's right, your not just dave, your thee Dave. Damn I think an angel just slapped me as I said that. Oh and bluebirds suck. Bwaaaa ha ha ha. If you peed on my state it would splash back into yer eye. Yes its like thet. We'll continue this when I get off the plane and sober up.
lane splitting is not addressed specifically but falls under wreckless driving in TX........so, depending on the PoPo you might get away with it. Not self incriminating here am I?
"sober up"??? Blasphemy! Never speak those words again or I'll have Chuck Norris come over from his thread and hurt you. [laugh] Pissing on a flat rock here in TX is not a good idea. It'll get all over your shoes. ;D
Quote from: MrIncredible on May 28, 2010, 12:46:42 PM
Yeah like I'm ever serious.
FTR, the best states are the ones I'm in. Such is life.
Sunshine follows me, bluebirds chill on my shoulder, and it only rains when I think about watering my garden.
Texas would rock if I were to go so far as to pee on it, thereby making it sacred to all life.
You used to be closer...
and I liked you more. :-*
I overstepped the boundary again. Sorry.
now lets get back to the new track [thumbsup]
I'm really looking forward to finding out more about this. There is also a rumor that a new track is coming to San Antonio, it will be slightly longer and faster than Harris Hill. When I find out more ill post up.
Quote from: IZ on May 27, 2010, 10:31:37 PM
What lake are you referring to?!
OK..it was Lake Austin.
Lake Travis is the one that is evaporating (my old backyard).
1/13 piers open last summer because the lake was 20'+ low!! :-\
I'm not sure about Travis, but most of the lakes in the state have come back up to level...come back with a vengeance
Quote from: Le Pirate on May 30, 2010, 08:03:04 AM
I'm not sure about Travis, but most of the lakes in the state have come back up to level...come back with a vengeance
That's good news. I know you guys had a rough winter with a lot of snow/rain.
and snow. :-\
Quote from: Porsche Monkey on May 30, 2010, 04:31:34 AM
I'm really looking forward to finding out more about this. There is also a rumor that a new track is coming to San Antonio, it will be slightly longer and faster than Harris Hill. When I find out more ill post up.
If they build a track here I'm definitely getting a track bike ;D
Latest news on the track
(http://jalopnik.com/5553427/texas-taxpayers-fork-over-25-million-to-f1)
Quote from: Paper5tr3et7 on June 02, 2010, 10:27:26 AM
Latest news on the track
(http://jalopnik.com/5553427/texas-taxpayers-fork-over-25-million-to-f1)
fixed:
http://jalopnik.com/5553427/texas-taxpayers-fork-over-25-million-to-f1 (http://jalopnik.com/5553427/texas-taxpayers-fork-over-25-million-to-f1)
Latest news plus track layout
http://www.formula1unitedstates.com/index.html (http://www.formula1unitedstates.com/index.html)
http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/F1%20USGP%20BasicTrack%20LayoutwElevation.pdf (http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/F1%20USGP%20BasicTrack%20LayoutwElevation.pdf)
http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/Draft%20Track%20Layout%20F1%20USGP.pdf (http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/Draft%20Track%20Layout%20F1%20USGP.pdf)
Hmm..I was excited for this. Now I'm thinking..Austin is going to turn into Dallas.
Quote from: IZ on September 01, 2010, 02:48:17 PM
Hmm..I was excited for this. Now I'm thinking..Austin is going to turn into Dallas.
Too many Patchouli and Birkenstock wearing misanthropes for that to happen. :D
Quote from: kopfjäger on September 01, 2010, 02:59:06 PM
Too many Patchouli and Birkenstock wearing misanthropes for that to happen. :D
that's true. although I think the traffic in Austin is worse, especially I35 [bang]
I used to drive long haul, and would chuckle every time I'd run thru Amarillo and see the "olden corral" sign off the 40. Thinking nice sign to put at a retirement home.
Quote from: Lor on September 01, 2010, 07:59:17 PM
I used to drive long haul, and would chuckle every time I'd run thru Amarillo and see the "olden corral" sign off the 40. Thinking nice sign to put at a retirement home.
Ugh..that's the worse stretch going from Flagstaff through ABQ and then Amarillo to get to OK. :P
Quote from: MrIncredible on May 28, 2010, 12:46:42 PM
FTR, the best states are the ones I'm in. Such is life.
Sunshine follows me, bluebirds chill on my shoulder, and it only rains when I think about watering my garden.
This makes me want to put up my quote again about the Daves.
On another note...
Me and the wife are driving down to Houston next week to visit her sister. I need to try to convince her that Houston sux and she should move to Austin, and how if she moved to Austin we would come visit her more often.
http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/F1%20USGP%20BasicTrack%20LayoutwElevation.pdf (http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/F1%20USGP%20BasicTrack%20LayoutwElevation.pdf)
Track layout looks good, I especially like the elevation changes
Quote from: SA_S2R on September 02, 2010, 03:11:03 AM
http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/F1%20USGP%20BasicTrack%20LayoutwElevation.pdf (http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/F1%20USGP%20BasicTrack%20LayoutwElevation.pdf)
Track layout looks good, I especially like the elevation changes
I assume that the elevation is going to be in the natural landscape where it's being built? I didn't see the location but I heard that it was going to be out by the airport. Is that true? It's pretty flat out that way IIRC
Quote from: IZ on September 02, 2010, 05:50:24 AM
I assume that the elevation is going to be in the natural landscape where it's being built? I didn't see the location but I heard that it was going to be out by the airport. Is that true? It's pretty flat out that way IIRC
They mentioned 130 and FM 812 which is near the airport.