# Watkins Glen Track Updates **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [January 19, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384 "2010-01-19T09:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/21 "2010-01-21T09:45:58Z")
By ANYTHING you mean only cars I’m assuming? ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/22 "2010-01-21T10:00:40Z")
> [@Motocrossx23](#): > > By ANYTHING you mean only cars I’m assuming? No, I mean anything. There were bikes out there last year. And with enough interest we can get a group of bikes out for the IRL race this year too. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/23 "2010-01-26T07:02:04Z")
Watkins Glen is in for some renovations. The historic road course in upstate New York was once the home of the US Grand Prix, and today hosts races in the Indy Racing League, NASCAR, the Rolex Grand-Am series and the SCCA Speed World Challenge, not to mention several vintage racing series. It’s a veritable landmark in American automobile racing, and (nostalgia not being what it used to be) only stands to get better with the new improvements underway. Intended to improve both safety and competition, the revisions will include paved run-off areas replacing some of the gravel traps and grass fields, new crash barriers and guard rails, upgraded catch fences and the installation of FIA-regulation curbs at certain corners. The project, which is set to be completed before the track opens for the season in April, will be the largest undertaken at the track since the catch fences were installed before the IndyCar Series came in 2005. The plans were announced by the International Speedway Corporation, the company owned by the France family that controls NASCAR and which, in turn, owns and operates Watkins Glen along with such noteworthy oval speedways as Daytona, Talladega, Darlington and Homestead, to name just a few. However The Glen, as it’s known, remains the only road course under the umbrella, and one of only two on the NASCAR Sprint Cup calendar, which calls its race there, if you can believe it, “Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen”. > **[Heluva Good! Big renovations planned for Watkins Glen](https://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/26/heluva-good-big-renovations-planned-for-watkins-glen/)** > > Watkins Glen is in for some renovations. The historic road course in upstate New York was once the home of the US Grand Prix, and today hosts races in the Indy Racing League, NASCAR, the Rolex Grand-Am series and the SCCA Speed World Challenge, not... ---
**Author:** ![Inn-Tune](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/inn-tune/32/7588_2.png) [@Inn-Tune](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Inn-Tune)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/24 "2010-01-26T07:17:57Z")
Maybe your post can be moved to the thread from a couple days ago about this: [http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81559](http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81559) ---
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/25 "2010-01-26T07:24:26Z")
Yeah that is what happens when you search for something by the wrong name “Glenn” ---
**Author:** ![heylick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/heylick/32/5290_2.png) [@heylick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/heylick)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/26 "2010-02-28T00:36:29Z")
nascar ftw ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/27 "2010-02-28T07:48:18Z")
Such a stimulating and useful reply, thank you for that. ---
**Author:** ![heylick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/heylick/32/5290_2.png) [@heylick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/heylick)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/28 "2010-02-28T09:29:33Z")
> [@MPD47](#): > > Such a stimulating and useful reply, thank you for that. yeah i was half in the bag last night i wasnt really thinking. but i do think the changes theyre making are beneficial. when they paved the other gravel traps it was a great improvement for the safety of all drivers. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384/29 "2010-03-01T09:18:21Z")
I’ve used the additional passing zone at turn one, it works great. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watkins-glen-track-updates/78384.md?page=1)