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Summit Point Raceway in Summit Point, West Virginia is apparently being lined with concrete walls, decreasing run-off area in the same manner as similar wall projects did at Road Atlanta and Laguna Seca.

According to a post on www.wera.com, the WERA BBS, WERA Race Director George Mood heard about the walls being installed and went to the track to see for himself.

“Summit point is begining to look like Road Atlanta as BSR (Bill Scott Racing, the track owner/operator) has recently installed concrete walls in certain areas,” reported Mood. “The walls are in 8-foot sections, about 12 inches thick. They are lined with one ‘layer’ of stacked tires…”

Mood then posted details of the wall sections, along with an observation that the track is apparently making and installing more sections of wall. The areas where new concrete walls are already installed include, in order of least worrisome to most worrisome: Outside turn 1, beyond the gravel trap; on rider’s left in turns 7-8; on rider’s right in turn 3; and on rider’s left between turns 4 and 5, with about 400 feet of wall in place, reducing run-off area by about two feet.

Although F-USA and CCS have about 560 linear feet of Air Fence available for use at Summit Point during the uncoming (May 23-26) F-USA National and regularly scheduled CCS regional events, WERA does not currently have any Air Fence.