Headed down to Ozark International Raceway (OIR) this weekend. MVP is hosting a two day event. Typically I don't like running big events like this that aren't timed....but I missed the NASA Central event down there a couple weekends ago due to family obligations.

Looks like a big, fun, fast and precise all wrapped into 19 corners, 1200' elevation changes and 4 miles of newly paved asphalt. I've been running it on my simulator for the last week or two just to get comfortable with the corners, as there are so many blind up and downhill corners involved. Fingers crossed it helps out!

Something I thought was odd, we're running the full course, with the bus stop bypass. I haven't seen video of anyone else running that configuration yet.

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I mentioned running it in the simulator... I found a gentleman out of the UK that does custom skins for the cars. He was able to replicate my car pretty damn good. Obviously wheels and tires aren't close...but hey, it took him a few hours to what it would take me weeks to do.

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It seems that the elevation changes on the track are so quick that there have been a lot of cars bottoming out/lifting tires. I don't think I'll bottom out, but the lifting tires part is unnerving; especially at 130mph+ on a track I'm not super familiar with.

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Going to load up Thursday and head down Friday. Luckily my parents have a house about 20 minutes from the track so it'll make the commute pretty easy!

For anyone not familiar with the track, or how to work YouTube/Google, here's a friend of mine's Z06 running it a couple of weeks ago. He's ran the fastest posted time I've seen, with exception of the open wheel cars.