Update: Lime Rock Renovations

Friday, June 27, 2008

This is the new entrance and ticket booth complex.

LAKEVILLE, Conn. - The Phase 1 renovations, upgrades, changes and repaving of Lime Rock Park are nearly complete. The entire track has been paved, the all-new entrance is almost done, and the optional Uphill and West Bend configurations are in place. As of Friday, June 27, the pouring of the apex and track-out curbing was underway. Below are 11 more photos, taken Wednesday, June 25...

The optional West Bend complex, taken from the new bridge.

No more "swamp" in this part of B Paddock, thanks to the dirt that was removed from the Uphill and dumped-and-graded here.

The Downhill.

Even the last bit of A Paddock toward Big Bend was paved.

The construction crew in Big Bend, laying the base for the apex curbing.

The Lefthander, taken from the top of the spectator hill.

The optional Uphill, taken from near turn-in.

A slightly different view of the optional Uphill.

The optional Uphill, in a shot taken from the top of the complex.

This shot was taken from the existing driver's-left flagger station.

Where old and new Uphill merge...

Words & pix, Rick Roso