COTA Austin - construction and infrastructure

[Nando]

Renault will hit the track first with Dempsey, Dámbrosio and Andretti.

http://totalf1.com/full_story/view/4326 ... in_Austin/

Now on Sunday which is the official opening of the track.

[hairy_scotsman]

but only a camera phone.

a VGA camera?

No idea.

[Pennster]

I got the email. Haven't had a chance to view it all. I wonder who it's from, too, but I doubt it's Hellmund. He got his settlement. At this point I'm just happy he started this thing and McCombs & Epstein are going to finish it.

This is all very odd. (http://www.F1cotanews.com) is now down. I decided to look who owned it. The URL is registered through GoDaddy and is private.

But, I did some more digging (through (http://www.domaintools.com)). The URL points to a server with this address: 50.97.128.226. That server is located in Dallas and its host is: rr01.gorocketred.com.

When I look up http://www.gorocketred.com, it appears to be a marketing and advertising agency., Rocket Red. None of its clients looked like anything connected.

So i did another search. Because the video was a pro-Hellmund video, i searched for: "rocket red" hellmund. I found this website (http://184.106.3.160/mediaImages.html), and it had Hellmund's company's (Full Throttle Productions LP) name listed across from Rocket Red.

What in the world? I thought Tavo was gone.

[Pup]

Well, it's an odd thing.

Perhaps Tavo is just doing his part in keeping Austin weird.

[hairy_scotsman]

Rocket Red?

I remember wayyyy back when COTA first launched its website, a day or two later they put up a page with all their partners. Rocket Red was there at the time. Don't know if they still are or, if not, how long they've been gone.

[hairy_scotsman]

This may be good news for some of you...as of a couple of days ago, construction is underway on the T11E GS:

[Pup]

It's hard to see with it all sloping downhill like that.

[Pup]

Tennis anyone?

[hairy_scotsman]

It's hard to see with it all sloping downhill like that.

Wait. Seriously?

You know that's not the area that slopes downhill from the track. It's somewhat visible in the foreground, next to 10. It's not at 11.

[FW17]

Tennis anyone?

?

[Pup]

You know that's not the area that slopes downhill from the track. It's somewhat visible in the foreground, next to 10. It's not at 11.

Hmm. Apparently, what I know is where the GA area is.

[Pup]

Tennis anyone?

?

In lieu of support races, the track is going to hold a tennis tournament among the team principals.

[FW17]

Tennis anyone?

?

In lieu of support races, the track is going to hold a tennis tournament among the team principals.

Who did that render? obviously a lot of time has been spent on it

[hairy_scotsman]

You know that's not the area that slopes downhill from the track. It's somewhat visible in the foreground, next to 10. It's not at 11.

Hmm. Apparently, what I know is where the GA area is.

The GA area there stretches from near the T10 runoff corner to near the T11 GS. About half of it (the portion closest to T10) is downhill from the track. People there will have to look uphill and over the armco to see anything. The portion near T11 is great, looking downhill to the track.

I get that hardly anyone will use the area near 10 once they learn that they can't see anything there. That doesn't change the fact that COTA is still calling it a GA viewing area.

[hairy_scotsman]

Who did that render? obviously a lot of time has been spent on it

Ouch...One of those rows will be very uncomfortable sitting on the permanent FIA fence.