Explore the Serpentine Track Section

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Chicago's Abandoned Racetrack Nobody Knows About - Inside Forgotten Meadowdale Raceway

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What happens here

Drive or walk along the serpentine section of the track, paying attention to the significant elevation changes and banked turns. Historical footage demonstrates how cars would navigate these turns at high speeds. Be aware that cameras might flatten the perceived elevation, so the real-life experience could be more dramatic.

Goal: Navigate and experience the significant elevation changes of the serpentine section.

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Historical Race Footage — Visualizing racing in the serpentine section

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right there's a lot of elevation change in this RAC trck as much or more as Road America or Road Atlanta or any of them out there where are the cars in the woods we F window about that or those it sounds like they're easy to see from the main path especially with all the leaves gone so this is actually a really really good time to do this you can see way more so the main racing surface was really wide on the front stretch and then it would neck down in here cuz this kind of you see where it was graded up for that right they that must be original when they paved over what goes down there is that part of the track that was like a cut through we're going to go we're going to see that when we go around the other way too it was a they had a cut off for like um you know they did Seca stuff they wouldn't do the whole track they cut off certain areas shorter configuration yes exactly okay they had a couple different ways to get through there I guess so this was a bridge for the racing surface right yeah it was way cool it had a it was pretty wide and stuff this did not have a bridge when it was a racetrack it didn't this was paved and um it oh so it went down well it didn't go down this much no I thought it was like a kind of like a

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