After the Halloween flooding it was reported that the lower areas of the COTA property had flooded, as did many low areas immediately surrounding the track. Apparently the tunnels flooded also. Amazing that they have no drainage.How are things looking around the track area with all the rain in the past few days?
During the SVRA event last weekend (before the much bigger Halloween storm) there was mud & standing water everywhere hours after the rain ended & some of the footpaths were heavily eroded from rains over the past few weeks. The turn 1 GA area would have been a disaster with an F1 turnout there & at least one grass high-traffic area was reduced to a muddy mess even with by far the smallest race day crowd they've ever seen.
Here, you be the judge.These were taken during the SVRA event with paid admission. Imagine the scenes with an F1 crowd:
The high-traffic "walkway" from the paddock to the esses & the stdium complex. This was taken in the morning. It was much worse later:
Just behind a main straight hospitality area. During the first few sessions on Sunday, walking through here was our only path from the Main GS to the T1 GS:
The T1 GA area and the bottleneck traffic area between it and the T1 concessions/restrooms:
Behind the T1GS:
Standing water in the walkway along the esses:
On a somewhat related note, here's the nearest open "restroom facility' we could find to T1 when my son needed to go. It was behind the Main GS. We had to walk all the way down from the T1GS to find this:
In summary....pray for dry weather for the race. COTA is certainly not prepared for the alternative.
