Watkins Glen International 2024 Updates!

Watkins Glen International is up and running at full speed this year, and bringing a handful of updates to the track! From additional safer barriers, rumble strips, and most notably, new curbs as you enter the bus stop! Stay tuned for more content at the track as well as at our shop up in Rochester and be sure to stop in and say hi at our race shop, located at the south end of the paddock!
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[@savannahhirano]

Always loved your shop in pit lane, great video and thanks for the track updates.

[@dpalermoful]

Thanks for putting together this video - great to have information from other than the rumor mill on what the WGI changes.

[@dynosaurmotorsports6241]

Stock ride through the bus stop FTW! Leave the splitter a little up and go right by the blue bushes! Clearly, a few people have done this.If you just leave the concrete insert completely out it will be just like NHMS turn 10!

[@Proto-Tempo]

WGI has stated they will not be interchanging these curbs unless a pro series requires it. "same curbs they have at COTA" and also the same curbs that people have broken their back on. For open wheel & prototype style cars these are an antiquated safety risk. A quick search of how many serious accidents these larger turtle style curbs have caused in recent years makes anyone wonder why they would update a track with these in 2024.

[@DKPalmer]

Thanks for providing information that is authoritative and accurate.
Having said that, all of the angst, mostly from track day participants, is strange. "Unless you're being paid to drive a car that you don't own, stay off the damn curbs"! It's not really that hard ladies and gentlemen...

[@cademckee7276]

How dare people be mad that an iconic corner, and a very large part of that iconic corner got changed amirite?

[@savannahhirano]

I’m okay with the barrier at bus stop moving… it provides a bit more safety when cars get squeeze there… I’ll have to see at a track day how I feel about the new kerbs there but it looks fine from the video.

[@mrj3217]

Ok, major RED Flag, No SAFER BARRER @ BUS STOP why is that just a normal guard rail?
Let's be proactive guys the money is 1000% worth being safe than sorry.
Let go guys.

[@cademckee7276]

A safer barrier doesn’t make sense at all there. It’s the inside of a corner

[@Eddie07S]

4:20 The only thing that the changes to the entrance to the bus stop has done has straightened it out. Remember that this is a NASCAR track and any changes are only to benefit the NASCAR drivers; sports car racing, including IMSA, be damned. The NASCAR guys will just ignore the turtles and drive right up to the Armco as the turtles mean nothing to those cars. As for sports car racing, this is going to produce a lot of broken cars. Sorry, not helpful.