{"id":489743,"date":"2007-11-01T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=60407"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:57:50","slug":"turn-9-mazda-raceway-laguna-seca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/turn-9-mazda-raceway-laguna-seca\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn 9, Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although not as famous as its corner mates\u2014the Corkscrew and the Andretti Hairpin\u2014Turn 9 at Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca is one of the most exciting corners in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its combination of on-camber, off-camber, decreasing radius, elevation change and limited visibility make it one of the most technical corners I have ever driven. It has taken me nearly 10 years to truly understand this corner in all of its complexity and, even now, I rarely get the \u201cwarm fuzzy\u201d feeling a driver feels when he exits a corner, knowing it could not be done any better. With all of that said, and for all of those reasons, it is my favorite corner in North America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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It has taken me nearly 10 years to truly understand this corner in all of its complexity and, even now, I rarely get the \u201cwarm fuzzy\u201d feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":607277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11272,18331,18207],"tags":[17152,17140,18332,17206,6920,17143,17205],"class_list":["post-489743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-members-only","category-motorsport-profiles","category-special-feature","tag-car-culture","tag-members-only","tag-profiles-motorsport-all","tag-profiles-racetrack","tag-laguna-seca","tag-special-feature","tag-vrr-column-hot-laps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turn 9, Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca<\/title>\n<meta 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