{"id":489983,"date":"2008-05-01T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=54471"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:57:50","slug":"lime-rocks-uphill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lime-rocks-uphill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lime Rock Park Profile &#8211; The Uphill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On paper, Lime Rock Park seems to be an easy track to learn. There are only seven corners and the track layout is fairly straightforward. However, get behind the wheel on this thrilling 1.53-mile road course and you quickly see that this track rewards only the brave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the most challenging and intimidating corners is the \u201cUphill,\u201d the fifth turn on a track map, the corner at the end of \u201cNo Name Straight.\u201d What makes it so difficult: high speed, elevation change, no view as you begin to crest the top of the hill, and virtually no runoff. 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One of the most challenging and intimidating corners is the \u201cUphill,\u201d the fifth turn on a track map, the corner at the end of \u201cNo Name Straight.\u201d What makes it so difficult: high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":586425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11272,18331,18207],"tags":[17152,17140,18332,17206,11399,17143,17205],"class_list":["post-489983","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-lime-rock","tag-special-feature","tag-vrr-column-hot-laps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lime Rock Park Profile - The Uphill<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Skip Barber instructor Stephan Bastrzycki shows us that quick lap times can be an uphill battle.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lime-rocks-uphill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lime Rock Park Profile - The Uphill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Skip Barber instructor Stephan Bastrzycki shows us that quick lap times can be an uphill battle.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lime-rocks-uphill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steve.natale1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-05-01T10:30:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-02T19:57:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/HL200805.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"824\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/lime-rocks-uphill\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/lime-rocks-uphill\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Steve Natale\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/237befa83e8e5937247db55880b8cc49\"},\"headline\":\"Lime Rock Park Profile &#8211; 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