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We'll be using the whole track, including the long back straightaway (no bus stop). It's the same configuration we have always run. We don't use the bus stop turn because that would eliminate a passing zone for the time trialers, and it would waste too much time moving cones/cornerworkers just for race group. John Cote prefers to run the course clockwise, because he feels it is a little safer than counter-clockwise (because of the cement wall that seperates the pits from the track). The turn leading onto the front straight clockwise is sharper than the turn leading onto the front straight counter-clockwise, so, in theory, you'd be going slower, and have a "softer" impact.