NMS Visits Discovery Parts at Atlanta Motorsports Park

NMS at Atlanta Motorsports Park

Atlanta Motorsports Park is more than a track, it offers club memberships. Think private golf club, but use the word "racecars" instead of "golf." Here's a link to their website, and while it's out of my price range, just one winning lottery ticket could change that little situation!

ATLANTA MOTORSPORTS PARK

2027 Corvettes at AMP

MORE 2027 Corvettes at AMP. 

On our recent visit to see the Exocet in northwest Georgia, we managed to stop by Atlanta Motorsports Park on the way home and visit Discovery Parts. To our surprise, the track was hosting an event with Chevrolet unveiling the new 2027 Corvettes! There were plenty of shiny brand new Corvettes all over the place. Somehow Brian just happened to be wearing a Corvette shirt that day, so he fit right in!

Yes, they have race seats at Discovery Parts!

Brian checks out one of the seats. They come in different sizes.

The Chillout system is basically an air conditioner that pumps very cool biodegradable coolant mix through tubes built into a shirt the driver is wearing. This is newer technology than other systems that pump plain old Bb cold ice water. This system is more expensive, but is battery powered, so you don't even have to wire it into your car's electric system.

Chillout also makes this cheaper system that uses good old fashioned ice cubes and ice water. The salesman told us that you could just strap this into your passenger seat, with no requirement to bolt it down to the floor of your car, although of course that would be safer. I think Chillout just released this item, because two days later I got an email announcing it. 

We went into Discovery Parts and the friendly staff helped us try out various driver seats for track use. Before you buy a new seat for your car you definitely want to sit in some different models and see how they feel. While your average car seat gets the job done, in a performance situation you really want to be wearing the seat, because it not only holds you more firmly to assist in having more control over driving, but it's also part of your safety system. The seat works with your helmet, HANS, and harness to hold you in place and reduce any injury if you have an incident in the car. 

Indy 500 Pace Car Vette? CHECK!

Full blown Corvette ZR1X racecar that competed on Pike's Peak? CHECK! Did I say "competed?" I meant to say it just set a new record for production cars!

AMP track from the pits, Racetrack Condos in the background. Sorry, but they are all sold out. However...

You can purchase a now under construction Motor Club Circuit Villa trackside, starting at only $649,999.00

Since we had just visited the Exocet shop and were thinking about Miata sized cars, there were a few seats that were small enough to fit in a Miata, and that's what we tried out. After looking at several brands, I'd summarize it to say that the price range went from say $1,000 or so up to the super light weight carbon fiber seat that was around $2,400.