I was able to get some shots of the lower Rio parking lot this morning before security chased me out.  Seems they are doing a pretty good job of keeping people out of the area, which has been taken out of service as a parking lot for the last couple of months.  For most of the last month one of those large temporary building/tent structures has been over much of that part of the lot.  That led to a few large patches on what is otherwise a fairly well used piece of pavement.  It doesn’t look like it’s been resurfaced since the original Rio SNATS in 2002.  The kids from places where the tracks are smooth and sheep are nervous might be in for a rude awakening as some of it looks a tad rough.  Those of us on the left coast that are used to the street circuit/ parking lot it won’t be too much of a surprise.    It looks like the kart track out at the speedway that the club uses was a good environment being it’s twisty, short and fairly bumpy.  But as they say, we are all racing on the same track.