Inde Motorsports Ranch
Inde Motorsports Ranch
Track length: 2.75 Miles
Track width: 40 feet
Longest straight: 2200 feet
Elevation: 4400 feet ASL
Located on a remote plot of land near Willcox, Arizona, Inde Motorsports Ranch is a recently constructed “members” road course best described as a country club for motorheads. Featuring tight, point-’n’-shoot corners, off-camber turns, quick-flick chicanes, a fast sweeper, a few blind rises and its fair share of bumps, IMR offers 21 turns of non-stop action. It also provided a good test venue for putting our varied lineup of 600cc supersports, agile “big” middleweights and TC-equipped liter-class missiles to task. The overload of information acquired with our VBox data logger has been distilled down to a few key areas of the course to help illustrate where each bike was making or losing time (with Associate Editor Mark Cernicky at the controls).
Each bike’s quickest lap time has been dissected into a pair of split times, the first split spanning the faster section of the course from start/finish to the beginning of the braking zone for Turn 4. Split 2 is the remainder of the lap, composed of a series of technically challenging firstand second-gear corners. Terminal speed was clocked just before slowing for sweeping Turn 3, the track’s fastest bend and the first of three corner-speed intervals sampled in which the bike’s point-to-point mph average was recorded. Intervals 1 and 2 both include acceleration off the corner’s apex where the benefit of traction-control should be visible, while Interval 3 spans the distance between the pair of apexes in a flip-flop chicane that demonstrates each bike’s handling agility. —Don Canet
