“I think the pit lane setup is going to be really neat,” Zemke said. “It's going to be a unique opportunity for the race fans to actually get down there and see what's going on. Especially while we're out on the track, they're going to be able to be peeking into the garages at what the World Superbike guys are doing as well as being able to see what we're doing out on the pit lane. It's going to be an incredible opportunity to get access that you can't get at any other racetrack in the country, so I think that's going to be really exciting for the fans, and it should be really good.”
As for the prospect of going from the 3.08-mile Outer Course to the 4.5-mile Full Course, Zemke, who scored the most recent Honda Superbike win here in 2006, said that a 50-percent increase in lap length would add more excitement to the racing.
“You know, I think the racing's going to be quite good,” he said. “It looks like the infield section of the track that we hadn't previously run will give us a lot of good passing opportunities and overtaking areas. As hard as it is to believe, I think we're going to see better racing than we had here previously.
“I really, really enjoy this racetrack, and I think it's going to be even more fun than it used to be with these new corners,” he added. “It's going to be great because it's going to be new for everybody again, and it's adding twice as many corners to the racetrack as we used to have. So it's going to be a lot of fun, and it'll be good because a lot of the guys won't have any previous information coming into this race like we have the past two years”, he concluded.
