Had the opportunity last Saturday to cruise out your way and partake in the unique challenges of "the Dragon's Tail". Couldn't get my car out of second gear, so I thought ... "this is pretty tight." Having a fondness for juggling numbers I tried to put "318 corners in 11 miles" into an easily understood format - the simple average. Granted I took broad liberties in standardizing corner geometry, but I think the results are interesting.

My idealized corner geometry is very simple:

1 - turn Entrance is straight of x distance

2 - turn Radius is constant - also of x distance

3 - turn Exit is straight - again of x distance

Using these "optimized" arbitrary proportions,

an "Average Dragon's Tail Corner" would be defined as follows:

1 - turn Entrance - 61 feet

2 - turn Radius - a 120 degree arc of constant 29 foot radius,

total radius length - 61 feet

3 - turn Exit - 61 feet

4 - the turn Entrance and turn Exit legs would be at a 60 degree

angle to each other

5 - Average Apex-to-Apex distance - 183 feet

6 - Straight line distance from Start to Finish of the 11 convoluted

miles - 6.7 miles

So, if the Dragons' Tail were "standardized", you would have

318 corners 183 feet apart, each with an Entrance/Exit angle of 60 degrees

and a corner radius of 29 feet.

THAT IS TIGHT.