Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course

They're building an exterior road course at charlotte motor speedway

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZahTqsgsCUUnl75uSBEno7mlWZx0sHXW/view?usp=sharing

Is that what they are doing?!

Been watching them move a LOT of dirt around and couldn't figure out why 

Looks very interesting but judging by the site and plans this will likely be a club,track day, and rental etc track rather then holding any major race events. But who knows maybe the end plans will. Charlotte has never built anything there that hasn't hosted major events.

Well that's exciting. I bet TNiA will move over to there so that they don't have to open the main facility. Charlotte is the closest track to me so I'm excited to see it finished

AMiataCalledSteve said:

Well that's exciting. I bet TNiA will move over to there so that they don't have to open the main facility. Charlotte is the closest track to me so I'm excited to see it finished

Where are you located? It's close to me, too. Im about halfway between it and VIR

This looks interesting, I HOPE they put SOME elevation in it. Current ROVAL has some.

That's a good move. The infield road coarse is a swimming pool during any type of heavy rain. 

I despise the roval. Would totally check out an outside the oval track.

Hopefully it will be considerably safer!

wvumtnbkr said:

I despise the roval. Would totally check out an outside the oval track.

 

Hopefully it will be considerably safer!

Why?

I do agree with the [very] limited run off there. LOTS of walls.

hybridmomentspass said:

wvumtnbkr said:

I despise the roval. Would totally check out an outside the oval track.

 

Hopefully it will be considerably safer!

Why?

I do agree with the [very] limited run off there. LOTS of walls.

Because of all the walls about 4 inches off the racing surface.  Makes road atlanta and Watkins Glen look like the tracks of the future.

In reply to hybridmomentspass :

I'm near Asheville. The next closest tracks to me are in the Atlanta area, though VIR isn't too much farther than AMP. Besides Charlotte, most  southeastern tracks are 3.5-5 hours away.

So the thread title lead my poor Friday brain cell to think of an external ROVAL, still using parts of the oval and I couldn't process how that would work for access, stands etc.  The link made me Homer D'oh myself.

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:

So the thread title lead my poor Friday brain cell to think of an external ROVAL, still using parts of the oval and I couldn't process how that would work for access, stands etc.  The link made me Homer D'oh myself.

That'd how the road course at New Hampshire International Speedway is laid out.  Not that it's a great track but it can be done.

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

To be fair, that's exactly what New Hampshire speedway does.

https://youtu.be/gih_C3GVOqQ

I love seeing new tracks built!

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

Michigan International Speedway originally had a road course that went in and out of the oval.  You can still see it on Google maps as part of the camping and parking roads.

In reply to PMRacing :

Well bugger me, so it did!

As did Thompson Speedway in Connecticut....

tester (Forum Supporter) said:

That's a good move. The infield road coarse is a swimming pool during any type of heavy rain. 

Yes, I recall that race.  We did fairly well, too.

Now that I think about it, my home track also goes in and out of the oval.

Purple Frog (Forum Supporter) said:

As did Thompson Speedway in Connecticut....

And it still does after getting rebuilt. Plus Texas world speedway did being a Michigan clone. And twin ring motegi although it doesn't actually use any part of the oval but goes inside. The old long road course at phenoix did go outside too.

A very grainy pic I took of Texas World Speedway with my phone from 30,000 feet as I was coming into Houston.  I really liked the track, even if it wasn't a great track to overtake on.  T1 and T7 were truly "hopefully I make it this lap too" turns if you were doing them right.