Nascar races on all sorts of tracks, from short to long, oval to road course, concrete to asphalt. Here’s a weekly look at all the tracks of Nascar’s National Touring Series.
CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS
3.426 mile asphalt road course
Opened 2012
Lights? No
Series: Cup, Xfinity, Trucks
Nicknames: COTA, America’s Tilkedrome
THREE FUN FACTS:
1. What’s a “Tilkedrome”? Essentially, its Formula 1’s version of a “cookie-cutter” track, a road course with far too much in common with other road courses designed by Herman Tilke. See? American racing fans aren’t the only ones allowed to be bitter.
2. A 5,000 seat stadium is located inside the track, built for a minor league soccer team that relocated after the 2001 season. Abandoning stadiums—what is this, a Summer Olympics?
3. Circuit of the Americas has hosted the United States Grand Prix F1 race since 2012. This year a THIRD race in the US is added to the F1 calendar, because if something works once, might as well saturate the HELL out of it.
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