Originally posted by blues_hawk Very nice!
I wish they had something besides ovals around here, even if "nascar" did start here and the Woods brothers invented the fast pit-stop a few miles up the road, it's gotten too politicized and commercialized to no end which turns me off to the whole thing. Make them carry moonshine and I'll come back, and maybe I'll even get the old Malibu out and load it up for a run(kidding).
After traveling all over as a kid, I ended up here and grew up driving these windy old mountain roads so the whole left turn thing makes me yawn a bit. VIR is the closest road course but too far away for me.
Thanks for the comments.
There are lots of road courses in the Southeast. The larger oval tracks have road courses integrated into the oval, on the infield, and some extend outside of the oval.
Charlotte and Daytona both have road courses.
There is also Road Atlanta, Northeast of Atlanta. A world class road course.
Alabama has Talladega, which also has a road course (although I doubt it sees much use), and there is Barber Motorsports Park just outside of Birmingham.
There are more, I'm just drawing a blank right now.