It’s easy to sum up any race track with a circuit outline and a few vital statistics, but that’s about as interesting as experiencing a full race season through a tidy list of the winners’ names and the number of points they earned. To grasp the magic fully, you’ve got to be there, to smell the air in pit lane before the warmup lap starts, to hear the reverberation of an engine at full throttle as it echoes off the walls of the spectator bridge.
An elevation map can show a dip, but it can’t make your guts levitate into your chest cavity as the suspension extends and the tires reach desperately for the tarmac. We went to some of the big players in our scene and asked them to share their favorite North American circuits with us, big or small. The folks on our list come from a wide variety of backgrounds and racing experiences, but they all have one thing in common: They’ve devoted their lives to the world of motorsports, and they’ve had the opportunity to push the limit at circuits around the world.
We ran a list of high-profile tracks in our February 2013 issue, so this time around we asked our experts to dig a bit deeper for sentimental favorites.
Randy Pobst: Atlanta Motorsports Park
FIRST TASTE
“When I heard the rumors of a new track going in around Atlanta, it was exciting–more is always better. The foothills of the Appalachians promised interesting terrain to drape a track over. My first visit to AMP, I went up on a motorcycle and I got a ride in a highly modified Volvo S60 of all things, owned by Zeke Massie. He’s one of the first guys to get a garage at the track–he and his wife,…
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