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Road racing can be a term involving road running, road bicycle racing, or automobile races. As contemplated in this article, the term will be treated as it relates to motorsport, specifically, automobile racing and Motorcycle sport.
Types of road courses
is an example of a road course
Road racing can be of two types: in the first, car or motorcycle races are run on specially built, closed circuit courses; in the second, public
roads are temporarily closed off for the purpose of conducting a race. Notable examples of this include the
Monaco Grand Prix which is conducted on the city streets of the small principality, the
Mille Miglia, the Targa Florio,and the
Isle of Man. The
Isle of Man TT, probably the most famous motorcycle race of its type, takes place over the Snaefell mountain course, as well as the Northwest 200 in Ireland. Today, some small portion of these automobile race tracks are called temporary street courses.
Of the former, closed circuit type, purpose-built
race tracks are used that, due to their irregular shapes and many turns and curves, resemble true road courses. Due to safety and insurance concerns, this style of racing has largely supplanted true road racing, particularly in Europe. Road racing is also occasionally conducted using the infield and Oval track portions of tracks making a "
roval", such as the
24 Hours of Daytona. Road racing has become a featured part of many racing video games.
Global road courses
Global road-racing series such as Formula One car racing and MotoGP motorcycle racing are almost always conducted on dedicated race tracks—with only a few exceptions. Several of these tracks are world-renowned, such as the circuits at Le Mans, Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, and Silverstone Circuit. Recent expansion of these international series has resulted in dedicated tracks being built in
Qatar in the
Middle East, Sepang in Malaysia, and Shanghai in
China.
North American road courses
There was a long tradition of road racing on real streets in United States. Now the most famous American road courses are all purpose-built, but some where the original tradition evolved include:
Riverside International Raceway at
Riverside, California (now closed); Watkins Glen International at Watkins Glen, New York;
Road America at
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin; and Infineon Raceway at Sonoma, California. After a few decades of such events three sons of Barron Collier—Barron, Miles, and Samuel—founded the
Automobile Racing Club of America in 1933. That organization became the
Sports Car Club of America in 1944. Throughout its history, American race car drivers such as
Briggs Cunningham,
Lake Underwood,
Carroll Shelby, and Mark Donohue were among the contestants at these road racing events.
Other less famous purpose-built road courses include:
Moroso Motorsports Park, Barber Motorsports Park,
Miller Motorsports Park, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Heartland Park Topeka, Lime Rock Park,
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Road Atlanta, Portland International Raceway, and Virginia International Raceway. Additionally, Grand Prix motor racing-style road course racing over public streets is making something of a comeback; the most famous race of this sort currently held is the one hosted annually in Long Beach, California. Other famous street circuits in
North America include events held in
St. Petersburg, Florida, Vancouver, Canada, and Toronto, Canada. Airport runways figure into several part-time road courses in North America: Burke Lakefront Airport in
Cleveland, Ohio hosts a Champ Car race every summer; the Streets of St. Petersburg course uses the runway of a
Albert Whitted Airport as its main straight, and Sebring International Raceway, home of the prestigious 12 Hours of Sebring in March, was formerly a military airfield in
Sebring, Florida.
See also
External links
- http://www.rrdc.org/ see - Road Racing Drivers Club - many photographs with biographies of all ever invited to join, living and deceased
- http://www.scca.org/ see - Sports Car Club of America - Large road racing organization in the United States, originally founded as the Automobile Racing Club of America in 1933
- http://www.wera.com/ see - WERA Motorcycle Racing - the largest amateur motorcycle road racing organization in the United States
- National Auto Sports Association see - National Auto Sport Association
- http://www.sportbikes.com International Sportbike Forum
- http://www.trackHQ.com - The Central Archives of Road Course Photos, Videos, and discussion forums for everything related to amateur track day on Road Courses.
- http://www.morosomotorsportspark.com Year-round, full facility motorsports park with a 2.2 mile road course, located in the Palm Beaches of Florida.
- Motorcycling Australia (MA)- Australian Governing Body
Road racing can be a term involving road running, road bicycle racing, or automobile races. As contemplated in this article, the term will be treated as it relates to motorsport, specifically, automobile racing and Motorcycle sport.
Types of road courses
is an example of a road course
Road racing can be of two types: in the first, car or motorcycle races are run on specially built, closed circuit courses; in the second, public roads are temporarily closed off for the purpose of conducting a race. Notable examples of this include the
Monaco Grand Prix which is conducted on the city streets of the small principality, the
Mille Miglia, the
Targa Florio,and the
Isle of Man. The
Isle of Man TT, probably the most famous motorcycle race of its type, takes place over the
Snaefell mountain course, as well as the Northwest 200 in Ireland. Today, some small portion of these automobile race tracks are called temporary street courses.
Of the former, closed circuit type, purpose-built race tracks are used that, due to their irregular shapes and many turns and curves, resemble true road courses. Due to safety and insurance concerns, this style of racing has largely supplanted true road racing, particularly in Europe. Road racing is also occasionally conducted using the infield and
Oval track portions of tracks making a "roval", such as the
24 Hours of Daytona. Road racing has become a featured part of many racing video games.
Global road courses
Global road-racing series such as
Formula One car racing and
MotoGP motorcycle racing are almost always conducted on dedicated race tracks—with only a few exceptions. Several of these tracks are world-renowned, such as the circuits at
Le Mans, Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, and Silverstone Circuit. Recent expansion of these international series has resulted in dedicated tracks being built in
Qatar in the Middle East,
Sepang in Malaysia, and Shanghai in China.
North American road courses
There was a long tradition of road racing on real streets in United States. Now the most famous American road courses are all purpose-built, but some where the original tradition evolved include: Riverside International Raceway at Riverside, California (now closed); Watkins Glen International at Watkins Glen, New York;
Road America at
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin; and Infineon Raceway at Sonoma, California. After a few decades of such events three sons of
Barron Collier—Barron, Miles, and Samuel—founded the
Automobile Racing Club of America in 1933. That organization became the Sports Car Club of America in 1944. Throughout its history, American race car drivers such as Briggs Cunningham, Lake Underwood,
Carroll Shelby, and
Mark Donohue were among the contestants at these road racing events.
Other less famous purpose-built road courses include: Moroso Motorsports Park, Barber Motorsports Park, Miller Motorsports Park, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course,
Heartland Park Topeka,
Lime Rock Park, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Road Atlanta,
Portland International Raceway, and
Virginia International Raceway. Additionally,
Grand Prix motor racing-style road course racing over public streets is making something of a comeback; the most famous race of this sort currently held is the one hosted annually in
Long Beach, California. Other famous street circuits in North America include events held in St. Petersburg, Florida, Vancouver, Canada, and Toronto, Canada. Airport runways figure into several part-time road courses in North America: Burke Lakefront Airport in
Cleveland, Ohio hosts a
Champ Car race every summer; the Streets of St. Petersburg course uses the runway of a
Albert Whitted Airport as its main straight, and Sebring International Raceway, home of the prestigious
12 Hours of Sebring in March, was formerly a military airfield in
Sebring, Florida.
See also
External links
- http://www.rrdc.org/ see - Road Racing Drivers Club - many photographs with biographies of all ever invited to join, living and deceased
- http://www.scca.org/ see - Sports Car Club of America - Large road racing organization in the United States, originally founded as the Automobile Racing Club of America in 1933
- http://www.wera.com/ see - WERA Motorcycle Racing - the largest amateur motorcycle road racing organization in the United States
- National Auto Sports Association see - National Auto Sport Association
- http://www.sportbikes.com International Sportbike Forum
- http://www.trackHQ.com - The Central Archives of Road Course Photos, Videos, and discussion forums for everything related to amateur track day on Road Courses.
- http://www.morosomotorsportspark.com Year-round, full facility motorsports park with a 2.2 mile road course, located in the Palm Beaches of Florida.
- Motorcycling Australia (MA)- Australian Governing Body
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