Press Releases - Go fast, stay fast, and turn left.

Go fast, stay fast, and turn left.

American Managers have been discussing the lack of oval tracks on international event scale. While we all agree a good road course or city street circuit is fun from time to time, Americans love the thrill of turning left. Oval tracks are our country's greatest tracks.

The tri-oval or rounded triangle in Pocono which has cars screaming around it at a steady 202 MPH or 325 KPH. The Daytona International Speedway once hosted Bill Elliot in a 1987 Ford qualify with a lap speed of 210 MPH or 338 KPH.

Americans love long drawn out oval tracks that reach speeds of epic proportion while grouped in packs of cars that change behaviors based on race lines, paint swapping, bump drafting, and sideswiping at speeds that would destroy most other types of race sport vehicles.

We also have shorter oval tracks. They are usually high banked to still encourage speed, but tracks like Bristol, Richmond, and Martinsville also bring out ill tempered demons in even the best of drivers. Many cars pitted close together on a short oval using brakes, throttle, and the parts of other vehicles around them as ways to power through corners. Yes, turning left over and over again can be exciting when the best drivers are trading paint and bending cars as they work their way through the event.

This week when team managers discussed MRC track and schedule changes, many managers thought it was simply Un American or we would be bad hosts if we did not open up some of the world’s finest Super Speedways up to our international guests. Some even suggested opened a short oval track to show our friends from around the world a contact sport version of racing as well.

We will still welcome folks to our country, but now it looks like Circuit of the Americas and Road America will be our two host tracks in the near future. We may have chose those two tracks to keep it simple for tourists as they come to watch drivers from their home counties because of the track names? Not sure to be honest. But we just want people to know they are welcome to try any of our many ovals as well.