Get a faster car and will you understand why it's one of the better tracks in America

It's really a "big boy" track, AKA it's really meant for the pros. I've gone there all my life and finally drove on it last fall, and it scared the shit out of me the first day. It's also a lot different when it's a track day vs a wheel to wheel racing event. I did The Kink flat out, and God that's fucking scary 😂

Road America is not boring at all! I always love IMSA and Indycar at Road America they have bunch of exciting finishes

Fun fact, all turns at Road America you are either going up hill or down hill into the turn. 🙃

The most favorite track I have ever driven. Raced for over 20 years

I'm going up there for my first time October 2023 for an endurance race in a sub 100hp car, and I'm still scared shitless.

Not only is the natural terrain quite beautiful (The National Park of Speed) around RA, it is also one of the best and fastest road courses in the USA, if not the entire world, and it’s hard to find an experienced race driver who doesn’t just love to race there ! I’ve raced an A Production Big Block Corvette at RA for over 10 years, and it has everything a driver wants and in a race track. High speeds and technical and varied corners. I’ve never heard a pro race driver say anything but “it’s one of the best tracks’ to race.. That said, with slower low horsepower cars, (such as this one) it could be a bit boring driving down those long straightaways. If that’s your complaint, I would suggest going to a track that is 2 miles around, or less.

Road America is fucking awesome. 11/10.

Knowing that if you chicken out right before the kink and lift or go in too aggressively you are going to ping pong off walls for 1/4 of a mile def has that pucker factor.

Once you drive there in an open wheeler you'll give it a higher score.. I N S A N E L Y dramatic and fun as hell

Come on Andy, It’s a least a 6 or 7. The shear speeds that can be reached its what the best part of the track. Many passing opportunities for racing ( depends class) I will agree with the slower cars can be boring but that challenge is to straighten it as much as possible. Carrying speed is name of the game.

I enjoy Road America in the sim. I'm sure the kink is terrifying in real life, but in a sim it's my favorite part and I nail it nearly every time.

So Kettle Bottoms is after the kink and before Canada corner. Thunder Valley is after Canada Corner and before turn 13.

They take turn 1 at over 100 in most cases.

It's a great place..total package..plenty of camping space..nice folks..good bathrooms/showers.. and a challenging track especially for the ones running 20 min sprints where you maybe see each corner 4-5 times per run..its my highlight of the season!

you forgot to mention the huge "lump" headded down into turn 5,, I found you have to go from inside L to outside R on the straight to avoid a very unsetteling bump while in the last 500m of a downwards faceing hard L turn..

Doesn't matter if it's boring. Sebring, RA, Glen, Daytona. Legends win at these places with the best machinery. I have a blast running shit local tracks and would love to run world class tracks like this

I've got lots of laps at Road America and I love it. Your point is understood because you have a slowww car.

It's Thunder Valley, not Thunder Alley, and it's climbing the hill out of 12.

If you have a fast enough car, it gets your attention. Say like a F5000. Try the kink flat out in a F5000. Plus if your good the carousel can be challenging. Again many drivers blow corner 5. It's marked corner 2(it ain't) because it is a worker station at a blind crest.

Thanks for bringing us yet another vibe 🥂 enjoyed

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="99">1:39</a>.866 / 145.924mph in 2000 during qualifying. If any of you witnessed this amazing feat, you should have. Dario was on fire. Just amazing speed and it seemed like he could have gotten even more out of the car. Just a great driver and person. Unless they change the rules, this record will stand for a long time. 23 years is incredible. Back in 1973 the great and super cool Mark Donohue broke the record with a <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="117">1:57</a>.518 @ 122.534 mph. This was the first time anyone had ever broke the 2 minute mark. This was the monster Porsche 917/30 with up to 1500 hp on hand if they turned up the boost and the record stood for 9 years until Danny Sullivan broke it in 1982 with an open wheel Indy car! If you want to see proper road racing with massive top speeds and G stopping braking, and 90 degree corners, this is it. Watching the cars exit and accelerate hard after braking is amazing. So many tracks are just fast sweepers and yawn fests. Overrated. Road America will blow your mind for any event. The days of open viewing are gone though. The insurance company has made them put up catch fences that did not exist until the last 15 years. It used to feel so open and you could go anywhere to see the cars without looking through giant nets. And as for the kink, it is not real until you see it. They now have a viewing area to see this horrifying right that the top cars take flat out. Canada corner. Wow! The speeds of turn one and 14 leave you in amazement the first time. Just go you guys. It will blow your mind.

Racing is about speed. Who's the fastest. Etc. If you're scared and give it a 4, you probably shouldn't be racing. Big track, big hp. I give it an 8. I give it a 10 for the fact that they have so many schools and so much access for common, every day race car people, not just big teams

Click bait title works. No flowing corners, other than 6-7, 12-13-14. Many describe it as a power track, but good lap times are a product of corner exit of 1,3,6,and 8 or 10 (depending on the car) assuming you are set up to go flat in the Kink - so handling is the key to a fast lap. Not a place I’d be going 10/10ths in a street car either.

Andy is kinda right. can see his point but RACING this track is a riot whether your in a slower car or not. First half ( through turn 5) is fast . Turn 6 thru 14 is very technical leading into the fast home stretch. A lot of strategy is running through your mind, to see where your fast or where you can maybe pass. So Andy, try racing here not just lapping. Hopefully you’ll change your mind.

Boring? Dude, it's time to upgrade your ride! RA has it ALL - a glorious track for cars with serious power.

Much less boring than this video.

This guy doesn't know what hes talking about

Do a few laps on a superbike, like I have done MANY times, and then we'll talk about how boring it supposedly is......

it's only boring if you're going slow.

This track is a blast on a bike.

Your car is so little on horsepower I run FE2 and F1600 and I bet if you got in a car like that you would change your mind this is a premier track in North America I don’t know what you are talking about at all.

Dario F told me it’s his favorite along with Suzuka He doesn’t seem like a boring guy The straight can get boring but they allow you to collect your thoughts and reflect on life and retirement and whether your life insurance is current

False road america is an amazing track

I just bought a 2019 Cadillac CTS Vsport. It has 420 hp. I want to take it here because I only live about 3 hours away. I live about 40 minutes from Chicago in Indiana. I've never been on a track, but want to enjoy the car for what it was meant for. Any advice from anyone? Thanks in advance.

Mario Andretti said it is one of his favorite tracks. Who is this amateur??

Speed is easy...quickness is elusive.

If you think Road America is boring you aren’t going fast enough.

High hp cars love RA. Mid 160s and goal will be to crack 170. It rewards high HP cars. I would be bored stiff a 150hp car.

Are 2 and 4 really turns?

Thank you so much for this! I've been here, maybe 7-10 times over the past 20 years and share your assessment but often get questioned about it. Glad I'm not alone.

I really wish the runoff area was wider at the kink and just beyond. I see in satellite view railroad tracks and a creek to track left; so it's obviously tight there. Too many bad crashes happen there. You can barely fit recovery vehicles on the grass without poking onto the track. The '23 June Sprints had a very bad t-bone crash with a P1 and Formula car. The cars just bounce off the wall and end up right in front of oncoming drivers. SRFs had a huge pile up there same weekend as well. This hobby isn't safe and never will be, but that corner is too much for me.

I won't argue with your 4. Been there twice, two different low power cars, once with the chicane, once with the kink. The place drips with history and I think it's pretty cool that I've driven it, but I've driven a lot of tracks that were more fun. When I ran with the kink I was on very hard tires and had much respect for that turn. A driver in another group wrecked there; we had a couple hours of red flag. He wasn't hurt, but they did cart him off in the ambulance.

Try it on a bike. Also if you hated this track then you certainly won't like Laguna Seca.

Racing anywhere with 150hp is pretty boring tbh, unless you have a 1,500lb car. I just wish they would have moved the start/finish line more down to the beginning of the long front stretch, it's not in a good spot for fans watching

Jeremy Clarkson drove a McLaren P1 at Spa. My dream is to drive a P1 here.

For me Risk = Fun :)

I use to race the 750 ama class for a big racing and still Elkhart lake main sponsor Willy World Suzuki out of Joliet Illinois 30 years ago before there was such a thing as traction control ever existed you had to have big ball's and in very good shape i was a semipro bodybuilder as well this complaining skinny little girl would've never raced with me 30 years ago no way girlie man

Its better than Cataluna at least

Road america is the very Best track in The US. This Sounds like a guy who is just reviewing it 1000 miles away in a classroom and never has been there or drivin on it personally. His idea of a good track would probably be Baby park from mario kart

Nope, agree with 4. I almost lost it coming out of the carousel doing 90mph. The straights were fine, but the danger made me not want to drive as hard as I could. Never felt this way at BIR or Blackhawk. Hated that 2 of the three fastest turns are down hill and not easy to brake in a straight line. You essentially need to brake as soon as you can get the wheel straight. If you don't straighten out, you spin and crash, if you brake too late, you fly off the track and crash, or you yank the wheel and spin and crash. All of those crashes would be into concrete... Want to go after they repave it though!

In a low hp car it can be boring, get a faster car something that goes over 120 mph . Not technical get comfortable with passing in the kink Life begins at 150 mph

Yet I was there today and you were. It’s pretty ducking awesome in a 720s…

Mr. Smedegard, with all due respect, and remember I'm sayin with all due respect, this track rating aint worth a velvet painting of a whale and a dolphin gettin it on.

You are more than welcome to never grace Road America. It will survive just fine without you.

I do motorcycle track days there. My friends think I'm crazy for saying the track is also boring and one of my least favorite tracks. I would rather go to NCM, or Gingerman.

RAis definitely not boring. Best track in the US.

Sorry but this is the best track in the US. You are very wrong. Just because it isn't in california doesn't mean its bad

Well this was a waste of time.

Boring? That’s funny.

You say 14 corner but 2 of them are functionally straights. I can see why you say what you do.

Anyone who says road America is boring, not fun or you don’t like it is no real racer. IMHO probably lacking in driving ability and balls..... “very boring track” 🤣🤣

You are slow, we get it

Clearly most of you need to research Andy before flaming him. He’s right you know

I am choosing to Ignore his opinion.