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Road America is a permanent road course. It is located midway between the cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay, and classified as an FIA Grade Two circuit. [3] The track is situated on 640 acres (260 ha) near the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive. It has hosted races since September 1955 and currently hosts over 400 events a year. [4]
Track gauge. The vast majority of North American railroads are standard gauge (4 ft 8⁄ in / 1,435 mm). Exceptions include some streetcar, subway and rapid transit systems, mining and tunneling operations, and some narrow-gauge lines particularly in the west, e.g. the isolated White Pass and Yukon Route system, and the former Newfoundland Railway.
The Grand Prix of Road America, also known as the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America for sponsorship reasons, is an IndyCar Series race held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. For twenty-five years, the event was part of CART / Champ Car World Series, with the first race being held in 1982. The event was put on hiatus in 2008 after the ...
Track gauge. Originally, various track gauges were used in the United States. Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8⁄ in (1,435 mm); others used gauges ranging from 2 ft (610 mm) to 6 ft (1,829 mm). As a general rule, southern railroads were built to one or another broad gauge, mostly 5 ft (1,524 mm), while ...
Surface. Asphalt. Length. 4.048 mi (6.515 km) Turns. 14. The Road America 180 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race that has taken place at Road America since 2010. The race has been a standalone race for the series except for in 2021 and 2022 when the NASCAR Cup Series had a race at the track on the same weekend as the Xfinity Series race.
The Trans Am SpeedTour at Road America will feature an impressive lineup of iconic American cars — Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers and Corvettes — thundering around the track in 100-mile races ...
HO is the most popular model railroad scale in both continental Europe and North America, whereas OO scale (4 mm:foot or 1:76.2 with 16.5 mm track) is still dominant in the United Kingdom. There are some modellers in the United Kingdom who model in HO scale and the British 1:87 Scale Society was formed in 1994.
September 10, 2024 at 3:00 AM. ELKHART LAKE – “A three-day journey through time” will take to America’s National Park of Speed this weekend. Road America in Elkhart Lake welcomes the ...