Journal
Kim Kristian's racing diary
Posted 18.06.2008
Next race, Road America
It's getting closer to my next race, and i'm looking forward to it. It's going to be at Road America.
Road America is the world’s fastest permanent road course located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin - midway between the cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay and only minutes from the shores of Elkhart Lake and Lake Michigan.
Situated on 640 rolling acres of Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine, RA has hosted races since September of 1955 and currently hosts over 400 events a year. Among them the American Le Mans Series and the SPEED World Challenge.
Road America is one of only a hand-full of road circuits in the world maintaining its original configuration being 4.048 miles in length and 14 turns. The track features many elevation changes, along with a long front stretch where speeds approaching 200 mph (300 km/h) may be reached. One of the best known features of this course is a turn on the backside known as "the kink." Although Road America as a whole is extremely challenging, “the kink” tests both machine and its driver or rider to the limit.
