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Why are you even bothering to showcase this Jeep? David Tracy has undoubtedly already bought it and added it to his queue of Jeeps I Need To Finally Fix.

Local is Spokane Raceway Park, but my “bucket list” track was the Glen. Not exactly racing (lead-follow); but it was me, in my own car, driving the historic circuit.

Brainerd International Raceway. It’s my local track so of course I’m going to pick it. The front straight is a drag strip where they hold NHRA Top Fuel races (badass) and turn 1 is a banked flat out corner for most race cars. Meaning you floor it for 1/2 mile then take a banked corner to the right. It’s like freaking M…

I’m supposed to get my first track day in there this year, if the shocks and struts I ordered in February ever effing show up.

I liked Mid-Ohio well enough until I went to VIR. I love VIR. North course is groovy and awesome, and Full Course is just great for hitting high speeds right before the uphill braking zone on the back straight into Roller Coaster. Would love to try the Grand Course someday.

Streets of Willow FTW. 1.5 miles of fun, without long straights for the “moar powa” crowd to pass me and hold me up in the corners...

Thunderhill is pretty fantastic... 5 miles of ups, downs, twists and turns. It’s a fast track, good paddock, clean bathrooms, and showers...

This is a very tough question for me, because every track has its own unique appeal. I’ve enjoyed many of them.

The day in 2006 that I drove on that track the temperature was 110 degrees F. It was so hot that they waived the long pants rule and let us wear shorts. I had my most, uh, puckering, track experience that day, with my brakes really fading coming up to turn 8 after that long straight. I just barely managed to slow down…

Gingerman is a great track for all skill levels.

My home track, Heartland Motorsports Park road course in Topeka, KS. It’s 2.5 miles long, 14 corners, and has a bit of everything. Long straights, sweepers, chines, hairpins, and even a butt puckering elevated blind left to right hander after the front straight called ‘Alpha’. Fast laps are under 2 minutes. It’s a…

Le Circuit of Mt-Tremblant, alas now closed and sold last year (was own by Stroll). Jim Russel had a racing school there - Jacques Villeneuve had followed a course there with Russel. The video is me with my Abarth (first time driving on a track) - jump to the last 2 minues, the early sequence is a bit boring, I was…

The Putt-N-Stuff “Bullit”-level go kart experience off US 30 near Wooster, Ohio, where I showed up all of my wife’s hillbilly extended family of “real” race car drivers (they spend all their money from selling meth and copper wire on a dirt track car). When asked at the end “where I learned how to race”, I just said…

My local rack is High Plains Raceway - about an hour east of Denver. Its such a a great track - it has massive elevation changes, off camber turns, two really good straights - and Fridays there are like 70 bucks to run all day. This turn - turn 11 OMG

My road course experience is limited to a half dozen or so tracks, but out of the ones I’ve driven on, Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka was the most fun. It had some long straights, some challenging (to a beginner) corners, and even slight elevation changes (which is always a surprise in the Great Plains :) ).…

The only track I’ve actually driven around is COTA on a kart, so if we’re limited to only that we’ve physically driven then I guess it’s that by default (but it’s a pretty decent track anyway).

I have to go with what I know, and thanks to the US Army packing my ass off to Germany, I’ve been to the Nurburgring. There I watched the German Grand Prix.

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