Petit Le Mans: miss it and risk missing one of the best races this year
By: Steven Cole Smith, Editor in Chief, Motorsport.com
The 10-hour endurance race starts Saturday, but action starts on Wednesday.
"On October 4, this first TUDOR Championship season ends with what promises to be a blockbuster event – the Petit Le Mans Power by Mazda, a tradition in the American Le Mans Series since 1998 that was wisely included in the combined series. As always, it will be held at the historic Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia, a challenging, viewer-friendly road course that contains the modern conveniences, packaged inside an “old school” track that has the look and feel of some of the great road courses from around the world.
How so? Because Road Atlanta, built in 1970, isn’t one of those sterile, cookie-cutter, “You can sit here, but you can’t sit there” kind of places. Drive across the bridge, and you are literally inside the tree-filled facility, and you can drive or walk to dozens of excellent vantage points all over the 12-turn, 2.54-mile track. The massive infield is mostly raised, so you can look down on large portions of the track, and in a race like Petit Le Mans – a grueling 10 hours, with 54 cars on the entry list in four classes – count on there being action everywhere."
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