For the second time in my life I have visited Wisconsin. It will not be my last visit. When I made the decision to travel to Road America I was expecting to find an awesome race track. What I found was great weather and a beautiful state filled with warm, friendly people. Rural Wisconsin has a charm about it. I found myself wonderfully relaxed and energized. Vacations have a way of doing that, don't they?
So what is the track like? Well, it's long......really long. It's sort of like a combination of Road Atlanta's long straights and VIR's twisties. It isn't as wide and pristine like Barber but it is a fun, proper race track with some really high speed corners that test your nerve for sure.
I really enjoyed the tight turn 5 and the faster than I wanted to go carousel. But my favorite part of the track is the section past the carousel to the final corner leading onto the front stretch. You are in the woods for this entire section, nothing but the track, the fencing and trees for scenery. It is serene and ultra fast all the way to Canada corner. Exiting Canada corner you're hard on the gas through an uphill right then a fast left where you just pop out into the open from the woods. I actually giggled in my helmet every time through that section.
That is the beauty of track riding. When you're out there it's just you, your machine and the racetrack. You can feel the years peel away like the layers of an onion with every lap. It's a pure joy that isn't easily described. Let's just say it's a hell of a lot of fun.
