{"id":547001,"date":"2010-04-29T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=20272"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:36:50","slug":"national-corvette-museum-planning-motorsports-park-with-road-courses-drag-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547001","title":{"rendered":"National Corvette Museum Planning Motorsports Park with Road Courses, Drag Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20273\" title=\"National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/National-Corvette-Museum-Motorsports-Park-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Corvette Museum is planning a $35 million motorsports park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The park will be built on 300 acres of land near the museum and GM&#8217;s Corvette assembly plant, and is expected to be ready in two to three years.<\/p>\n<p>The main attraction will be a pair of road courses, the larger of which is designed to mimic the Circuit de la Sarthe, which hosts the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. The East course features a turn modeled on the N\u00fcrburgring\u2019s Caracciola Karussell and a chicane that supposedly apes the Bus Stop at Watkins Glen. Sounds neat if they can pull them off.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-20272\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other plans include a quarter-mile drag strip, a ten-acre autocross area, a skid pad, and a 0.75-mile karting track. Organizers say all the facilities will meet FIA and SCCA rules, and will be open to driver training events as well as open track days. And yes, it&#8217;ll be open to cars other than \u2018Vettes.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/track-to-street-chevy%e2%80%99s-corvette-c6-r-gt2-helps-make-a-better-production-vette\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Track to Street: Chevy\u2019s Corvette C6.R GT2 Helps Make a Better Production Vette'>Track to Street: Chevy\u2019s Corvette C6.R GT2 Helps Make a Better Production Vette<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Corvette Museum is planning a $35 million motorsports park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The park will be built on 300 acres of land near the museum and GM&#8217;s Corvette assembly plant, and is expected to be ready in two to three years. The main attraction will be a pair of road courses, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}