This Weekend: Road Racin'

This weekend, the NASCAR Sprint Cup & Nationwide series travel to some famous road racing venues: Infineon Raceway in California and Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

This will be the first time that the Nationwide Series has been to Road America. This track is 4 miles long... the longest track on the whole NASCAR circuit. The race length for Saturday's Bucyrus 200 presented by Menards is 50 laps, equaling 200.4 (approx.) miles. You might be sayin' ...50 laps? that's all? Well... it's 4 miles with 14 turns... left, left... left, right, left .......

Road America is a replacement for once raced at Mexico City track. That was a fun road course race to watch. I think the main reason NASCAR moved from Mexico City was because of the main straightaway... i remember, NASCAR had made "turns" on the straight out of cones because the cars were carrying too much speed into the turn. I think it was Carl Edwards, who totaled his car because he carried way too much speed and when he tried to turn through the man-made cones, his car turned head-on into the wall (don't quote me on this... but i know something happened along those lines).

I don't think Saturday will be a let down. I've never seen a race at Road America, and im excited to see what will happen. These NASCAR drivers are used to turnin' left; some of them have never seen Road America before, so this race will be quite an unknown factor to both the drivers and fans. Who knows what will happen...

Sunday, the Sprint Cup Series returns to Infineon Raceway. Last year, Kasey Kahne got his first ever road course victory coming at Infineon. Can he do it again? Who knows... im sure the road course "ringers" will have something to say about it though.

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Until next time, I'm Steph Piech for The Finish Line