Road Atlanta (iRacing)

Road Atlanta

Information
Location	Braselton, Georgia
Country	USA
Configurations
Full Course 4.08 km 2.54 miles Short Course 2.83 km 1.76 miles Club Course 2.91 km 1.81 miles

Information

If they built a roller-coaster for road-racing drivers, it would look a lot like Road Atlanta, the 2.54-mile hill-and-dale 12-turn circuit nestled in the red-earth hill country 35 miles north of Atlanta, GA. Home to IMSA’s Petit Le Mans sports car endurance race, Road Atlanta also hosts Sports Car Club of America professional, national and regional amateur sports car racing (Road Atlanta was for 23 years home to the SCCA’s National Championship Runoffs) as well as numerous other professional and amateur motorcycle racing, karting, drifting and Skip Barber Racing schools and race meets.

From the day the track opened in the fall of 1970, drivers have found themselves alternately mesmerized and terrified by the serpentine rhythms of this challenging race track.

A single lap begins with a gut-sucking very fast uphill right-hand sweeper, followed by a left-hander over the crest of a hill, and right into the downhill and uphill combination called the Esses. Then a brief downhill straightaway, followed by the banked 90-degree fast Turn 6 and almost immediate hard braking for the slowest, tightest corner on the course. Turn 7 leads onto the so-called back straight, which actually wends its pedal-to-the-metal way right and left and up over a crest and then down a hill.

A gentle right followed by a sharp left-right chicane were added in 1996, eliminating perhaps the scariest few hundred feet of pavement in North America: Road Atlanta’s notorious “dip,” a suspension-bottoming down-and-up taken by really fast cars at nearly 200 mph . . . which was followed by hard braking up a hill and through the thread-the-needle, blind-apex, under-the-bridge Turn 11, which is today negotiated under slightly less frenetic circumstances. But the fast downhill run through the sweeping right-hand Turn 12 onto the pit straight is just as hair-raising as it ever was. That’s one lap of Road Atlanta; repeat as necessary.

Configurations

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  Full Course

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  Short Course

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  Club Course

Race Results

iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series

Season	Pole position	Fastest lap	Race Winner		Broadcast
			Driver	Team
2010	Greger Huttu	Greger Huttu	Greger Huttu	Team Redline
2011	Jesse Nieminen	Jesse Nieminen	Klaus Kivekäs	My3id Gaming
2012	Riku Alatalo	Greger Huttu	Greger Huttu	Team Redline

VRS GT iRacing World Championship

Season	Pole position	Race Winner		Broadcast
		Team	Manufacturer
2018	#14 FA Racing G2 LogitechG	#14 FA Racing G2 LogitechG	Audi
	Frederik Rasmussen	Frederik Rasmussen Sebastian Job

Porsche Esports Supercup

Season	Pole position	Race	Fastest lap	Race Winner		Broadcast
				Driver	Team
2020	Joshua K Rogers	Sprint	Joshua K Rogers	Alejandro Sánchez	MSI eSports
		Main	Joshua K Rogers	Joshua K Rogers	Virtual Racing School
2021	Charlie Collins	Sprint	Dayne Warren	Joshua K Rogers	Virtual Racing School
		Main	Charlie Collins	Joshua K Rogers	Virtual Racing School