Miller Motorsports Park
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Miller Motorsports Park is a road course used for auto, motorcycle and kart racing facility located in Tooele, Utah.
[edit] The Track
The full track is a 23-turn (28-apex), 4.5 mile road circuit run counter-clockwise. The front stretch can see vehicles reaching speeds of 200 mph. Smaller configurations of the track can be made from the full course, including a 3 mile 'perimeter' course that does not use the tighter infield lay-out, as well as two 2.2 mile lay-outs that each use half of the full course. At 4.5 miles, it is the longest road racing facility in North America. It is about 1/2 mile longer than the previous holder, Road America. The 3 mile perimeter layout is one of the fastest road courses in North America, with AMA Superbikes posting average speeds over 100 mph.
Its corner names (in order) are Sunset Bend, Dreamboat, Work Out, Scream, Black Rock Hairpin, Right Hook, Knock Out, Demon, Devil, Diablo, Indecision, Precision, Fast, Faster, Gotcha, Maybe Y'll Makit, Satisfaction, Agony, Ecstasy, 1st Attitude, 2nd Attitude, Bad Attitude, Tooele Turn, Kink, Club House Corner, Wind-Up, and Release.
Miller Motorsports Park also contains a 0.9 mile kart track that can also be configured as a first-rate supermotard track with the inclusion of two dirt sections.
The facility has a 24 acre paddock that contains over 100 team garages, 80 day garages, 27 grand prix garages located along the hot pits, an on-site medical facility, and a helicopter pad.
[edit] History
This track was originally concieved as a novelty track for Larry Miller to use as a personal playground, with a budget of about $10 million. Due to enormous local motorcycle and auto industry support the concept gradually grew into an $85 million plus project, one of a kind in the U.S. The track was designed by world renowned engineer Alan Wilson. The Kart track was opened in September of 2005 and the large track was opened to the public April 1st of 2006, by Larry H. Miller, who owns the NBA's Utah Jazz.
In 2006, the track's first year of operation, it hosted the Utah Grand Prix American LeMans Series, Honda Summit of Speed AMA Superbike double-header event, and the Sunchaser 1000 race, a 9-hour endurance road course race held by the Grand American Road Racing Association. It is unusual for a race track to attract so many relatively big-budget race events in its first year of operation. The track is also host to a WERA Grand National motorcycle roadracing event and the regional motorcycle roadracing series Masters of the Mountains, promoted by the Utah sport bike association.
The facility was named Motorsports Facility of the Year on Nov. 8 by the Professional Motorsport World Expo in Cologne, Germany.
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