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brucepick · 04-12-2022, 01:10 PM

I managed to find a good detailed summary of course length data for the WGI track. Anyone doing calculations for ideal lap times at any given speed, needs this information.

Here:
https://www.racingcircuits.info/nort...kins-glen.html

What's in the review:

The Inner Loop is on the back stretch, just prior to the big downhill horseshoe bend. It's a chicane, a narrowed portion of the track that requires a quick swerve to the right and then back left again, rejoining the straightaway.

Up till this year, the GGP used the "Short Circuit", without inner loop: 2.428 miles. This year the GGP used the "Grand Prix Circuit", without the Inner Loop (so far as I know), 3.377 miles.

Grand Prix Circuit with Inner Loop - 1992 to date
3.450 miles / 5.552 km

Grand Prix Circuit - 1992 to date
(without the inner loop)
3.377 miles / 5.435 km

Short Circuit with Inner Loop - 1992 to date
2.450 miles / 3.943 km

Short Circuit 1992 to date
(without inner loop)
2.428 miles / 3.907 km

04-12-2022, 01:10 PM	#15 (permalink)
brucepick OCD Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Eastern CT, USA Posts: 1,936 Outasight - '00 Honda Insight Team Honda Gen-1 Insights 90 day: 54.18 mpg (US) Thanks: 431 Thanked 396 Times in 264 Posts	WGI course length I managed to find a good detailed summary of course length data for the WGI track. Anyone doing calculations for ideal lap times at any given speed, needs this information. Here: https://www.racingcircuits.info/nort...kins-glen.html What's in the review: The Inner Loop is on the back stretch, just prior to the big downhill horseshoe bend. It's a chicane, a narrowed portion of the track that requires a quick swerve to the right and then back left again, rejoining the straightaway. Up till this year, the GGP used the "Short Circuit", without inner loop: 2.428 miles. This year the GGP used the "Grand Prix Circuit", without the Inner Loop (so far as I know), 3.377 miles. Grand Prix Circuit with Inner Loop - 1992 to date 3.450 miles / 5.552 km Grand Prix Circuit - 1992 to date (without the inner loop) 3.377 miles / 5.435 km Short Circuit with Inner Loop - 1992 to date 2.450 miles / 3.943 km Short Circuit 1992 to date (without inner loop) 2.428 miles / 3.907 km __________________ Coast long and prosper. Driving '00 Honda Insight, acquired Feb 2016.