MotoAmerica Motorcycle Racing Returns to Road Atlanta

Watching motorcycles race on the twelve turns in 2.54 miles at the Road Atlanta racetrack (near the little spot on the map known as Chestnut Mountain, GA) doesn’t sound as exciting as riding your own motorcycle on the exhilarating Tail of the Dragon, on Route 129 …

Elena Myers Races Like a Girl at Road Atlanta’s MotoAmerica

Don’t think girls can ride motorcycles?  Come to Road Atlanta over the weekend of April 17-19, 2015 and watch Elena Myers race like a girl in the big league MotoAmerica road races. It didn’t go over too well at the time, but when I met Darrell …

Bring a Child’s $20 Gift & See NASA Races at Road Atlanta

It’s hard to capture all that’s going on at Road Atlanta this weekend in one short headline.  Yes, you get to watch your favorite NASA races with high performance street cars and race cars battling for position around the Road Atlanta circuit.  Yes, you can bring …

See Spooky-Fast SCCA Racing at Road Atlanta

The promotional material about the Sports Car Club of America’s (SCCA) races at Road Atlanta over the Halloween weekend mentions “fire-breathing Corvettes.”   Ain’t that the truth! SCCA races include the widest and wildest variety of cars driven by amateur and semi-pro drivers anywhere this side of I-285 …

The Petit Le Mans ~ Road Atlanta Captures the Racing World’s Attention

With the possible exception of Gainesville’s notoriety for being the Poultry Capital of America, we don’t receive much global attention.  Even our Bridge to Nowhere downtown doesn’t get its share of the world’s notice.  Then, once a year, the Petit Le Mans races come to Road Atlanta …

Fatality at Road Atlanta Motorcycle Races

What began as another weekend of world-class WERA motorcycle racing ended with a fatality at Road Atlanta. According to Hall County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Deputy Nicole Bailes 29-year-old Andrew White from Dallas, Georgia, was participating in one of the WERA motorcycle events on Saturday, …

Pictures from Road Atlanta’s ‘Mitty’ Vintage Car Race

  Reporters and professional journalists must not insert their own opinions or biases into their stories.  (Sure, they do it all the time, but officially they can’t.) Not being an actual reporter or professional much of anything, I have the liberty to tell you to drop …

Mitty Vintage Races at Road Atlanta April 24-27, 2014

There’s a bit of Walter Mitty in us all. Who is he?  According to the website who2.com: Walter Mitty appears in the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, written by humorist James Thurber and published in The New Yorker in 1939. Mitty is …

Road Atlanta Racers are Starting Their Engines

March is starting off like a Ferrari at Road Atlanta, just down the road from Lake Lanier. First in line are the National Auto Sport Association (NASA) races, beginning on Friday, March 14, 2014. These outstanding motor car competitions have: Endurance Challenges, Spec Miata, American Iron, …

Road Atlanta’s 2014 Race Schedule

Road Atlanta is world famous, nationally renowned and a virtual secret in North Georgia. It seems that folks come from everywhere but close to home to watch just about anything on wheels race around the 2.54-mile road course that’s officially in Braselton, GA, just a …