racetracks

Road Atlanta is s a 2.54-mile road course located in Braselton, Georgia, Indiana, USA. The track has 12 turns, including the famous "esses" between turns three and five, and Turn 12, a downhill, diving turn. This racetrack has seen a fair amount of crashes due to its technicality of the course. One of the greatest crashes was when a Porsche 911 GT1 backflipped and flew into the side barriers!

Its hard to see but that is a black corvette Z06!

The Silverstone Circuit is located Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England. Silverstone Circuit is 3.194 miles long, and has 17 turns. Mostly just F1 racecars race here. One raceday in april it had finished raining, So the main parking area which consists of grass was turned into a giant mudbath. So most of the people actually came in on Helicopters, which made Silverstone raceway airport the busiest airport in the UK for the day.
Track Map:

Laguna Seca is Located near Monterey, California, USA. It is a 163,696 square mile state on the west coast of the USA. Most of the 36,756,666 people who live here do speak english.

While In california we went to the Laguna Seca Raceway. This track is 2.238 miles long and features a 300 foot elevation change. The famous corkscrew turns at turns 8 and 8A on the map below!:

So while we were visiting in Japan I remembered that I really wanted to go see the Tsukuba Circuit! The track has a huge variety of corners ranging from wide sweepers to hairpins. There is room for 8500 spectators at the track, 3000 in the stands, 5000 on lawn seats and a further 500 standing over the pits.
Here is the pit area where the racers and their pit crew work on there cars before, during, and after races:

Here are a couple of cars that were there during the race weekend!

Here are three of one of my favorite cars! The Subaru WRX STI!

So while In Tokyo, I remembered that this is the town of the famous "Bullet train" system. This train system was quite amazing to me. The first train to be on the tracks was able to reach about 130 mph. This trains safety record is simply amazing. There has been only 1 derailment October 23, 2004 which was caused by an earthquake. Of the 154 passengers absolutely none died. there has been only one fatality which was cause by a door closing on a passenger.