Watkins Glen International

Track: Watikns Glen International

Laps: 5

Started on: early May

Finished on: 16.05.2015

I tried something diffrent for this track. My original work on united-exchange was simple. Here I tried to mess up with the elevations. And to be honest I had hard time, but I tried to do it like the real-life one as I had a elevation map of the track as a only source as well as the map of the Watkins Glen Circuit.

Located in Watkins Glen, New York, the track named after it's village was the home of the United States Grand Prix from 1961-1980. This is the Long Course, or as the "Boot" as it's know. It departed from the older course since the start finish line has been moved back before the northwest right-angle corner known as "The 90". But despite the improvements the circuit become dangerous for the increasingly faster and stiffer "ground effect" F1 cars at the time in late 70s and a few horrendous, sometime fatal accidents. Rowdy segments of crowd began to tarnish the image of the circuit as well and the 1980 GP race was the last United States Grand Prix being held. However it became home of various american racing series like NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series, 6 Hours at the Glen and others.