[nolamsp] WEC Coming to NOLA?

Which begs the question: Why is Alex Brundle running a P2 car around NOLA? Is it a portent of things to come? It's all very exciting, I must say. In fact, it's made me go positively all Ed Grimley I must say. I will keep an ear to the ground and an eye to the hole in the fence and try to keep us posted. The track layout itself is very nice, certainly sufficient for Indy racing. If all F1 had to worry about was bringing cars and driving them around, it's a very nice layout for that as well. Unfortunately, the facility itself lacks a lot of the F1 requirements, but there is plenty of room for them, and hopefully bringing a series as popular as Indy, and (fingers crossed) an international series like WEC will help that revenue bubble start to build to the point where those investments can be made.

The track as currently configured is 2.75 miles, with some very nice technical twisty bits along with some hair raising straights. The "south" extension will add an additional 2.8 miles to the track, and several different configurations. Below is an aerial view of the track from a few weeks ago, along with a drawing of what they are working on now.



The currently complete section of track seen in the first photo in the upper right quad is the "North" section at 2.75 miles. If you look to the left, you can see a footprint of the new section. Lower right quad is the autocross pad, and the lower left is the karting tracks.
Below is how it looks today, 16-March 2015. Clearing has begun and work is in progress. Southren Brethren rejoice! We may finally have some racing to watch that doesn't hipmotize you by making your eyeballs go around in circles. In these photo's, the track proper is to the right. In the last one, where you can see the hood of the awesome black F150 Raptor, that's the covered pit lane to the far right.


As an added behind the scenes director's cut bonus, here's my cool all access wrist band