Louis Deletraz is racing at Road Atlanta for the first time this weekend in the Petit Le Mans IMSA SportsCar Championship finale. But the 2.54-mile ribbon of asphalt snaking through the Georgian woodland jumped straight to number one on the Swiss driver’s list of favourite circuits after a single test at the place. That’s despite ending up in a car park after getting it wrong at the last corner on his out-lap!
“The track is very narrow with no margin for error, and there are lots of blind corners,” says Deletraz, who together with Rui Andrade will be trying to help John Farano win the IMSA LMP2 title in the 10-hour race on Saturday aboard an ORECA-Gibson 07 entered under the Tower Motorsport banner. “It’s all about commitment: as soon as you relax you lose five or six tenths straight away.
