Most drivers who have raced in the United States will vouch for Road America as one of the most thrilling road courses the nation has to offer. Many liken the 4.04-mile track located near Wisconsin’s Elkhart Lake to Belgium's sprawling Spa-Francorchamps. Among them is Bruno Junqueira, for whom Road America has added meaning as a track where he scored four wins during a career in Indycars and sportscars that truly took off after a breakthrough victory there in 2001.
The fast, 14-turn layout has three long straights where “you go at 200mph, so it’s a very good balance about downforce level,” the Miami-based Brazilian explains. The pit straight, the back straight into the downhill Turn 5 left-hander and the flat-out blast out through the Turn 11 kink and under the trees into Canada Corner all afford overtaking opportunities, with Junqueira citing his last lap Turn 5 move on Conor Daly for victory in a 2015 IMSA race as his favourite example.
