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Circuit of the Americas (COTA) is a Grade 1 [2] FIA-specification 3.426-mile (5.514 km) motor racing track and facilities located in Austin, Texas, United States. The facility is home to the Formula One United States Grand Prix , NASCAR Texas Grand Prix , and the Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas , [ 3 ] a round in MotoGP and the FIA World ...
[3] [8] COTA was joined on the 2019 schedule by a revived Grand Prix of Monterey on September 22, the season finale and the first IndyCar race at Laguna Seca in 15 years. [7] COTA's IndyCar Classic was the second race of the 2019 season, [9] [10] following the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg two weeks earlier on March 10.
Although he added excluding COTA as a potential NASCAR host track would be an "injustice", Stewart also argued the "worst thing [NASCAR] could ever do is take one of the races from Texas Motor Speedway." [5] Aerial view of COTA. On September 30, 2020, NASCAR revealed the 2021 Cup Series schedule with a COTA race planned for May 23. [10]
NASCAR keeps driving up the ratings. Five drivers have won the first five races. The averages of 35.4 lead changes and 14.2 lap leaders per race are all-time highs.
The track has 12 turns, including the famous "esses" between turns three and five; and Turn 12, a downhill, diving turn. The track is owned by IMSA Holdings, LLC through its subsidiary Road Atlanta, LLC , and is the home to the Petit Le Mans , as well as AMA motorcycle racing, and smaller events throughout the year.
The Germania Insurance Amphitheater (originally the Tower Amphitheater, then Austin360 Amphitheater) called for sponsorship reasons, is an outdoor amphitheatre that is part of the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) located in Austin, Texas, USA. The venue opened in November 2012 with a capacity of 14,000. There are 6,700 fixed reserved seats. [4]
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
The track followed the edge of the hillside to two uphill right-hand turns, over an exciting blind crest into a right-hand turn, down and up into a left-hand turn rejoining the old track. The new layout measured 3.377 miles (5.435 km); with its intrinsic link to the Formula One race, it became known colloquially as the Grand Prix Circuit .