The road course of the raceway park starting at the front gate guard shack, following the roadway down into the skid pad and ending at the drag racing staging lanes.
Race tracks with complex configurations of left and right-hand turns at varying angles. Tracks have a tendency of elevation changes as well. Example: Sears Point Raceway and Watkins Glen International.
a track with both left- and right-hand turns, and elevation changes
A closed course with turns to both the right and the left.
A racetrack with multiple left- and right-hand turns. Generally refers to permanent, purpose-built racing facilities. Can also refer to temporary street courses built on big city streets, which were popularized in the 1980s.
A racing course made up of actual roadways consisting of various straightaways, corners, and bends. For example: a large parking lot with cones placed on it to designate a course would not a a "road course" since it does not consist of an actual roadway; neither would an oval-track be considered a road course since there is little / no variance of corners and straightaways in the course used.
A type of race track that has left and right turns at varying angles. At these tracks teams must use a car designed to turn both directions. The two road courses on the NASCAR circuit are Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International and Infineon Raceway.
