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The other problem with the longer road courses, I find, is that NASCAR doesn't use many local yellows. When you go full course yellow on a 4-mile track with stock cars, it takes a very, very, very long time as they need to do a minimum number of laps for pitting. Road America's NNS race is my least favorite to watch on TV simply because the full course yellows are agonizingly long and many of them could have just been local.
So, if NASCAR wants to run these huge, iconic road courses in Europe, they need to think about that. Otherwise, I'll take a shorter track.
Knockhill has my vote, of course.
The cars aren't built for tight corners, but we like Martinsville and the hairpin at Montréal, don't we? Part of the appeal of stock cars is seeing them do things they're really not supposed to be doing...drivers get "creative."
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