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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.11.2011 - 12:14 pm
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The track's 1997 Indy Lights race was basically the only higher-level
race it ever hosted. The track was to host at least another two Indy
Lights races but the promoter, Colonial Motorsports, went bankrupt and
it closed. It wound up a venue for little more than illegal street races
(mostly with motorcycles) for a few years but reopened for vintage
racing in 2008.


  2.   DieselDan posted:
  06.09.2011 - 2:27 am
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The "track" is really a public road built to be used as a racetrack.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.22.2016 - 10:46 pm
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Hutchinson Island sits just south of the South Carolina Georgia border.
This 10-turn track was part of a large redevelopment of the island away
from its prior industrial use, it also included a new convention center
and a nice hotel.

When this track was built it was agreed it would host three Indy Lights
races. The first race would be a standalone affair but if it was a
success there was a chance a main CART race here would join the schedule
for 1998 and 1999. Ultimately the CART race never came to pass after the
promoter's bankruptcy reduced the Lights race to a one-off.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.02.2019 - 10:34 pm
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This track served as a filming location for the 2019 film "Ford v.
Ferrari." The movie is about the famous rivalry between the two titular
car companies at the 24 Hours of Le Mans during the mid-1960s with the
Savannah course doubling for the famous Circuit de la Sarthe during some
scenes.


  5.   Unser1 posted:
  05.01.2020 - 11:20 pm
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This was the only "pre-planned, temporary road course in the world"
during its setup in 1997. It was meant as something of a throwback to
the early street courses.


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