Summit Point Motorsports Park

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**Summit Point Motorsports Park**
Summit Point Main Circuit


Location	Summit Point, WV, USA
Capacity	open seating without capacity limitation
Owner	Bill Scott Racing, Inc.
Operator	Bill Scott Racing, Inc.
Broke ground	1969
Opened	1973
Major Events	The 12 Hours at the Point - SCCA

Circuit Length	3.22 km (2.0 mi)
Turns	10

Jefferson Circuit
Circuit Length	1.80 km (1.12 mi)
Turns	7

Shenandoah Circuit
Circuit Length	3.54 km (2.2 mi)

Summit Point Motorsports Park is a road racing and driver training facility located in Jefferson County, West Virginia about two hours west of Washington, D.C. in the state's Eastern Panhandle, depending on traffic.

1 Current status
2 History
3 Circuits
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Current status

Owned and operated by Bill Scott Racing, Inc.^[1], Summit Point Motorsports Park features three road racing circuits that are currently used for amateur automobile, kart, and motorcycle racing, high performance driver education and emergency training for local and federal law enforcement, as well as foreign service officers who may be posted to dangerous locales.

[edit] History

Built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Summit Point Motorsports Park — then, simply "Summit Point Raceway" — opened in 1973 as a professional racing venue. Falling into dire financial straits, the track closed in the late 1970s and was purchased in the early 1980s by 1970 Formula Vee World Champion Bill Scott, who added two additional road courses in 1996 and 2004.

[edit] Circuits

Summit Point Main layout

[edit] Summit Point Main

Summit Point Main is a 10-turn, 2.0-mile (3.2 km) road course that features a 2,900-foot (880 m) main straight.

The Track opened in 1970. Based on personal knowledge and belief the very first races held there were IMSA International Sedans,^[2] later to become The Radial Tire Series, and Pro Formula Ford. The event was held on Memorial Day, 30/5/1970. The holiday was still celebrated on the 30th back then. Rasey Feezell won in an Alfa Romeo 4 door sedan, whose modifications were very questionable. Five of the eleven entrants were from Raleigh, NC. A Pro Formula Ford race was also held. The track was host to a number of professional races organized by IMSA and the SCCA Trans-Am Series through the late 1980s.

No longer a professional track, it hosts many SCCA, BMWCCA and NASA club races and schools, in addition to amateur motorcycle races.

The Main Circuit is also the annual home of the Jefferson 500 vintage race and The 12 Hours at the Point endurance race.

The Main Circuit was repaved in the Fall of 2007.^[3]

Jefferson Circuit layout

[edit] Jefferson Circuit

The Jefferson Circuit is a seven-turn, 1.12-mile (1.80 km) road course that was designed and built by Bill Scott as a dedicated course for high-performance, accident avoidance and emergency operation driver training. Opened in 1996 or 1997, the Jefferson is a course that demands constant attentiveness and smooth inputs from drivers.^[4]^[5]

The Jefferson hosts a number of driver training schools, as well as a handful of motorcycle trackdays each year.

[edit] Shenandoah Circuit

The Shenandoah Circuit is a 2.2-mile (3.5 km) road course that first opened in 2004. Widely considered one of the most technical circuits of the recent crop of race courses, the Shenandoah also boasts a smaller scale replica of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife's famous banked Karussell turn. It's also known as the concrete jungle.^{[citation needed]}

Since opening in late 2004, the Shenandoah has played host to a number of high performance driver education clinics, a handful of road races and a number of motorcycle races. After a number of races and schools, minor changes were made to the track layout in late-2004/early-2005, including the addition of a straight between turns 5 and 7.