Thursday, September 27, 2012

Autodrome: The Defunct Airport Turned Motorsports Mecca

September 27, 2012 6:30 AM Text Size: A . A . A Nothing could be more appropriate in the motor city: Take a defunct 264-acre municipal airport and turn it into a motorsports mecca. That was the brainstorm that Larry Webster?editor-in-chief of Road & Track, a brother publication of Popular Mechanics?had in 2012.

It was natural for Webster, a race car driver long before he was a magazine editor, to see the opportunity presented by the Coleman A. Young International Airport, which had its last commercial flight in 2000. Webster floated the idea to local officials and business leaders, and investors lined up to back the autodrome project, which hosts Formula One and other races, serves as an automotive proving ground, and feeds Detroit with a new source of revenue. Now hangars that once sheltered planes house dozens of auto-related businesses, and the runways are racing lanes.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/rebuilding-america/autodrome-the-defunct-airport-turned-motorsports-mecca-13114976?src=rss

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