Instead of trusting track maps of Mid-Ohio found online, I decided I wanted to trace the track myself from satellite images. Once I had the entire track using a number of images, I had to stitch the images together to create the entire road course. Using Google Maps satellite images, I zoomed in and screen-captured different sections of the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. So, to assist the rest of my team in understanding the intricacies of the road course in Ohio, I decided to create our own track map and place it on our own white board so we could make notes on the board and then erase them when we came up with a better braking point or apex line. I decided my team needed our own white board track map of Mid-Ohio. I thought that was a great tool and wanted one, but knew the school would frown upon me stealing its stuff. During the school, they used a white board with an outline of the Mid-Ohio track on it to teach us the line around the road course. It was an awesome experience, and I gained a ton from it. I flew to Ohio to attend the School at Mid-Ohio before the race to learn the track.
I had the opportunity to attend The School at Mid-Ohio and during the course they used a white board with a map of the track on it to explain the line around Mid-Ohio.
As a team from California, we had never had the opportunity to run the track, which was a disadvantage for us. In 2019, NASA scheduled its National Championships at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.
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In recent decades, technology has certainly assisted drivers in this process with things like driving simulation games, YouTube videos of in-car footage, and satellite imagery. There is always time to be gained through track familiarization. Part of being a racecar driver is learning new racetracks.
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