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Autobahn Country Club, the Glossary

Autobahn Country Club is an auto racing road course located in Joliet, Illinois, operated as a country club, while also hosting many outside events.^[1]

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Motorsport in Chicago
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Alan Wilson (motorsport)

Alan L. Wilson (born 9 May 1946 in Durban, South Africa. Retrieved 20 December 2007.) is a South African designer of road course race tracks.

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Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams.

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Atlantic Championship Series

The Atlantic Championship Series is an American open-wheel racing series with races throughout North America.

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Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

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Autocross

Autocross is a form of motorsport in which competitors are timed to complete a short course using automobiles on a dirt or grass surface, excepting where sealed surfaces are used in United States.

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Bar (establishment)

A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is an establishment retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks.

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Bobby Rahal

Robert Woodward Rahal (born January 10, 1953) is an American former auto racing driver and current team owner of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.

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Bracket racing

Bracket racing is a form of drag racing that allows for a handicap between predicted elapsed time of the two cars over a standard distance, typically within the three standard distances (1/8 mile, 1,000 foot, or 1/4 mile) of drag racing.

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Conor Daly

Conor J. Daly (born December 15, 1991) is an American racing driver.

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Cooper MacNeil

Cooper Ian MacNeil (born September 7, 1992 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is a retired professional American racecar driver.

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Country club

A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and racing driver.

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Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

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Formula Atlantic

Formula Atlantic is a specification of open-wheel racing car developed in the 1970s.

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Global MX-5 Cup

The Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin is a single-make motor racing championship sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) in the United States.

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Go-kart

A go-kart, also written as go-cart (often referred to as simply a kart), is a type of small sports car, close wheeled car, open-wheel car or quadracycle.

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Graham Rahal

Graham Robert Rahal (born January 4, 1989) is an American race car driver and small business owner.

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Grand tourer

A grand tourer (GT) is a type of car that is designed for high speed and long-distance driving with performance and luxury.

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Gridlife (festival)

GRIDLIFE is a motorsports sanctioning body that hosts a series of music and motorsports festivals at racetracks across the United States.

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GT World Challenge America

The GT World Challenge America is a North American auto racing series launched in 1990 by the Sports Car Club of America.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge

The Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama (also known as IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge) was a one-make racing series based in the United States using Porsche 911 GT3s.

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Jay Howard

Jay Howard (born 16 February 1981) is a British professional race car driver who competes in the IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 and resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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John Edwards (racing driver)

John Michael Edwards (born March 11, 1991) is an American professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver.

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Joliet, Illinois

Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, southwest of Chicago.

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Kart racing

Kart racing or karting is a motorsport discipline using open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts.

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Keith Grant

Keith Robertson Grant (16 February 1941 – 18 June 2012) was a British sound engineer.

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Midwestern Council

The Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs was formed in 1958 and is a confederation of seven separate Wisconsin and Illinois amateur racing organizations.

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National Auto Sport Association

The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) is an American motorsports organization promoting road racing and high-performance driver education.

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One Lap of America

The Brock Yates' One Lap of America is an annual motorsports event in the United States that has been held since 1984.

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Open-wheel car

An open-wheel car is a car with the wheels outside the car's main body, and usually having only one seat.

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Peter Dempsey

Peter Samuel Dempsey (born 31 March 1986) is an Irish racing driver from Ashbourne, County Meath.

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Porsche Club of America

The Porsche Club of America (PCA) is a non-profit organization of Porsche enthusiasts in the United States and Canada.

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Radical Sportscars

Radical Motorsport is a British manufacturer and constructor of racing cars.

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Rallycross

Rallycross is a form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars, similar to the World Rally Cars.

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Road racing

Road racing is a North American term to describe motorsport racing held on a paved road surface.

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Spec Miata

Spec Miata is a class of racing car used in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), National Auto Sport Association (NASA), and Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs (MCSCC) road racing events.

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Sports Car Club of America

The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is a non-profit American automobile club and sanctioning body supporting Autocross, Rallycross, HPDE, Time Trial, Road Racing, and Hill Climbs in the United States.

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Star Formula Mazda 'Pro' (car)

The Star Mazda Pro, is an open-wheel formula racing car, designed, developed and built by Star Race Cars, for the North American Pro Mazda Championship spec-series, between 2004 and 2017.

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Swift 016.a

The Swift 016.a is an open-wheel formula racing car, designed, developed and manufactured by American company Swift Engineering, for the Formula Atlantic spec-series, and has been the sole car used in the series since 2006.

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Tom Bagley (racing driver)

Tom Bagley (born December 3, 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), is a former driver in the USAC, CART Championship Car, IMSA, Formula Atlantic, and Trans-Am Series.

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Track day

A track day is an organised event in which non-members are allowed to drive or ride around established motor racing circuits, or alternatively (though far less common) on closed or disused airfields.

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Trans-Am Series

The Trans-Am Series presented by Pirelli is a sports car racing series held in North America.

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USF Pro 2000 Championship

The USF Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, formerly known as the Star Mazda Championship, Pro Mazda Championship, and later Indy Pro 2000 Championship, is an open-wheel racing series serving as the third step on the Road to Indy ladder system, between the USF2000 Championship and Indy NXT.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn_Country_Club

, 2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship.

Autobahn Country Club, the Glossary

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Motorsport in Chicago

Motorsport venues in Illinois

Road courses in the United States

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