SHOP 01 / FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Your town, to the inch.
Not a track that looks like Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Built from the same survey data the state uses to map floodplains, then detailed until you recognize the corner before you read the sign.
HOW IT GETS BUILT
Public data, not guesswork.
North Carolina was the first state in the country to fly itself with LiDAR, and the state now holds survey-grade elevation data covering every square foot of it. That data is public. So are the county's building footprints and the state's road centerlines.
We start there, then detail the corridor from the ground. The result is a circuit where the crest is where the crest is and the camber is where the camber is, because a survey said so.
The Fayetteville CircuitSHOP 01 / IN DEVELOPMENT
THE BUILD
Four layers, in order.
- ONE
Elevation
State LiDAR gives us the ground surface. Every rise, dip, and crown downtown, at survey grade.
- TWO
The road
NCDOT centerlines and county parcel data set the corridor, the width, and where the curbs actually sit.
- THREE
The buildings
County building footprints give the massing. Photography fills in the faces you would actually recognize.
- FOUR
The surface
Grip, patches, seams, and manholes. This is the part that makes it feel like driving here instead of driving anywhere.
SHOP 01 / THE LOCAL SCHEDULE
Three courses, one town.
Downtown was the first corridor we surveyed. It was never going to be the only one. Every course here comes off the same state LiDAR, the same NCDOT centerlines, and the same trip out with a camera.
- The Fayetteville CircuitDowntown. [X.X] miles, [XX] turns, walls close on both sides and nowhere to put a mistake. The original, and the one the lap record hangs on.
- The Skibo 500Skibo Road with every light green and the lots barricaded off. Four lanes, long straights, and a draft that actually matters. Run a short feature, or run all five hundred if you have the afternoon.
- The Ramsey St SprintNorth on Ramsey, flat out, one lap and done. The whole race is the launch, the shift, and whether you lift. Two minutes start to finish, which makes it the one the trailer runs at events.
- A closed street course, the way a grand prix runsLong Beach and Nashville shut streets down for a weekend. We close ours permanently, in a way that inconveniences nobody and tickets nobody.
- Corners you can nameYou will know where you are without reading a sign. That is the whole point of building your town instead of a generic city.
- Run it in anythingThe circuit is the circuit. Take it in a stock car, a GT car, or something with no business being downtown.
- Every shop gets its ownShop 02 gets its town surveyed the same way. That is the product, not a bonus feature.
Fastest laps in Fayetteville
One board per course, one town, and none of them ever reset. The record holder is somebody who lives here, and anybody who wants it has to come take it in the seat.
Bring your unit, bring your shop crew, bring your kid. A name goes at the top and stays there until it doesn't.
TRACKSIDE
The boards on it are for local businesses.
Every real street circuit has signage. Ours goes to shops, dealers, contractors, and restaurants from here, not to national brands. Every driver who runs a lap drives past you.