51.   So on Wednesday, he went out to Willow Springs International Raceway in Rosamond to practice driving go-karts on the desert road course.

52.   Stewart won in only his fifth race on a road course.

53.   The defending CART champion spun out on the rain-slicked road course near the end of the race and crashed.

54.   The first time he ran a road course at Watkins Glen, he was seven seconds off the pace of the leaders.

55.   The infield road course has not been used since that accident.

56.   The Long Beach Grand Prix is conducted on a temporary street course and the Willow Springs road course has been bypassed by major sanctioning bodies.

57.   The mostly one-lane, winding road courses through rutted asphalt and past several groups of cows.

58.   The move would require construction of a grand prix-style road course on the speedway grounds.

59.   The other six are road courses, which require tremendous skill and discipline to maneuver your car around hairpin curves and down short straightaways.

60.   The road course in the infield also was repaved and rerouted.