National Corvette Museum launches effort to build a track complex

Driving to the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., ranks high on the must-do list of many car enthusiasts.

Driving away from the museum in a shiny new Corvette is a dream realized by several hundred people each year, part of Chevrolet's factory-delivery program.

Now, the museum wants to make it possible to drive while you're there.

The nonprofit group that oversees the National Corvette Museum is launching a drive to build a track complex on land on the other side of Interstate 65.

We're not talking just a little handling track here. The $35 million plan calls for two road courses, a karting track, an autocross track on 10 acres, a skidpad area and a quarter-mile drag strip. The tracks would replicate iconic elements from famous race courses such as Watkins Glen, Le Mans and the N

By Dale Jewett