ATTESA NEWS
Attesa Breaks Ground on New Podium Club Road Racing Circuit
The 496-acre Motorplex and Membership Club Will be Home to the Southwest’s Only Automobile and Motorcycle Track Designed to FIA/FIM Safety Specs Attesa, the multi-use, advanced transportation technology development near the City of Casa Grande, Arizona, broke...
Steel Track Barriers Not Good Enough for Member Safety at Attesa
This past weekend's F1 accident again showed how dangerous steel barriers can be. That's why we're not using them. Even though other local tracks are. This past Sunday, in front of a live, international TV audience, French driver Romain Grosjean crashed almost head on...
We’re Planning Our Ground Breaking Ceremony. Finally.
Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to share some important news with you. Engineers and survey crews are out placing stakes in the ground at Attesa. Plans submitted to the county will soon be public and (hopefully) approved. We are finally about to build the...
The only safe way to hold races right now is virtually. Maybe that’s our stopgap until things get back to normal.
No one knows more about waiting than we do. For a variety of reasons, we’re still on hold in being able to break ground for our new FIA-rated road racing circuit at Attesa, near Casa Grande, Arizona. We’re still race fans though and feel the loss of watching our...
IMSA and ACO Reveal Bold New Plan for Common Prototype Sports Car Racing Rules
The 2020 racing season has officially started with last weekend’s running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. A Cadillac DPi won the twice-around-the-clock race, but the event’s big news takeaway was a surprising and extremely welcome announcement made the Thursday...
Danrick Builders Submits Final Attesa Race Circuit Plans to Pinal County; Construction to Commence Spring 2020
Arizona International Raceway (AIR) @ Attesa will be Arizona’s only permanently zoned, professional motorcycle and automobile road racing facility Danrick Builders has announced the design of its primary international road race circuit has been finalized and site...
Rain-delayed IndyCar race was all the better for it. There’s a lesson there.
Races are major sports/entertainment events that deserve being televised at their very best. TV start times need to take a back seat once in a while to make sure they get the chance. Last Saturday night’s short track IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway was...
Swapping: A great way to improve long-term relationships.
This piece was inspired by the news that a friend’s garage just welcomed another tenant. It’s a 1995 BMW E36 M3 with a 550 hp LS3 383 c.i.d. stroker where the original straight six used to be. It was built for racing. The car is impressively...
Form follows function. Behold the standard automobile platform of the future.
The king is dead. Long live the king. The basic chassis and propulsion system design that has served the car industry since its inception is about to go the way of all things. Less polluting electric vehicles are expected to become the norm going forward...
Wish list: Some of the high-performance vehicles I want to see first at Attesa.
For those who haven’t been keeping score, Danrick Builders has announced that the first project at Attesa is going to be the membership or club circuit. We hope to break ground this fall, complete construction without compromise and be open for business as...