Road course ringer, also known as Road course specialist, Road course expert, or Road runner, is a non-NASCAR driver who is hired by a NASCAR team to race, specifically on road courses.
Current NASCAR national-level road courses include Sonoma, Watkins Glen, Road America, and Mid-Ohio. Former road courses include Riverside, Mexico City, and Montreal.
NASCAR describes road course ringers as "drivers who specialize in turning both left and right," and says that "perhaps the greatest road-course ringer in NASCAR history might be Dan Gurney" after he won four straight NASCAR races at Riverside. He lapped the field at the 1964 event.
Read more about Road Course Ringer: Term Origin, Drivers, Notable Road Course Ringers, Wins, Decline in The Cup Series, Further Reading
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“Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.”
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