Driveway Austin Motorsports is a world-class racing facility carved in a narrow patch of woodland between the Colorado River and Walnut Creek, only six miles away from downtown Austin, Texas. The Raceway was designed and built by Bill Dollahite, a retired American professional racer who decided to combine a set of challenging corner replicas from European and American tracks to produce an exciting road course ideal for racing and high-performance racer training. Driveway Austin is open year-round, with weather conditions varying according to the season: mild winters, rainy springs, hot & dry summers, and temperate autumns.
Driveway Austin Motorsports consists of three different layouts that emphasize certain driving conditions inspired by the features of a particular road course that captivated the mind of Bill Dollahite. Loop number 1, L1, or Short Course, is a flat 0.7-mile (1.12 km/h) circuit inspired by the Fiorano road course in Italy and ideal for testing the dynamics of vehicles on flat surfaces. The Elevation Course L2 replicates some terrain characteristics of Laguna Seca, especially the Corkscrew, with exciting elevation changes and off-camber sections. Finally, the Grand Prix Course or L3 focuses on high-speed maneuvering in a landscape surrounded by high trees and stunning greeneries, feeling as they were riding through the Nurburgring in Germany.
The Fiorano L1 Course, commonly known as the Short Course, is a 0.7-mile (1.12-km) layout with seven turns called Throttle Balance, Carousel, Club House, Monaco, and Timing. This layout tends to facilitate drivers to learn how to maneuver race cars over flat surfaces. The average lap time of the short course is 0:36.9 (well under the minute), with an average speed of 68 mph (109 km/h).