Course Will Help Car Dealers Take Buyers for a Ride

摘要

This fall, some suburban tire-kickers will roll off car dealers' lots and onto what is believed to be the nation's first public performance track If the concept is successful, it may launch a niche for civil engineers. Since construction began in April on the one-third-mile track in Naperville, Ill., builders have struggled with an unusual road design, says Bob Kozurek, city engineering manager. Engineers, too, "had nothing to go on," says John O'Neill, project manager and civil engineering director for A. Epstein and Sons International Inc., Chicago. The city consultant hired Paxton Waters, a Car-mel, Ind.-based architect who designs racetracks, to create the layout.