The Center of Excellence

When people think about a major motorsports facility, they naturally think about race weekends: cars, motorcycles, crowds, race teams, and the spectacle and pageantry.

One of the things I care most about building will matter just as much on an ordinary Tuesday morning - The Center of Excellence at Charlotte International Circuit.

The idea begins with a simple belief: A world-class motorsports destination shouldn’t only host races, it should help cultivate the sport and the industry. Motorsports is an extraordinary concentration of talent, but the pathways into it aren’t always obvious. A young driver may have talent that needs cultivated through instruction and seat time. A student may love racing without realizing that their aptitude for engineering, data, fabrication, logistics, communications, hospitality, or dozens of other disciplines could become a career within the sport. A working professional may have decades of knowledge that shouldn’t disappear when they retire.

Those aren’t separate opportunities - they’re parts of the same ecosystem.