After its re-opening, the AMA Superbike Championship held races at VIR from 2001 until 2010 on the North Course. The IMSA GT Championship visited VIR in 19. The track hosted the SCCA National Sports Car Championship from its opening in 1957 until the series' demise in 1964. The most recent death was that of 14-year-old Toriano Wilson in a US Rookie Cup motorcycle race in August 2008. There have been at least four deaths in track history, with three fatalities coming since the reopening of the facility. VIR's membership model has since been followed by other racetracks across the United States. Each member of the VIR Club receives track time on member days, tickets to all spectator events, and other benefits. The track was reopened in 2000 by New Yorker Harvey Siegel and Connie Nyholm using a "country club" model. The track had been closed from 1974 prior to its reopening in March 2000. The track originally opened August 3, 1957, and was created by a group of men using a bulldozer. History Pit road during 2008 Grand-Am race VIR hosts amateur and professional automobile and motorcycle events, driving schools, club days, and private test rentals. It is less than a half-mile from the North Carolina/ Virginia border just outside Milton, North Carolina, on the banks of the Dan River.
Virginia International Raceway ( VIR) is a race track located in Alton, Virginia, near Danville.