Built on top of Whiskey Hill, the road course of Palmer Motorsports Park is a 2.3-mile gem in the middle of a green patch of northeastern forest near Palmer, Massachusetts, 70-miles west of Boston. It has an impressive vertical gain of 190 feet that combines with the local vegetation to create several blind turns in a dynamic and technically challenging racetrack. Opened in 2015, the Whiskey Hill Raceway features 14 turns with varying degrees of banking, different length, and different radius. Several tight corners intermingled with fast sweepers and a high-speed semi-straight run stretching from turns 1 to 14 are quite a delight to ride.
Palmer Motorsports Park is home to the New England Region of Sports Car Club of America. You can drive it in either the clockwise or the counterclockwise direction, with similar average speeds near 74 mph. The continental climate type of Massachusetts means there are four distinct seasons, but the only dry season is the summer. You can expect light rain year-round and heavy snowing during winter. The track surface has a perfect camber for drivers to navigate at high speeds, being carved on the hill precisely with that intention.
Counterclockwise driving in Palmer Motorsports Park is quite demanding for vehicles, as they will need to go uphill for most of the track. Nevertheless, running downhill in the longest straightaway of the circuit compensates for the loss of speed, even producing a higher average velocity than in the CW direction, with 75 mph. Turning right instead of left and vice versa gets drivers the impression they're running an entirely different track, with natural ups and downs hiding the road on several parts.
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