WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
1021 Highway 68, Salinas, (831) 242‑8201, weathertechraceway.com
John Steinbeck got in the car game early with the Model T (as he memorably recounted in his 1954 piece “Jalopies I Cursed and Loved”), and later ventured into Chevrolets, Marmons, Packards – even Jaguars. Steinbeck understood the significant place that cars hold in the American imagination, as evident in both his fiction and his travel essays. We’re pretty certain he didn’t race. But we believe he would have admired Laguna Seca’s place in racing lore – an internationally renowned road circuit revered by drivers and fans the world over, featuring dizzying elevation changes and iconic, one‑of‑a‑kind turns like the Corkscrew. And during the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, you can see cars on the track that would have been familiar to Steinbeck.