Bringing the Touge Home: Drift Appalachia Lands on Assetto Corsa
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For three years, the legend of Drift Appalachia has been built on the narrow, unforgiving "Special Stages" of West Virginia and Kentucky. It’s the American answer to Japan’s legendary touge, a place where guardrails might be the only thing keeping a vehicle on the tarmac. Until now, experiencing these roads required an invitation, a high-spec drift car, and a healthy dose of fearlessness. But that changed this past December. Drift Appalachia has officially released its first purpose-built digital course: DA Touge Special Stage: Sim WV.
This isn't just a generic mountain road mod as has been done in the past. Developed in collaboration with Geronimo Designs and ACS Drift, the track is a "millimeter-accurate" recreation of a West Virginia mountain pass. The team utilized high-fidelity data to ensure that every dip in the asphalt, every camber change, and every patch of varying grip feels exactly like the real thing.
Drift Appalachia has always focused on "legal touge" by closing down public mountain roads for their sanctioned events. By bringing this to Assetto Corsa, they are allowing the sim racing community to train on the same layouts used by pros like Ryan Tuerck, Ben Hobson, Chelsea Denofa and more.
"Precision matters as much as style here. This course blends tight mountain switchbacks and intense elevation changes that demand absolute car control." — Drift Appalachia Team
Whether you are a seasoned sim-drifter or a fan who has watched the Stage events from the sidelines, this release is a milestone. It’s a chance to see if you have what it takes to "carve lines through the mountains" without the risk of a literal cliff-side excursion.
The track is currently available as a digital product through the official Drift Appalachia website.
