{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"Happy Hour: The Future of Dover’s All-Star Race & Too Many Road Courses?","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/happy-hour-the-future-of-dover-s-all-star-race-too-many-road-courses","audioUrl":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/frontstretch_pod/ins.blubrry.com/frontstretch_pod/HAPPY_HOUR_2026MAY12.mp3","description":"Jayski's Dustin Albino returns to the show"},"annotations":[{"startTime":312.6,"endTime":441.32,"type":"term","title":"road courses","url":"/glossary/road-courses","quote":"since, I don't know, 2021, 22, when road courses really became like implemented in the schedule, there's four, 56 of them.","canonicalId":"term:road-courses","priority":0.35,"confidence":0.8,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Road courses are race tracks built with a mix of left and right turns, braking zones, and elevation changes, unlike typical oval circuits. 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