This is where you turn: and brake. And accelerate. And shift. Road course specialist Ron Fellows leads you around the very unconventional layout at Watkins Glen in preparation for Sunday's race.(NASCAR)

Ron Fellows is the King of the Road ... courses. If NASCAR is racing at Watkins Glen or Sonoma, you can bet that some savvy owner has him signed for the weekend. This year, it's Dale Earnhardt Inc. Fellows, a 43-year-old Canadian, tested last month at The Glen with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Michael Waltrip. Junior has been picking up pointers from Fellows since they were teammates in the 2001 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. "He's been very helpful," Earnhardt says. "There's nothing he has taught me in particular, but he adds a certain calmness to the package."

Let's go for a ride with Fellows around the Watkins Glen circuit:

A We go across the start-finish in third gear and then shift up to fourth. Brake for Turn 1, and then go down into second gear through the center of the corner. There's a bit of a curve at the exit of Turn 1, then up to third gear just before you go through the Esses (Turns 2, 3 and 4) and a little breathe off the throttle as you go down and uphill through the Esses. You go flat through the top, making sure that you're just to the edge of the curb, ready to brake off the curve and almost to the guardrail of the exit.

B You snatch fourth gear down the back straight about 180 miles an hour, then brake right before the inside of the 6 marker (600 feet from Tuna 5, the beginning of the right-left turn combination called the chicane) all the way down to second gear, and you get fairly aggressive with the curbing through the bus stops (turns in the chicane) and then brake around through the exit.

C You're going to brake for Turn 10 just as the pavement changes (from asphalt to concrete at the start of the corner) and then downshift to second gear from fourth. There's a little bit of curve at the entrance but no curve at the exit of 10.

D For the last turn, you come back to driver's left--and leave a little bit of margin on your left--drive in hard right across to the curb and accelerate up through the turn. You'll use a little bit of curb at the exit again, up to third gear and across the start-finish.

E Give me a brake Fellows says the most aggressive braking occurs at the chicane, which he gives a 5 on a 1-to-5 scale. Turn 1 is a 4, and Turn 10 a 2.