| Nascar Tracks Information |
| Atlanta Motor
Speedway |
| Since being
purchased by Bruton Smith in 1990, Atlanta
Motor Speedway has become an ultra-modern,
multi-purpose venue that has raised the bar
of excellence. Amenities include a nine-story
office/condominium complex, improved parking,
over 53,000 additional permanent seats, a
road course, a four-color electronic message
center, a new ticket office and gift shop. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 24 degrees
Distance: 1.54 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Big Daddy's
South Boston Speedway |
| Big Daddy's
South Boston Speedway, located in southern
Virginia, was enlarged from .357 to .4 miles
before the 1994 season. After hosting 35 NASCAR
Busch Series events since 1982, the NASCAR
Craftsman Truck Series took to Big Daddy's
South Boston Speedway track for the first
time in 2001. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 12 degrees
Distance: 0.4 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Bristol Motor
Speedway |
| Bristol, one
of the shortest tracks on the Winston Cup
circuit, has the highest banking, making for
an appealing combination for driver and spectator
alike. Added to the schedule in 1961 and resurfaced
from asphalt to concrete in 1992, Bristol's
attendance has increased from 18,000 to well
over 160,000 with the reconstruction of the
speedway's backstretch. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 36 degrees
Distance: 0.533 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| California
Speedway |
| Situated on
the site of the former Kaiser Steel mill approximately
40 miles east of Los Angeles, California Speedway
is a great place to watch a race and experience
the thrills of NASCAR. It is one of the premier
auto racing venues in the country, hosting
six major racing weekends, which includes
the largest attended sporting event in the
state. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 14 degrees
Distance: 2.0 miles
Shape: D-shaped oval |
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| Chicagoland
Speedway |
| Chicagoland
Speedway, which held Winston Cup and Busch
Series events for the first time in 2001,
includes grandstand seating for 75,000 spectators,
37 luxury suites, on-site parking and camping
areas and reserved long-term parking areas
for recreational vehicles in the infield adjacent
to the second and third turns. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 18 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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|
Darlington
Raceway |
| Every driver
who has strapped on a helmet and climbed behind
the steering wheel has wanted to win at Darlington
because the toughest is most desirable. For
those few select drivers who have won races
at the granddaddy of superspeedways, there
is a priceless satisfaction in knowing they've
conquered the unique egg-shaped oval nicknamed
"Too Tough To Tame." |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 25/23 degrees
Distance: 1.366 miles
Shape: Oval |
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|
Daytona International
Speedway |
| Since 1959,
Daytona International Speedway has hosted
the Daytona 500, now the culmination of a
two-week festival of speed known as Speedweeks.
In early July, the track hosts the night-time
running of the Pepsi 400. In addition to Busch
Series and Craftsman Truck events, the track
also hosts the sports-car Rolex 24 at Daytona,
and motorcycle and karting events. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 31 degrees
Distance: 2.5 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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| Dover International
Speedway |
| With a brand
of racing that is as intimate as it is intense,
there's no wonder why people continue to flock
to "The Monster Mile." Dover, with
seating for more than 140,000, is one of the
most popular race destinations in the Northeast
and hosts some of the biggest crowds to see
a sporting event between New York and North
Carolina. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 24 degrees
Distance: 1.0 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Gateway International
Raceway |
| Auto racing
has a rich history in the St. Louis area,
and the area has produced some of NASCAR's
brightest stars. Gateway is equipped to host
almost any form of major league motorsports
on its egg-shapped oval with two unique sets
of turns, a 1.6-mile road course and a quarter-mile
drag strip. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 11|9 degrees
Distance: 1.25 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Homestead Miami
Speedway |
| NASCAR racing
made its debut in the Miami area in 1995,
drawing a sellout crowd of 60,000 to its first
event. The track has a $100 million annual
impact on the local economy and draws more
than 300,000 racing enthusiasts annually to
the area. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 20 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Indianapolis
Motor Speedway |
| Built originally
as a test facility for the burgeoning Indiana
car industry, the track was paved with 3.2
million bricks following a series of races
in 1909. Since 1911, the Brickyard has hosted
one of the most famous races in the world
-- the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. In the
inaugural 1994 Brickyard 400, Hoosier fan
favorite Jeff Gordon won the first of his
three titles. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 9 degrees
Distance: 2.5 miles
Shape: Oval |
|
| Indianapolis
Raceway Park |
| This historic
racing facility had its beginnings as a dream
on the part of 15 racing professionals and
area businessmen. It is now the site of three
world-famous race courses -- a 4,400-foot
drag strip, a .686-mile oval and a 15-turn,
2.5-mile road course. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 12 degrees
Distance: 0.686 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Infineon Raceway
|
| Infineon Raceway
is one of the premier road racing venues in
the country, and one of the few on the NASCAR
Winston Cup Series circuit. The facility first
opened in 1968 and serves as the gateway to
the beautiful and scenic Sonoma Valley, which
serves as one of the top wine-producing regions
in the world. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: --
Distance: 2.0 miles
Shape: Road course |
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| Kansas Speedway
|
| Kansas Speedway
boasts great views from every seat and easy
access in and out of the 1 1/2-mile, state-of-the-art
facility, a response to growing interest for
motorsports entertainment in the Midwest.
Though the tri-oval track design is not unique
to Kansas Speedway, a slight difference in
the banking makes this track unique. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 15 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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| Kentucky Speedway
|
| Co-owned by
Jerry Carroll and developed on 1,000 acres,
the $152 million Kentucky Speedway is a state-of-the-art
venue for all stock and open wheel racing
series. The speedway features a 1.5-mile tri-oval,
quarter-mile paved track and parking for more
than 30,000 cars and 2,000 RVs. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 14 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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| Las Vegas Motor
Speedway |
| Las Vegas
Motor Speedway has the distinction of being
the first completely new superspeedway to
be built in the southwest region of the United
States in more than 20 years. The track features
a 1.5-mile superspeedway, a 2.5-mile FIA-approved
road course, a 4,000-foot drag strip, paved
and dirt short tracks, motocross circuits,
stadium truck racing facilities, go-kart and
Legends cars layouts as well as a Junior Drag
racing strip. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 12 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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| Lowe's Motor
Speedway |
| Built more
than four decades ago, the largest sports
facility in the Southeast has 167,000 permanent
seats, including 121 executive suites, and
capacity for nearly 50,000 more spectators
in the infield area. Lowe's Motor Speedway
was the first superspeedway to host night
racing in 1992 and was the first sports facility
in America to offer year-round living accommodations
when it released 40 condominiums for sale
high above Turn One in 1984. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 24 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Quad-oval |
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| Martinsville
Speedway |
| The paperclip-shaped
short track known as Martinsville opened in
1947, two years before NASCAR was founded.
Under the direction of H. Clay Earles, who
ran the speedway until his death in 1999,
Martinsville grew from a dusty, rough-hewn
operation into one of the most beautiful and
modern racing facilities around. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 12 degrees
Distance: 0.526 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Memphis Motorsports
Park |
| In 1986, Memphis
Motorsports Park started out as a multi-track
facility run by a group of investors headed
by Ed Gatlin. Ten years later, the Grand Prix
Association of Long Beach, one of the major
players in American motorsports, bought Memphis
Motorsports Park from Gatlin's group. Now
they have reached out to Mid-America in a
big way. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 11 degrees
Distance: 0.75 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Michigan International
Speedway |
| Michigan International
Speedway is recognized as one of motorsports'
premier facilities because of its wide racing
surface and high banking. These two factors
make three- and four-abreast racing as routine
as the checkered flag at the end of a race. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 18 degrees
Distance: 2.0 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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| The Milwaukee
Mile |
| Since the
1870s, there has been racing on what is now
known as the Milwaukee Mile. Located on land
that was originally a horse farm, the track
was used for training and racing thoroughbreds.
In 1891, the farm was purchased by the Wisconsin
Agricultural Society to create a permanent
site for the State Fair. The first auto race
was held in 1903 and the oval was paved in
1954. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 9.25 degrees
Distance: 1.0 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Nashville Superspeedway
|
| Nashville
Superspeedway, built in 2000, is one of only
three concrete tracks on the NASCAR circuit.
The pavement, consisting of 7,500 cubic yards
of concrete, was placed full-width for the
entire length of the track by a concrete paving
machine that was specially constructed for
this project. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 14 degrees
Distance: 1.333 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Nazareth Speedway
|
| The modern
day Nazareth Speedway was originally Nazareth
National Speedway, a semi-banked, dirt, D-shaped
1-1|8 mile oval built in 1966. The track lay
dormant for nearly a decade starting in 1971,
then hosted special events only before going
into backruptcy. Penske Speedway, Inc. purchased
the 90-acre facility in 1986 and immediately
began an extensive renovation project which
included paving the track. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 3|4|6 degrees
Distance: 1.0 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| New Hampshire
International Speedway |
| The two NASCAR
Winston Cup Series races at New Hampshire
International Speedway are largest spectator
sporting events in New England with 101,000
guests in attendance at each race. NHIS is
located one hour from Boston, two hours from
Portland, Maine, and Providence, R.I., and
is easily accessible from Vermont and Canada. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 12 degrees
Distance: 1.058 miles
Shape: Oval |
|
| North Caroline
Speedway |
| A joint venture
between Darlington Raceway builder Harold
Brasington and landowner Bill Land, North
Carolina Speedway's first race was held in
1965. Over time, the track came under control
of L.G. DeWitt, a local trucking company executive
who supervised reshaping the original flat
mile track into the present, banked 1.017-mile
oval in 1969. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 22|25 degrees
Distance: 1.017 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Phoenix International
Raceway |
| Set at the
base of the Estrella Mountains, near the Salt
and Gila Rivers, PIR is as much a fixture
of the local landscape as its natural counterparts.
PIR first opened its gates in 1964 and since
that time has earned a reputation as one of
the top facilities of its kind in the nation. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 11|9 degrees
Distance: 1.0 miles
Shape: Oval |
|
| Pikes Peak
International Raceway |
| Pikes Peak
International Raceway consists of a 1-mile
D-shaped oval and a 1.3-mile road course with
grandstand seating for over 42,000 fans. The
lowest row of grandstand seating is elevated
16 feet above ground level, providing a complete
view of the track from nearly every seat. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 10 degrees
Distance: 1.0 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Pocono Raceway
|
| Pocono's unique
2.5-mile tri-oval features three turns, each
with a different degree of banking, and three
straights, each with a different length. This
combination produces fender-to-fender action
in the turns, 200 mph slingshots on the long
straights and photo-finish endings. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 14|8|6 degrees
Distance: 2.5 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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|
Richmond International
Raceway |
| The present
facility was built on the site of a half-mile
track that first hosted dirt auto races in
the 1940s. The original track was paved in
1968. RIR was redesigned in 1988 between the
spring and fall races. Recent renovations
have made it one of the most modern speedways
on the tour. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 14 degrees
Distance: 0.75 miles
Shape: Oval |
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| Talladega Superspeedway |
| Talladega
Superspeedway is the biggest, fastest, most
competitive motorsports facility in the world.
Records for both speed and competition have
been established at Talladega. Built at a
cost of more than $4 million, the track opened
as Alabama International Motor Speedway in
1969. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 33 degrees
Distance: 2.66 miles
Shape: Tri-oval |
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| Texas Motor
Speedway |
| Texas Motor
Speedway is a motorsports haven along the
historic Chisholm Trail in Fort Worth. It
features seating for 150,061 fans. It represents
the pinnacle in luxury for fans of auto racing,
as the facility features 194 skybox VIP suites. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: 24 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Quad-oval |
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| Watkins Glen
International |
| Watkins Glen
International continues a road-racing tradition
that dates back to 1948 -- when sports cars
competed on the streets of the village at
the southern tip of scenic Lake Seneca. The
circuit, which at one time hosted the F1 United
States Grand Prix, has grown to become one
of the most respected facilities in the northeast. |
Track
Facts
Banking/Turns: --
Distance: 2.45 miles
Shape: Road course |
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