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The Chicago Motor Speedway at Sportsman's Park was a motorsports race track, located in Cicero, Illinois, just outside Chicago. It was built in 1999 by a group including Chip Ganassi, owner of Chip Ganassi Racing. In 2002 the 1.029-mile (1.656 km) oval shaped track suspended operations due to financial conditions in the motorsports industry.
Chicagoland Speedway in its current form is measured at 1.5 miles (2.4 km), with 18° of banking in the track's turns, 11° of banking on the frontstretch, and 5° of banking on the backstretch. [1] Unlike most intermediate oval tracks, the backstretch is a singular continuous curve instead of a straight line. [ 2 ]
Chicago Motor Speedway: 1.029-mile (1.656 km) paved paperclip oval Cicero, Illinois: Chicago Motor Speedway oval: Sears Craftsman 175: 2000–2001 (Truck) Track demolished in 2009, now the site of a Walmart. Chicagoland Speedway: 1.500-mile (2.414 km) paved D-shaped oval Joliet, Illinois: Chicagoland Speedway oval: Camping World 400 Chicagoland 300
Atlanta Motor Speedway: Hampton: Georgia: 1960 Redesigns in 1997 and 2021/2022 Asphalt 1.522 miles (2.449 km) 1.540 miles (2.478 km) NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Charlotte Motor Speedway (Lowes Motor Speedway) Concord
This story first appeared on NASCAR.com on March 24, 2021: Street-course racing is headed to NASCAR, at least in a virtual sense, as series officials confirmed that iRacing is developing a street ...
This track, southwest of Chicago, was home to many of Chicagoland's drivers. Originally built for horses, cars took over as the main attraction in the 1920s. Later that same decade, a tornado took out the original grandstands, and the track was closed. After World War II, two new tracks were built on the site. One was a 7/16-mile oval, the ...
Centennial Race Track; Chicago Motor Speedway; Columbia Speedway; Columbus Motor Speedway; Columbus street circuit; Continental Divide Raceways; Crown Point Road Race ...
The Indianapolis 500 is run every year at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 560-acre facility on the west side of the city. The race is scheduled for the day before Memorial Day each year, weather ...