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This is a list of circuits which hosted CART/Champ Car racing from 1979 to 2007. Champ Car events were held on 54 different circuits. Phoenix International Raceway hosted the inaugural CART Series race, the 1979 Arizona Republic / Jimmy Bryan 150, and Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez held the final Champ Car race, the 2007 Gran Premio Tecate.
The track features live horse races Thursday through Sunday from early June to late July at its facility at Expo Square Pavilion in the Tulsa State Fairgrounds. While the Expo Square is known for the annual Chili Bowl Midget Nationals & Tulsa Shootout races in the Expo Center, the Fair Meadows Race Track has hosted some motorsports events as well.
Hallett Motor Racing Circuit is a road course about 35-mile (56 km) west of Tulsa in the Green Country of Oklahoma. The track has 10 turns in 1.800 mi (2.897 km), and over 80 ft (24 m) of elevation change. [2] The track can also be configured to run both clockwise and counter-clockwise, yielding two distinct race courses.
This page lists tracks and/or locations that hosted Champ Car or CART races. Pages in category "Champ Car circuits" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
American Modified Series, Late Models, Modifieds, Pro 4's, Sport Stocks, Compacts, Dwarf Cars, Detroit Iron Southside Speedway: Virginia Midlothian: 0.333 miles (0.536 km) Oval (asphalt) Late Model Sportsman, Modified, Grand Stock, U-Car, Pro Six, Legends, Street Stock, MACKA Champ Karts Speedway 95 [40] Maine Hermon: 0.333 miles (0.536 km)
The Illinois State Fair mile currently hosts the Allen Crowe Memorial 100 ARCA stock car race, USAC Silver Crown dirt cars, UMP Late Models and Modifieds and the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. The only driver who has won races in three disciplines of racing in Ken Schrader who won in ARCA cars (1998), UMP Modifieds (1998), and midgets. [2]
The Tulsa metropolitan area is the economic engine of the Green Country as well as Eastern Oklahoma. In 2017 the Tulsa metropolitan area's GDP was $57.7 billion, [18] up from 43.4 billion in 2009, nearly thirty percent of Oklahoma's economy, and the 53rd largest in the nation. [19]
The track's first national championship race was held in September 1948. In the second race on October 10, popular AAA National driving champion Ted Horn was killed in the fourth turn when a spindle on his championship car broke. The national championship race for the USAC Silver Crown dirt cars is held in his honor.