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The Indianapolis festival will join Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (American Flat Track) and Daytona Beach Bike Week (Daytona 200 American Sportbike Racing Association championship) as hosts of major motorcycle racing events that run with motorcycle festivals. It will mark MotoAmerica's first race at the Speedway since 2015, and the first as a stand ...
The track was known as Lucas Oil Raceway from 2011 to 2021. In 1958, 15 Indianapolis-area businessmen and racing professionals led by Tom Binford, Frank Dickie, Rodger Ward, and Howard Fieber invested $5,000 each to fund the development of a 267-acre (108 ha) farm tract into a recreational sporting complex that would focus on auto racing. The ...
It was the first NASCAR stock car race at the famous Speedway and the first race of any kind held at the track beside the Indianapolis 500 since the Harvest Classic in 1916. The race featured the largest crowd in NASCAR history, and a then NASCAR record purse of $3.2 million.
Here is the full on-track schedule: NASCAR Indianapolis on-track schedule, TV schedule for Brickyard 400. All times Central; on-track activity at Indianapolis Motor Speedway unless noted. Friday ...
With anecdotal, "unofficial" testimony placing air temperature at the track itself during the race near, at or exceeding 100 °F / 38 °C, potentially the hottest race in history, with at least one fatality, Carl Scarborough , due to heat illness
Track still active. Not used for racing from 2020 to 2022 and not used by NASCAR since 2020. Kentucky Speedway: 1.500-mile (2.414 km) paved D-shaped oval Sparta, Kentucky: Kentucky Speedway oval: Quaker State 400 Alsco 300 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225: 2001–2020 (Xfinity, Truck) 2011–2020 (Cup) Track still active. Not used for racing since 2021.
On Sunday, he'll finally get a chance to join his racing heroes. Yes, NASCAR and race officials ended their three-year attempt to rev up fans with a 200-mile road-course event by returning to the track's more revered oval and original title, Brickyard 400, for the 30th anniversary of Cup racing in Indy.
With Sullivan and Unser tentatively sitting 1st–2nd, the attention focused on Mears and if he could make it an all-Penske front row. His first lap of 220.453 mph was an all-time official track record, and he became the first driver to break the 220 mph barrier at Indy. Lap 1 – 40.825 seconds, 220.453 mph (new 1-lap track record)