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The Evans Mills Raceway Park hosts auto racing on Saturday nights throughout the summer. There are five racing divisions —Modified, Pro Late Models, INEX Legends, Sport Compact, and 6-Cylinder Stinger. [5] The facility also annually hosts the Northern Lights drive-through holiday display from Thanksgiving weekend through New Year's Day. [11]
21 SCCA: Auto Club Speedway: Fontana: California: 1997-2023 Asphalt 2.8 miles (4.5 km) 21 SCCA, ChampCar Endurance Series: Barber Motorsports Park: Birmingham: Alabama: 2003 Asphalt 2.38 miles (3.83 km) 16 SCCA, IndyCar Series, AMA, ChampCar Endurance Series: Pittsburgh International Race Complex (PittRace) formerly BeaveRun Motorsports Complex ...
Construction began in March 1998 on Irwindale's 6,500-seat grandstand and 1 ⁄ 2 - and 1 ⁄ 3-mile ovals.Irwindale Speedway hoped to fill the void left in the Los Angeles Basin left by the closures of the famed Riverside International Raceway, Ontario Motor Speedway and Saugus Speedway.
The Occoneechee Farm occupied the land in the late 19th century. The farm was named after the Occaneechi Indians that lived in the area in the late 17th century and late 18th century.
Martinsville Speedway is a stock car racing short track in Ridgeway, Virginia, just south of Martinsville.The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in stock car racing, being built in 1947 by partners H. Clay Earles, Henry Lawrence, and Sam Rice, nearly a year before NASCAR was officially formed. [2]
40% of races at the Portland International Raceway use leaded gasoline. [49] The urban location of the track, near the Portsmouth, Kenton and Piedmont neighborhoods, has raised concerns about the potential for the Raceway to contribute to lead poisoning of nearby residents and a movement to end the use of leaded fuels at the Raceway. [50]
Sonoma Raceway (originally known as Sears Point Raceway, Golden State International Raceway and Infineon Raceway) is a road course and dragstrip located at Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains of Sonoma County, California. [1] The road course features 12 turns on a hilly course with 160 ft (49 m) of total elevation change. [2]
Much of the track has intentionally been left with its original concrete runway surface. The 12 Hours of Sebring is renowned as a race that is even harder on machinery and drivers than Le Mans, and is seen as an ideal preparation run for the famed French race. The track surface has 3.04 mi (4.89 km) of asphalt and 0.7 mi (1.1 km) of concrete.