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Racing in Australia is administered by the Australian Racing Board, with each state's Principal Racing Authority agreeing to abide by, and to enforce, the Australian Rules of Racing. Besides being a spectator sport, horseracing is also an industry, which provides full- or part-time employment for almost 250,000 people, the equivalent of 77,000 ...
Michigan International Speedway (formerly named as the Michigan Speedway from 1997 to 2000) is a 2.000 mi (3.219 km) D-shaped oval superspeedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. It has hosted various major auto racing series throughout its existence, including NASCAR, CART, and IndyCar races. The speedway has a capacity of 56,000 as of 2021.
1997: Ernie Irvan, two months removed from a controversial weekend and bad crash at Texas Motor Speedway, ran away for the Michigan win, his lone win of the season, final win for Robert Yates, and only career win at the track where he was gravely injured three years earlier. 1999: For the first and only time at Michigan, the race goes caution-free.
Joseph Lowthian Hudson donated the land, at Woodward Avenue and what is now 8 Mile Road, to the Michigan State Agricultural Society. [2] By 1908, the racetrack, at the east end of the fairground, had a 5,000-seat capacity grandstand. The track originally hosted Thoroughbred flat racing as well as Standardbred harness racing.
The 1992 Miller Genuine Draft 400 was the 14th stock car race of the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the 24th iteration of the event.The race was held on Sunday, June 21, 1992, before an audience of 105,000 in Brooklyn, Michigan, at Michigan International Speedway, a two-mile (3.2 km) moderate-banked D-shaped speedway.
The race at Martinsville in October will be the second-to-last race of the season and the last race of the Round of 8 in the playoffs. After being held sometime in August every year it has been on the schedule, Mid-Ohio moves earlier in the season to become the first race held after Charlotte on Memorial Day weekend, replacing Pocono.
Berlin Raceway is a 0.438 mi (0.705 km) long paved oval race track in Marne, Michigan, [1] near Grand Rapids.The track races weekly as part of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series. [2]
The inaugural running of the race was run as the Queensland Oaks Stakes during the Christmas meeting at Eagle Farm on December 27, 1951 when short odds-on favourite Malt Maid was victorious. [2] By 1953 the race was run on the Queensland Cup race card in November. [3] The race was moved as part of the Brisbane Winter Carnival in 1973. [1]