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Colorado National Speedway is a paved oval in Dacono, Colorado, spanning 0.375 mi (0.604 km).The track is currently a member of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series and hosts the ARCA Menards Series West (former NASCAR K&N Pro Series West), the King of the Wing Sprint Car Series, and the North American Big Rig Racing Series annually.
Dirt track racing is the single most common form of auto racing in the United States. According to the National Speedway Directory, there are over 700 dirt oval tracks in operation in the US. [1] The composition of the dirt on tracks has an effect on the amount of grip available. Many tracks use clay with a specific mixture of dirt.
On the Pike's Peak Ocean-to-Occan Highway [7] west of the city was the end of the 1951 Colorado sports car rally (terminus at the Crystola Inn), [8] a 1953 dirt dragstrip "some four miles east of Colorado Springs" was used for "the first statewide drag race", [9] and a stock car track was along Powers Road in the early 1960s.
This list contains all known paved oval tracks larger than or equal to 1 mile (1.6 km) but shorter than 2 miles (3.2 km). ... Oval: Open-Wheen Modifieds, Limited ...
0.400-mile dirt oval Norfolk, Virginia: 1956–1957 Closed sometime after 1959. State Fairgrounds Speedway: 0.500-mile dirt oval Raleigh, North Carolina: North State 200 (1969) Home State 200 (1970) 1955 1969–1970 Track closed after 1970. Oglethorpe Speedway Park 0.500-mile dirt oval Pooler, Georgia: 1954–1955 Track closed after 2021. [18 ...
Oval track racing is a form of motorsport that is contested on an oval-shaped race track. An oval track differs from a road course in that the layout resembles an oval with turns in only one direction, and the direction of traffic is almost universally counter-clockwise. Oval tracks are dedicated motorsport circuits, used predominantly in the ...
An oval is an oval-shaped racing facility. A road course is a permanent motor racetrack, too, but features both left and right turns. A street circuit is composed of temporarily closed-off public roads or airport runways. A combined road course is a racing facility that features a road course that is linked to the oval track.
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