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Website. eddiegossage.com. William Edgar Gossage (October 15, 1958 – May 16, 2024) was an American motorsports executive and promoter. He was best known as the president of the Texas Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) banked racetrack in Fort Worth, Texas, which ran stock car racing and Indy car racing events throughout his tenure.
Texas Motor Speedway (formerly known as Texas International Raceway from September to December 1996) is a 1.500-mile (2.414 km) quad-oval intermediate speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. It has hosted various major races since its inaugural season of racing in 1997, including NASCAR and IndyCar races. The track is owned by the city of Fort Worth's ...
IndyCar Series at Texas Motor Speedway. The IndyCar Series held auto racing events at Texas Motor Speedway, near Fort Worth, Texas, from 1997 until 2023. The races had a variety of different title sponsors and distances over the years, and therefore the Texas round has changed names frequently. The latest event, held in 2023, was called the PPG ...
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Eddie Gossage, the longtime head of Texas Motor Speedway and an old-school promoter mentored by stock car racing's pioneers, has died, Speedway Motorsports announced ...
July 8, 1939: At Trading Day in Weatherford, Texas. G.A. Holland (right), Weatherford banker and former mayor, inspects Hart cling peaches being sold by J.A. Melton, who owns an orchard 11 miles ...
The Texas Motor Speedway will host to the NASCAR Cup Series as they race in the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 this weekend. . Last year’s winner William Byron, will look to become the first ...
The 2016 Firestone 600 was the 14th round of the 2016 IndyCar Series season, contested over 248 laps at the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.The race was originally scheduled as the ninth round of the series and originally began on June 12, 2016, following an extended series of delays caused by rain.
IndyCar racing is not new to North Texas. For 26 years, Texas Motor Speedway hosted races at its Fort Worth track. IndyCar had raced at the Fort Worth oval every year since the series debut in the ...