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Firebird Motorsports Park (formerly Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park and Firebird International Raceway) is a 450-acre (180 ha) motorsport racing complex, located in Chandler, Arizona, United States, about 18 mi (29 km) southeast of downtown Phoenix.
The facility was originally a Volvo facility (VAPG) but was transitioned to the Ford branding in the summer of 2009 and renamed the Arizona Proving Ground (APG). Volvo still is a large user of it. It features a 2-mile oval track with banked curves, a 2-mile completely straight road, a brake test area and some more tracks.
The Lang Lang Proving Ground is a vehicle testing facility located at Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia, approximately 90 kilometers (56 mi) south-east of Melbourne. [3] It was opened in 1957 by Holden on a 2,152 acres (871 ha) site off the Bass Highway. [4] It was used to test every Holden model from the Holden FC onwards.
The Arizona Proving Ground is a vehicle test facility established in 1955 in Yucca, Arizona. It was owned and operated by Ford Motor Company based in Dearborn, Michigan , until Chrysler LLC announced on November 2, 2007 that it had purchased the facility for $34.9 million.
The listing was given as Camp Iron Mountain is the best preserved of the Desert Training Center Camps. The Bureau of Land Management put up fences to protect the camp from Off-road vehicle traffic. Still at the camp today are a 200 x 175 foot contour training map, some rock mosaics, two church altars, rock lined roads and walkways.
The vehicle remained unused for a time, and was then put up for sale for $1.4 million in 1969. [9] All that remains of the Mark II is the control cab which remains at Yuma Proving Ground Heritage Center, [10] the rest was sold off to a local scrap dealer. The Mark II retains the record for the longest offroad vehicle in the world. [8] [11]
The Center Square reported in November that Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity projects 486,348 jobs, many in health care and construction, will be added to the state in the next decade.
A trophy truck in a desert race (2006). Desert racing is the act of racing through the desert in a two- or four-wheeled off-road vehicle. Races, which generally consist of two or more loops around a course covering up to 4,660 miles (7,500 km), can take the form of Hare and Hound or Hare scramble style events, and are often laid out over a long and harsh track through relatively barren terrain.