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Speedway Children's Charities was founded by Bruton Smith, [3] Chairman of Speedway Motorsports (SMI) [4] and Sonic Automotive, [5] after his son, Bruton Cameron Smith, died at a very young age. SCC became a national organization in 1982, and now includes a network of eight chapters based at each of the eight SMI facilities across the United ...
In May 1998, the speedway opened Lil' Texas Motor Speedway, a 1 ⁄ 5 mile (0.32 km) paved short track that hosts various divisions of local short track racing, primarily legends cars and bandoleros. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] In August 1999, Gossage announced plans of a new 2 ⁄ 5 mile (0.64 km) dirt track to the main track's east that could seat 13,007 ...
Although he added excluding COTA as a potential NASCAR host track would be an "injustice", Stewart also argued the "worst thing [NASCAR] could ever do is take one of the races from Texas Motor Speedway." [5] Aerial view of COTA. On September 30, 2020, NASCAR revealed the 2021 Cup Series schedule with a COTA race planned for May 23. [10]
The 2008 Dickies 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series motor race held on November 2, 2008, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Contested over 334 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) asphalt quad-oval, it was the 34th race of the 2008 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Carl Edwards for the Roush Fenway Racing team.
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The 10 playoff tracks are the same (including Sept. 24 at Texas Motor Speedway), the exhibition Clash will return to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Daytona 500 will open the season Feb. 19.
Eddie married his second wife, Melinda Marie Cobb, on March 27, 1999, at the Speedway Club at the Texas Motor Speedway. [117] Before the marriage, Melinda had been Eddie's former secretary at the speedway. [3] Gossage had two children, both born while he was married to Williams. His first child, Jessica Amber, was born on December 18, 1980. [118]
The race was created as a result of the Ferko lawsuit, which took out the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, along with the Subway 400 at North Carolina Speedway. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The race featured six cautions, which at the time was the fewest at Texas Motor Speedway in a Nextel Cup race, and the 151.005 miles per hour (243.019 km/h) average speed ...