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Bristol Motor Speedway Dover Motor Speedway. This is a list of tracks which have hosted a NASCAR race from 1948 to present. Various forms of race track have been used throughout the history of NASCAR, including purpose-built race tracks such as Daytona International Speedway and temporary tracks such as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
International Speedway Corporation (ISC) was a corporation whose primary business was the ownership and management of motorsports race tracks.ISC was founded by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. in 1953 for the construction of Daytona International Speedway and in 1999 it merged with Penske Motorsports to become one of the largest motorsports companies in North America.
Until 1999, Speedway Motorsports was the top track owner in the motorsports industry. That year, International Speedway Corporation, then the second largest track owner, acquired Penske Motorsports, then the third largest track owner. The $623 million deal propelled ISC to the top track owner, and SMI fell to second.
Smith began promoting stock-car events as a 17-year-old in Midland, North Carolina, in the middle of a cornfield he nicknamed the "Dust Bowl". [2] In 1949, Smith took over the National Stock Car Racing Association (NSCRA), a league that had formed a year earlier in 1948 and was one of several fledgling stock-car sanctioning bodies that were direct competitors to NASCAR, which had been founded ...
The next year, Smith announced that the fall NASCAR race weekend for the Charlotte Motor Speedway would be run on a specialized "roval" course that utilized both the traditional oval and the track's infield road course instead of running on the traditional oval, breaking an annual tradition that started in 1960.
Night racing at the 2008 Bank of America 500; in 1992, the track installed lights to accommodate night racing, the first track of its size to do so. In 1987, construction began on a membership-exclusive club and restaurant named The Speedway Club. [23] By the end of the 1980s, CMS had a maximum capacity of 170,922. [14]
Martinsville Speedway is a stock car racing short track in Ridgeway, Virginia, just south of Martinsville.The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in stock car racing, being built in 1947 by partners H. Clay Earles, Henry Lawrence, and Sam Rice, nearly a year before NASCAR was officially formed. [2]
The facility hosts an annual NASCAR weekend featuring the NASCAR Cup Series' Iowa Corn 350 and the NASCAR Xfinity Series' Hy-Vee PERKS 250. [76] From 2009 to 2019, the track also hosted the Xfinity Series and Craftsman Truck Series events. [77] [78] From 2012 to 2013, the track hosted a second Truck Series race with the Fan Appreciation 200. [79]