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The first Championship/Indy car races in the Dallas/Fort Worth area took place at Arlington Downs Raceway in nearby Arlington, Texas. AAA sanctioned five races from 1947 to 1950. USAC sanctioned ten Championship car events at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas. The race was discontinued when the track closed in 1981.
Stock car races in the NASCAR Cup Series have been held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas since 1997. The 400-mile (640 km) event, currently known as Würth 400 for sponsorship reasons, has been held sometime in October or November each year, except for 2024 when it was held in April, where the track's original spring race (held from 1997 to 2020) was traditionally held.
In Dallas–Fort Worth, the duo met businessman Ross Perot Jr. and flew in Perot's helicopter to scout a piece of land that was owned by Perot. The land impressed the duo, [ 38 ] and by November 30, the Star-Telegram reported that the two were planning to build a 150,000-capacity speedway at a cost of around $75,000,000 (adjusted for inflation ...
The first Indy car events in the Dallas/Fort Worth area were held at Arlington Downs from 1947 through 1950 under AAA sanction. [ 1 ] From 1997 through 2023, Speedway Motorsports -owned Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth hosted events under IndyCar sanction.
Dallas-Fort Worth’s population has passed 8 million people, with Fort Worth gaining more new residents than any other city in the United States between 2021 and 2022.
Green Valley Raceway was a motorsports race track located in Smithfield, Texas, and was part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.Designed and built by Bill McClure on his North Texas dairy farm, the facility opened in 1960, and was used for over 20 years until its closure in 1986.
Dallas-Fort Worth added 644,000 people between 2018 and 2023, according to census data. Texas has 2.15 million more registered voters than it did in the 2018 general election. And the region’s ...
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