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It is the third-oldest permanent automobile race track in the world, behind Brooklands and the Milwaukee Mile. With a permanent seating capacity of 257,325, [1] it is the highest-capacity sports venue in the world. [5] The track is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) rectangular oval with dimensions that have remained essentially unchanged since its ...
The following is a list of motor racing venues, ordered by capacity; i.e. the maximum number of spectators they can accommodate.Due to the length of motor racing courses, and the fact that the cars pass each point frequently, it is often not possible to see the entire track from any one seat.
The Indianapolis 500, formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, [1] [2] and commonly shortened to Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis. The event is traditionally held over Memorial Day weekend, usually the last weekend of May.
The current IndyCar sanctioning body ran a 400-mile race from 2002 to 2005 and a 500-mile race from 2012 to 2015, which was usually the season finale. Its last IndyCar race was the 2015 MAVTV 500. In 2023, the track was closed for reconstruction as part of the Next Gen California project and demolition started in October 2023.
The track was known as Lucas Oil Raceway from 2011 to 2021. In 1958, 15 Indianapolis-area businessmen and racing professionals led by Tom Binford, Frank Dickie, Rodger Ward, and Howard Fieber invested $5,000 each to fund the development of a 267-acre (108 ha) farm tract into a recreational sporting complex that would focus on auto racing. The ...
Darlington Raceway's logo. Harold Brasington was a retired racer in 1948, who had gotten to know Bill France Sr. while competing against France at the Daytona Beach Road Course and other dirt tracks in the Southeast and Midwestern United States; he quit racing in the late 1940s to concentrate on farming and his construction business. [2]
In addition, the Charlotte Motor Speedway complex features numerous adjacent tracks, including a 1 ⁄ 5 mile (0.32 km) clay short track, a 2 ⁄ 5 mile (0.64 km) dirt track, and a 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.40 km) long drag strip. The main track also features an infield road course that is used with the oval to make a "roval".
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]