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Name Location State Opened Surface Length Major Series Alabama International Dragway: Steele: Alabama: 1994: Asphalt: 1/4 mile: Alaska Raceway Park: Palmer
40% of races at the Portland International Raceway use leaded gasoline. [49] The urban location of the track, near the Portsmouth, Kenton and Piedmont neighborhoods, has raised concerns about the potential for the Raceway to contribute to lead poisoning of nearby residents and a movement to end the use of leaded fuels at the Raceway. [50]
The Charlotte Motor Speedway complex has two adjacent tracks and a drag strip near the main speedway. By July 1993, construction started on a 1 ⁄ 5 mile (0.32 km) clay short track that was made to conduct dirt legends car races. [ 24 ]
Phoenix Raceway has held numerous open-wheel racing events under various sanctioning bodies: primarily under the United States Auto Club (USAC), Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), and IndyCar. Until the mid-1980s, the facility held two annual open-wheel races a year: the Jimmy Bryan Memorial and the Bobby Ball Memorial .
Richmond Raceway (RR) is a 0.750 mi (1.207 km), D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in unincorporated Henrico County. It currently hosts one NASCAR Cup Series race weekend and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series . [ 2 ]
Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly known as the Atlanta International Raceway from 1960 to 1990) is a 1.540 mi (2.478 km) quad-oval intermediate speedway in Hampton, Georgia. The track has hosted a variety of sanctioning bodies since its inaugural season of racing in 1960, including NASCAR and IndyCar .
Altamont Raceway Park is a motorsports race track in the western United States, located in northern California, west of Tracy. It opened on July 22, 1966, and operated under the names Altamont Speedway , Altamont Raceway , Altamont Motorsports Park , Altamont Raceway Park and Arena , and Bernal Memorial Raceway .
Construction began in March 1998 on Irwindale's 6,500-seat grandstand and 1 ⁄ 2 - and 1 ⁄ 3-mile ovals.Irwindale Speedway hoped to fill the void left in the Los Angeles Basin left by the closures of the famed Riverside International Raceway, Ontario Motor Speedway and Saugus Speedway.