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The Autobahn full track is 3.560 mi (5.729 km) in distance. The facility includes a configurable main track with a 1.460 mi (2.350 km) north track, a 2.100 mi (3.380 km) south track, a full track of 3.560 mi (5.729 km), skid pad, and a 0.52 mi (0.84 km) kart track. The full track can be split into two smaller tracks.
The track is currently owned by NASCAR, and features a 47,000-seat capacity as of 2019. During the 1990s stock car racing boom, NASCAR , the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , and Menards formed the Motorsports Alliance to find a new market to construct an intermediate oval, eventually deciding on the Chicago market.
Also on the facility is a now-defunct two-mile (3.2 km), 15-turn road course, a temporary one-mile (1.6 km) off-road track inside the dirt oval, and a 35-acre (14 ha) paved driving pad. The dirt oval was shortened to a 3/8 mile facility in 2017, since then the dirt track has seen a resurgence with top-flight series such as the World of Outlaws ...
Track Type and layout Location Map Named race(s) Season(s) Notes Albany-Saratoga Speedway: 0.400-mile dirt oval. Malta, New York: Albany-Saratoga 250 (1970–1971) 1970–1971 Track was dirt after 1978; converted back to asphalt in 2009; returned to dirt in 2012. Altamont–Schenectady Fairgrounds 0.500-mile dirt oval Altamont, New York: 1951 1955
This track, southwest of Chicago, was home to many of Chicagoland's drivers. Originally built for horses, cars took over as the main attraction in the 1920s. Later that same decade, a tornado took out the original grandstands, and the track was closed. After World War II, two new tracks were built on the site. One was a 7/16-mile oval, the ...
Red Bud MX: Buchanan, Michigan: 1973 1974 to present Hosted the 72nd running of the Motocross of Nations on October 6–7, 2018 and the 75th running of the Motocross of Nations on September 24-25, 2022. Hangtown MX Track - Prairie City SVRA Rancho Cordova, CA: 1979 1979 to present Founded by the Dirt Diggers Motorcycle club 1968. [2] Glen Helen ...
Blackhawk Farms was designed by Jerry Dunbar and built in 1967 by Tito and Marcia Nappi. The Nappis owned and operated the track until its sale in 1986 to Mike and Raymond Irwin. The track was maintained and operated by the Irwins until its sale in August 2007 to Paul Musschoot, a local businessman and longtime SCCA racer
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