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Asphalt 1.6 miles (2.6 km) 8 Greenwood Roadway: Indianola: Iowa: 1963-1966 Asphalt 3.0 miles (4.8 km) 14 Heartland Motorsports Park: Topeka: Kansas: 1989-2023 Asphalt 2.5 miles (4.0 km) 14 Hilltop Raceway: Princeton: Louisiana: 1960 Asphalt 2.2 miles (3.5 km) 11 Lakeland International Raceway: Lakeland: Tennessee: 1969 Asphalt 1.7 miles (2.7 km) 10
Bristol Motor Speedway (formerly known as the Bristol International Raceway from 1978 to 1996 and as the Bristol International Speedway from 1961 to 1978) is a 0.533-mile (0.858 km) oval short track in Bristol, Tennessee. The track has held a variety of events since its opening in 1961, including NASCAR races, NCAA FBS college football games ...
Closed after 1967; possibly hosted one racing event in 1975. Tennessee-Carolina Speedway 0.500-mile dirt oval Newport, Tennessee: 1956–1957 Closed in 1967, some traces of the track still viewable in Cocke County Fairgrounds. New track open north of town in 1969, closed for facility renovations and upgrades in 2015. Tri-City Speedway
Smoky Mountain Speedway was built in 1962 and opened during the 1965 racing season. The track was converted into an asphalt track in 1967 only to revert back to a dirt track in 1978. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On November 2, 2022, it was announced that the track would be shortened to 0.375 mi (0.604 km) in 2023.
The track has a current permanent seating capacity of 25,000, with potential to expand to 38,000 with temporary grandstands. It is one of three NASCAR tracks that features a concrete racing surface instead of the traditional asphalt; its sibling tracks in Dover, Delaware and Bristol, Tennessee, are the other two.
Dirt track racing is the single most common form of auto racing in the United States. According to the National Speedway Directory, there are over 700 dirt oval tracks in operation in the US. [1] The composition of the dirt on tracks has an effect on the amount of grip available. Many tracks use clay with a specific mixture of dirt.