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Lone Star Park is a horse racing track and entertainment destination located 1 ⁄ 2 mile north of Interstate 30 on Belt Line Road in Grand Prairie, Texas.Lone Star Park has two live racing seasons every year; the spring Thoroughbred season generally runs from early April through mid-July, and the Fall Meeting of Champions generally runs from early September through mid-November.
Beginning with the 2017 running, the race was renamed to honor Steve Sexton, a member of Lone Star Park's original management team who had died the previous year. Sexton also oversaw Churchill Downs from 2002-2009 and was the 12th president in the track's history.
The 2024 Lone Star Le Mans was an endurance sportscar racing event held on September 1, 2024, as the sixth of eight rounds of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship.It was the seventh running of the event as part of the World Endurance Championship, and the first running of the event since 2020.
The name "Lone Star Le Mans" had previously been used for the Austin round of the United SportsCar Championship, now the IMSA SportsCar Championship, from 2014 to 2016. On 2 December 2019, the Austin round of the WEC was revived for 2020, as a result of a conflict between the promoters at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace and the WEC, where the ...
The 2016 Lone Star Le Mans was the eleventh of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2016 by IMSA, and was the eighth round not held on the held as part of the North American Endurance Cup. The race was held at the twenty-turn 3.426 mi (5.514 km) Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on September 17, 2016.
Katy Sealy: 20 December 2015 London, United Kingdom Pole vault: 2.13 m Kay-De Vaughn: 23 February 2008 Ypsilanti, United States Long jump: 5.88 m A: Kaina Martinez: 19 February 2017 Lone Star Championships Alamosa, United States [23] 6.25 m Brooklyn Lyttle: 3 March 2024 PVA Youth Indoor Landover, United States [24] Triple jump: 12.11 m Kay-De ...
Lone Star Park, Grand Prairie, Texas. Acquired in October 2002 (Owns racing and operating assets) for $100 million has agreed to sell to Global Gaming, RP (owned by the Chickasaw Nation) for $27 million in September 2009 (sale has been delayed by the Delaware bankruptcy judge due to a competing bid by Penn National Gaming. [19])
Track closed in 2005 and reopened with new owners. Sales contract prohibits the holding of national or international races with more than 5000 spectators. Therefore only used for local racing series or as a test track. Raleigh Speedway: 1.000-mile (1.609 km) paved oval Raleigh, North Carolina: Raleigh 300 (1953) Raleigh 250 (1954; 1956–1958)