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State Fairgrounds Speedway: Raleigh: North Carolina: 0.500 miles (0.805 km) black dirt 1955-1970 NASCAR Cup Series (1955, 1969-1970) Smoky Mountain Speedway: Maryville: Tennessee: 0.400 miles (0.644 km) clay 1964 NASCAR Cup Series (1965-1971) Tri-State Speedway: Haubstadt: Indiana: 0.400 miles (0.644 km) clay 1957 World of Outlaws: Volusia ...
The Calder Park Thunderdome in Melbourne, Australia, is also an example of a quad-oval speedway, though since its opening in 1987 it has generally been referred to as a tri-oval. The Rockingham Speedway is a special case because it can be interpreted as a D-oval as well as a tri-oval or quad-oval. The front line is laid out as an asymmetrical ...
A 2.1-mile (3.4-km) road course was laid out in the parking lots surrounding the oval, and used for sports car racing between 1955 and 1969. [3] [4] It hosted a SCCA National Sports Car Championship round in 1955.
Irving Taylor (October 18, 1929 – April 28, 2017) was an American Modified racing driver. Always ready to accept a spot as a substitute driver to finance his own race team, he drove for twenty-two different car owners in his career, and won 10 features for nine different owners just at Fonda Speedway NY.
Kentucky Speedway: Oval Anti-clockwise Sparta, Kentucky: 1.480 mi (2.382 km) Kentucky Grand Prix: Belterra Resort Indy 300 (2000–2001), Belterra Casino Indy 300 (2002–2004), AMBER Alert Portal Indy 300 (2005), Meijer Indy 300 (2006–2009), Kentucky Indy 300 (2010–2011) 2000–2011 12 Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Oval Anti-clockwise
It opened on March 27, 1999, under the official name Irwindale Speedway. Toyota purchased the naming rights to the facility in 2008, and from that time until 2011 it was also known as the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. [1] The speedway featured banked, paved 1 ⁄ 2 - and 1 ⁄ 3-mile oval tracks and a 1 ⁄ 8-mile drag strip.
Pulaski County Motorsports Park (formerly Pulaski County Speedway, New River Valley Speedway, then Motor Mile Speedway) is a 0.416 mi (0.669 km) paved oval racetrack in Fairlawn, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was purchased by Shelor Automotive Group in 2004 and was subsequently renamed Motor Mile Speedway.
Although the first 14 open championships were held on a dirt surface, Langhorne Speedway was paved in 1965, and the event has since been held on asphalt surfaces. The tracks hosting the event have ranged from the .375 mile Lake Erie Speedway in Erie, Pennsylvania to the 2.5 mile Pocono Raceway tri-oval. [9]