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The track's 180-acre (73 ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12 ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The track was built in 1959 by NASCAR founder William "Bill" France Sr. to host racing that was held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course. His banked design permitted higher speeds and gave fans a better view of the cars.
Velodrome. Banking in the turns, called cant, allows riders to keep their bikes relatively perpendicular to the surface while riding at speed.When travelling through the turns at racing speed, which may exceed 85 km/h (52.8 mph), the banking attempts to match the natural lean of a bicycle moving through that curve.
Construction of the track started in March 1909. Fisher had to quickly downsize his planned 3-mile (5 km) oval with a 2-mile (3 km) road course to a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) oval to leave room for the grandstands. Reshaping of the land for the speedway took 500 laborers, 300 mules and a fleet of steam-powered machinery.
Circuit of the Americas (COTA) is a Grade 1 [2] FIA-specification 3.426-mile (5.514 km) motor racing track and facilities located in Austin, Texas, United States. The facility is home to the Formula One United States Grand Prix , NASCAR Texas Grand Prix , and the Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas , [ 3 ] a round in MotoGP and the FIA World ...
At 250 km/h the tracks have a centre-to-centre distance of 4.5 m (15 ft) (while the first tracks in the 1980s were built with a distance of 4.7 m (15 ft)). The TGV track construction puts both rail tracks into a common concrete block, so they can disregard a safety margin for track displacement. This allows high-speed rail to have a centre-to ...
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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] On August 10, 1999, then-general manager Humpy Wheeler announced a new 3 ⁄ 8 mile (0.60 km) dirt track that was to be constructed across the main speedway. [ 25 ]
A points system for rank in the race and another point system for points based on the length of the race and the distance covered by the driver. For Example: The winner of the Daytona 500 in 1972 received a total of 350 points, 100 points for first place and an additional 250 points (1.25 points per lap * 200 laps) for race distance completed.