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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.
Up until 1744, the two most valuable races run at the course were the King's Plate and the Town Plate. Two more Plate races were added in that year, paid for by local traders, both worth 50 guineas – one was a race for five-year-olds carrying 9 stone, one was an open age race in four mile heats. Another paid for by landowners was a four-year ...
On May 15, 1864, New Market was the site of the Battle of New Market. Students from the Virginia Military Institute fought alongside the Confederate Army and forced Union General Franz Sigel and his army out of the Shenandoah Valley. Every year VMI cadets commemorate the 85-mile march from Lexington to New Market made by the cadets in 1864, who ...
Virginia Motor Speedway is a 1 ⁄ 2-mile (0.80 km) semi-banked dirt oval raceway located in Jamaica, Virginia. VMS features a clay racing surface with 14 degree banking in both corners and 4 degrees on the front and back stretch. Races are held on Saturday. Regular events include Steel Block Late Models, Modifieds, Sportsman, and Limited Stock.
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)
Pit road during 2008 Grand-Am race. The track originally opened August 3, 1957, and was created by a group of men using a bulldozer. The track had been closed from 1974 prior to its reopening in March 2000. [1] The track was reopened in 2000 by New Yorker Harvey Siegel and Connie Nyholm using a "country club" model. Memberships to the track are ...
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Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) is a 1/4 mile (0.402 km) dragstrip in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, just outside of Petersburg. [1] It opened in 1994 and originally hosted the NHRA's Virginia NHRA Nationals. It has a seating capacity of 23,000 spectators. After a brief time with IHRA beginning in 2010, the track returned to NHRA in 2012.