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Figure 8 World Championship Racing .60 miles (0.97 km) Flat cross Little Valley Speedway: Little Valley: New York: 1932–2011(figure 8 track) Clay .28 miles (0.45 km) Flat cross Manzanita Speedway: Phoenix: Arizona: 1951–2010 Asphalt .70 miles (1.13 km) Bridge cross Riverhead Raceway: Riverhead: New York: 1951 Asphalt Figure 8 World ...
The Chicago Street Course is a 2.140 mi (3.444 km) street circuit in Grant Park in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It currently hosts the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series , with the first races run on July 1–2, 2023.
Several races, sanctioned by NASCAR were held on this race track between 1956 and 1959. However, only one race (held on July 21, 1956) counted towards the championship. Stadium remains active as home to the NFL's Chicago Bears; track was removed in 1970. Stamford Park 0.500-mile dirt oval Ontario (Niagara Falls) 1952 Closed during 1953.
This is a list of racetracks which have hosted IndyCar Series racing. Since 1996, INDYCAR events have been held on 45 different tracks – 24 ovals, 10 road courses, 10 street circuits, and 1 combined road course. – spread across five countries: the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, [note 1] and Brazil.
Soldier Field was the site of numerous races. A 1/4 mile board track was built, and the first two midget car races at the track in 1939 were won by Sam Hanks. The track was also used for motorcycle races. The board track was removed and it was changed to a half-mile dirt oval track. In 1956, NASCAR swung through for its only race at Soldier Field.
The track never committed to making a series of safety improvements requested by the various sanctioning bodies, and this, together with competition by nearby Road America, eventually led to the track's demise. The last major auto racing event, an SCCA Trans-Am Series race, held July 7 and July 8, 1968 as a last-ditch effort to save the track ...
United States: Full 2.448 km (1.521 mi) Long Beach Street Circuit: Long Beach United States: Grand Prix 3.168 km (1.969 mi) Madras Motor Race Track: Irungattukottai India: Full 3.717 km (2.310 mi) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: Lexington United States: Grand Prix 3.630 km (2.256 mi) Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli: Misano Adriatico Italy: Short
Chicagoland Speedway officially opened to the public on July 12, 2001, for practice sessions for the 2001 Tropicana 400, a Cup Series race. [34] The track's first race, a second-tier NASCAR Busch Series (now called the Xfinity Series) race, was ran two days later with Jimmie Johnson winning the first race at the track. [35]