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Thunderhill Raceway Park is a motorsports complex located 7 mi (11 km) west of Willows, California, United States, in the Sacramento Valley. It is the venue for the longest automobile race in the United States, the 25 Hours of Thunderhill , held annually during the first weekend in December.
Thunder Mountain Speedway was opened in 1992 in rural Center Lisle, New York, by Karl Spoonhower. The location creates a natural bowl, allowing for a high banked race track and built-in seating for 2500 carved out of the surrounding hillside. [1] [2]
The race is longest road event on a closed course in the United States. It has been run since 2003, [ 1 ] sanctioned by the National Auto Sport Association . [ 2 ] It is the successor to the Timex 12 Hours of Thunderhill event run between 1998 and 2002.
The 2024 Bass Pro Shops Night Race was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on September 21, 2024, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. The race was contested over 500 laps on the .533 mile (0.858 km) short track.
For the 2010 season, NASCAR lowered the age minimum for its weekly racing series from 16 to 14. In 2005 the Weekly Series became the first NASCAR-sanctioned series to have a permanent presence outside of the United States, as tracks in Saint-Eustache, Quebec , Delaware, Ontario , and Wetaskiwin, Alberta , elected to be represented in the series.
May 23—Ty Gibbs drove to Victory Lane once again at Toledo Speedway. And this time he was showered with cheers. Gibbs, who won a fan-less ARCA East race at Toledo last year, led 153 of 200 laps ...
The Memphis International Raceway (more commonly known as MIR) was founded in 1986 by Ed Gatlin, who along with a group of investors, bought a 400-acre tract of land within the northeastern section of Shelby County, and built a drag strip with an adjacent road course, including a dirt track and a go-kart track. [2]
The speedway is currently an 18 degree banked paved oval. The track is 0.596 mi (0.959 km) long. Inside the larger oval is a 0.250 mi (0.402 km) paved oval. [citation needed] The track was converted to a 0.250 mi (0.402 km) paved oval in 1957, when it began to be a NASCAR series track. The speedway was lengthened between the 1969 and 1970 seasons.