Texas Motor Speedway
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| Texas Motor Speedway | |
| The Great American Speedway | |
| Facility statistics | |
|---|---|
| Location | 3545 Lone Star Circle, Justin, Texas 76247 (this is the mailing address, the track is located in Fort Worth) |
| Broke ground | April 11, 1995 |
| Opened | February 29, 1996 |
| Owner | Speedway Motorsports, Inc. |
| Operator | Speedway Motorsports, Inc. |
| Construction cost | $250 million USD |
| Architect | |
| Former names | |
| none | |
| Major events | |
| NASCAR Sprint Cup Samsung/Radio Shack 500, Dickies 500 | |
| Seating capacity | |
| 154,861 (NASCAR & IndyCar) | |
| Current dimensions | |
| Track shape | Quad-oval |
| Track length | 1.5 miles |
| Track banking | Turns - 24 degrees |
Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of Fort Worth, Texas -- the portion located in Denton County, Texas. (The mailing address lists nearby Justin, Texas, the nearest post office, but the track itself is in Fort Worth -- signage on the Turn 1 and 3 walls reads "Fort Worth -- Denton County".) The track layout is very similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway). The track measures 1.5 miles around and is banked 24 degrees in the turns, and is of the quad-oval design, where the front straghtaway juts outward slightly. The track is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., the same company that owns Atlanta and Lowe's Motor Speedways, as well as the short-track Bristol Motor Speedway.
Based on qualifying speeds in 2004 and 2005, the Texas Motor Speedway was once considered the fastest non-restrictor plate track on the NASCAR circuit, with qualifying speeds in excess of 192 mph and corner entry speeds over 200 mph. However, as the tracks' respective racing surfaces continue to wear, qualifying speeds at Atlanta have become consistently faster than at Texas (2005 and 2006). [1]
Texas Motor Speedway is home to two NASCAR Sprint Cup races: the Samsung/Radio Shack 500 and the Dickies 500, as well as two Nationwide Series Races, and the O'Reilly 300 and the O'Reilly Challenge.
[edit] External links
- Texas Motor Speedway Official Site
- Texas Motor Speedway Page on NASCAR.com
- GNEXTINC.com: Texas Motor Speedway Page - Local area information, track specs, mapping, news and more.
- Jayski's Texas Motor Speedway Page - Current and Past Texas Motor Speedway News
- High Resolution image from Google Maps
