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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

NASCAR Nationwide Series
O'Reilly 300, O'Reilly Challenge

IRL
Bombardier Learjet 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.

Past NASCAR Sprint Cup WinnersEdit

Year Driver Started Car # Owner Make
1997 Jeff Burton 5 99 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
1998 Mark Martin 7 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
1999 Terry Labonte 4 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
2000 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 4 8 Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Chevrolet
2001 Dale Jarrett 3 88 Yates Racing Ford
2002 Matt Kenseth 31 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
2003 Ryan Newman 3 12 Penske Racing Dodge
2004 Elliott Sadler 19 38 Yates Racing Ford
2005 Greg Biffle 5 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
2005 Carl Edwards 30 99 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
2006 Kasey Kahne 1 9 Evernham Motorsports Dodge
2006 Tony Stewart 8 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet
2007 Jeff Burton 2 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
2007 Jimmie Johnson 8 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
2008 Carl Edwards 2 99 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
2008 Carl Edwards 16 99 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
2009 Jeff Gordon 2 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
2009 Kurt Busch 3 2 Penske Racing Dodge
2010 Denny Hamlin 29 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
2010 Denny Hamlin 30 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
2011 Matt Kenseth 4 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford
2011 Tony Stewart 5 14 Stewart Haas Racing Chevrolet

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