Atlanta Motor Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: Atlanta is a wide, 1.5 mile quad oval, with a straight back stretch and two small turns in the front stretch. The corners are banked at a generous 24 degrees, and they are certainly the key to winning, because nearly two-thirds of every lap is spent turning the car. You see a lot of speed at Atlanta...
Bristol Motor Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: There are a few things to remember about this all-concrete, high-contact track. First, at .533 miles, it’s the second shortest track on the circuit—but drivers will tell you it's super fast. Why? Well with 36 degree banking in the turns—the most on any cup track—you’re flying around at abo...
California Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: Hosting its first race in 1997, California is one of the new breed of racetracks: big and beautiful, with state of the art accommodations for both the fans and the drivers. This 2-mile D-shaped oval looks a lot like the track in Michigan: it’s wide, fast, and 2 miles long. But California is flatt...
Chicagoland Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: Chicagoland Speedway is actually located in Joliet, Illinois, southwest of Chicago. This beautiful 1.5 mile tri-oval first opened in 2001. Although a lot of folks think of it as a boring new “cookie cutter track,” it also reminds one of a three-quarter-scale version of Fontana and Michigan, wit...
Darlington Raceway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: They call this 1.366-mile, egg-shaped oval “The Lady in Black” and “The Track Too Tough to Tame.” And any veteran will tell you Darlington is one place where you have to beat the track first and your fellow drivers second. Dale Earnhardt put it best when he said, “There’s no victory so s...
Daytona International Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: Finished in 1959, Daytona was a true breakthrough when it opened, and it still stands as the signature NASCAR venue in the world today. Long and fast, Daytona is a 2.5 mile tri-oval with a full 31 degrees of banking in the turns and 18 down the front stretch. With a track that long and highly banked...
Dover International Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: Most race fans know Dover as the Monster Mile. Reminiscent of a big Bristol, it’s one mile of high banked concrete that’s intense, sticky, and so fast that you shouldn’t forget it’s other nickname: White Lightning. Dover has hosted two Cup races every year since 1971, and with 24-degree bank...
Homestead-Miami Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: The racing at Homestead was initially not considered very good. The track opened as a four-turn, rectangular-oval, based on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's layout. In the summer of 1997, an $8.2 million reconfiguration project changed the turns from a quad-oval to a traditional, continuous turn ov...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
TRACK DESCRIPTION: This legendary Speedway has been around for a while. It was first built for the growing Indiana automobile industry, and in 1909 was paved over with 3.2 million bricks. Most of those bricks sit under the asphalt, except for a one-yard strip at the start finish line that the cars still drive over—a...
