Indy Racing League Tracks: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Exhibition Place, Grand Prix of Long Beach, Auto Club Speedway

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Exhibition Place, Grand Prix of Long Beach, Auto Club Speedway, Watkins Glen International, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway, Milwaukee Mile, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Walt Disney World Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Gateway International Raceway, Chicagoland Speedway, Richmond International Raceway, Kansas Speedway, Detroit Indy Grand Prix, Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Dover International Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Twin Ring Motegi, Nashville Superspeedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Edmonton Indy, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Kentucky Speedway, Barber Motorsports Park, Nazareth Speedway, Iowa Speedway, Pikes Peak International Raceway, Sao Paulo Indy 300. Excerpt: The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (an enclave suburb of Indianapolis) in the United States, is the home of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the Brickyard 400. It has existed since 1909, and is the original Speedway, the first racing facility so named. With a permanent seating capacity for more than 257,000 people and infield seating that raises capacity to approximately 400,000, it is the largest and highest-capacity sporting facility in the world. Considered relatively flat by American standards, the track is a two-and-a-half-mile, nearly rectangular oval with dimensions that have remained essentially unchanged since its inception: four 1/4-mile turns, two 5/8-mile long straightaways between the fourth and first and second and third turns, and two 1/8-mile short straightaways, termed short chutes, between the first and second, and third and fourth turns. A modern infield road course was constructed between 1998 and 2000, incorporating the western...