Charlotte Motor Speedway
Charlotte Motor Speedway (1.5 miles, intermediate, quad oval) in Concord, North Carolina
From 1959-1960 that was then and now rebuilt as "Charlotte Motor Speedway" known oval of Bruton Smith for today's dirt-cheap 1.25 million U.S. dollars in Concord, North Carolina. With 167,000 spectators, the track is also one of the big five in NASCAR, what that category. The Speedway is still owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc., and thus constitutes something of a flagship line of the company, whose corporate headquarters is also located on the premises. Similarly, the area around Charlotte, North Carolina, the home of most NASCAR teams: 90% of all race teams have their headquarters within a radius of 80km around the speedway built around some "directly opposite" even. 1999 sold its naming rights to the track for ten years on the U.S. home improvement chain Lowe's, who is also a sponsor of Jimmie Johnson. End of 2009, said the contract ran out, however, so the oval is known since 2010 under its original name again.
1.5 miles and 24 degrees banking make the Charlotte Motor Speedway in one of the fastest tracks calendar. The layout will share the oval with his equally 1960 opened sister track in Atlanta and the still relatively young Texas Motor Speedway: All routes are "quad-ovals", so they have the usual four turns, but a curved two links Knicks start-finish straight, which they differ from "D-shaped" ovals differ slightly. Except one Chase race in October in Charlotte (actually Concord) still run in May, where the NASCAR on two directly consecutive weekends, a similarly large show like the "Daytona Speedweeks" gathers, and even in a Pit Crew Challenge, best of the Cup pit crew is determined. At the All-Star race followed a week later with the Coca-Cola 600 is the longest race of the year. 2005 made it up to its name because it was so far the only race that lasted more than five hours, except for red-phase. Debt was Goodyear, the tire brought to an inappropriate route, which previously received a pavement rehabilitation. Record-breaking 22 Cautions were the result.
