Daytona International Speedway

Daytona International Speedway (2.5 miles, Super Speedway tri-oval) in Daytona Beach, Florida

The Daytona International Speedway impressed with a total length of 2.5 miles and a unique superelevation of 31 ° and these proportions are only surpassed by the track at Talladega. Imagine once, you'd boards on his house roof with 300km / h along, you get a good idea of ​​the action there. If you stand on the apron, one looks first several meters upwards until one sees the SAFER Barrier. In physical terms this means that a car must be at least 60mph, so scarce 100km / h in order to keep on the banking above can.

Planning for the Daytona International Speedway began a few years after the founding of NASCAR. In 1953, Bill France Sr. began to discuss this huge oval and future figurehead of the sport with engineers. As a feasibility study, the Ford Proving Grounds served by the way in Detroit, Michigan, in which you look at some abschaute for the realization of the extreme banking. In 1957 the ground was broken, and two years later, construction was completed. Fun Fact: For the huge banked corners ground was used from the infield, where the pit gradually filled with water due to the high water table. The resulting lake still exists today and has even been given a name: Lake Lloyd.

The long Daytona years so characteristic bumps had after the summer 2010 race bless the temporal, as the huge companies began to paved Daytona for the second time after 1978 new. The reason was to break up the road, which led during the repair break to a massive audience slump on the screens in the 2010 edition of the legendary Daytona 500th Almost half a year later was on the 31-degree banking of the huge, 2.5-mile super speedway, a new strip of asphalt, in time for the next meeting date of the Great American Race. This new racing surface then also brought some changes, which had a huge impact on the previously known, traditional restrictor-plate racing or Bump Drafting: The Two-car trains were seen for the first time in 2011 at a Daytona 500th

Since 1959, NASCAR also runs a second race of the season on the Super Speedway of Daytona. At that time, was originally the predecessor of Champ Car, the USAC racing series, organized a race on the 2.5-mile track. However, in the run there were some accidents, so that they never returned to Daytona. NASCAR replaced the open-wheeler and started in the first four years with a race distance of only 250 miles before since 1962, 400 miles are driven. Then in 2008 the title of the official soft drink supplier of the ovals of the International Speedway Corporation (ISC) changed hands and out of the Pepsi 400 was the Coke Zero 400

The race is known that it always takes place around the time of the Independence Days, a direct meeting of 4 July and the event certainly has rarity value. The last race of the "Fourth of July" was held in 1992, ought to have actually repeat in 1998. At that time, however, wildfires threatened the Speedway and the race, which should be the first Daytona night race, moreover, has been moved to the fall. Since the Yanks on holidays not skimp known and the "Troops" are particularly promoted and revered expects always a pompous show. You have to hold it like ...