Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2.5 miles, Intermediate / Superspeedway, Rectangular) in Speedway, Indiana
Since 1994, driven once a year at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which is otherwise almost exclusively the IndyCars. The track itself is a little unusual circumstances NASCAR, because Indy is 2.5 miles, by definition, is actually a super speedway. However, the banking with a 9 ° 12 'not steep enough to reach speeds in the curves of more than 150mph. While you drive on the two long straights with more than 200mph, but the NASCAR waived in Indianapolis on the usual "restrictor plates". 160 laps is therefore the 400th race distance at Allstate 1996 began the tradition of kissing the winner after the race, the legendary "yard of bricks". Dale Jarrett was able to bring this action even with a "ceremony" by NASCAR to IndyCars.
But other issues of the Allstate 400 are worth mentioning: 1998 Jeff Gordon became the first driver repeated his victory, he added the 2001 and 2004 two more. 2004 also was the very first Cup race at all, which is a "green-white-checker finish" saw. In this extra round was Jeff Gordon then past the leader Mark Martin (blowouts) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (engine failure), which were curiously in both problems. 2007 Juan Pablo Montoya became the first driver who had participated in Indy at all three major races, namely before the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula 1 Grand Prix of the USA. 2008 was a chaotic race tire in history where the rubber rubbed off within ten rounds up the carcass and had so many "competition cautions" had to be proclaimed. 2009 Goodyear managed remedy, because it was performed only seven tire tests, so that similar non-repeating. In the said year then almost succeeded Montoya's first oval victory in NASCAR, but a speeding in the pitlane made all my dreams to naught.
Although published in the NASCAR audience, but not go all observers believe that in the inaugural tournament in 1994, as many fans as never before visited a Cup race. To this day, Indy leader in the audience. The premiere also brought up to the time the highest price money for a win, because Jeff Gordon got U.S. $ 613 000 with more than twice as much as the premium Daytona winner of this year, Sterling Marlin. Meanwhile, divide Indy and Texas, however, again took second place after the season's climax, in which there is to win with 1.5 million U.S. dollars now more than three times as much. The more than $ 500,000 but make sure that the winner receives a similar attention as the Daytona 500 winner. Jeff Gordon was able to increase his fame after winning in 1994, considerable. Another interesting statistic: In 50% of the previous cases won by the winner of this race the way at the end of the championship.
