Kentucky Speedway (1.5 miles, intermediate, Trioval) in Sparta, Kentucky
The Kentucky Speedway is a typical 1.5-mile oval - a so-called cookie-cutter. This name gives you the generic intermediate ovals like in order to underline their very similar appearance to each other: punched out with a cookie cutter for Christmas cookies. The oval in Sparta, Kentucky is the same age while at the Kansas Speedway next, because it is 14 ° in the curves and 8-10 ° at the finish line is only about one degree less inflated than his brother in the Midwest. The back straight is nevertheless still at a manageable banking of 4 °, as is a degree less than in Kansas.
Together with the two intermediate ovals 2001, the Chicagoland Speedway as the last member of the triplets was completed in that time. You may like something different ovals together in a group, because after all, so far delivered the best Chicagoland comparative figures for Kansas. But only the last sibling got a place in the newly expanded 2001 calendar of the Sprint Cup, while the Kentucky Speedway for the time being had to make do with one race in the trucks and the Nationwide Series. This occurred probably because the NASCAR-owned International Speedway Corporation (ISC) is responsible for the construction of the other two showed intermediate ovals, while Kentucky was in the independent private ownership.
Owner Jerry Carroll was not at all agree that his Speedway had no place in the Sprint Cup and get moved unceremoniously to justice. After several years of litigation ended in 2008 with a loss of Carroll, which NASCAR probably the obvious cartel could not prove sufficient. The last option, but still get an appointment in the calendar, offered at this time a sale to the ISC competitor Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) race tracks magnate Burton Smith. Had hoped for a place for the 2009 season could be realized, however, it no longer and soon also became clear that Smith would probably sacrifice one of his race on a track for SMI Kentucky.
Mid-2010 it was known then that is no longer regularly sold-out Atlanta Motor Speedway would lose one of its data to a race in the Kentucky Cup Sprint to provide. In preparation for this premiere event, the SMI extended audience capacity of the oval again to 107,000 from 66,000 seats, which were actually reported only nine days before the race, but sold out. The first event of the Sprint Cup at the Kentucky Speedway has scheduled the same way as a triple-header, with the Nationwide Series and Trucks in tow.
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