Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5 miles, intermediate, D-shaped) in Las Vegas, Nevada
The oval in the desert of Nevada is one of the calendar so prominently represented in the "cookie cutter" race tracks. This term refers to the 1.5-mile speedway, all of which look as if they had been gouged out with the same giant cookie cutter. Strictly be used to distinguish between the vastly inflated, but quad-ovals of Speedway Motorsports Inc. (Atlanta, Charlotte, Texas) and the D-shaped tri-oval or the NASCAR-owned International Speedway Corporation (Chicagoland, Kansas). For this, the ISC or the Homestead-Miami Speedway with his unconventional layout and has two 180 degree turns. But in contrast, SMI is also in possession of two D-shaped tri-oval or: The 2008 Kentucky Speedway and just purchased the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which boasts a special feature:
Since 2006, the Speedway on the outskirts of the metropolis as well as players Homestead an asphalt strip with so-called "progressive banking" get. This means nothing else than that which bends increases, the more one approaches the SAFER Barrier. Boring race demanded this measure and so the banking in Las Vegas from 12 ° to 20 ° increases, making it now stands exactly between the above-mentioned types of track and reach similar speeds in Charlotte, Atlanta or Texas. Better racing results from the fact that all lanes on the road quite as fast can be.
The track is it since 1996, when the truck series started there first, the Nationwide Series and 1998 followed a year later, ultimately, the Cup. The race in the premier league are regularly sold out well, if we are to believe the official line of the SMI and desperately wants another date on the calendar. But there is one big problem: A second Cup race owner Bruton Smith would have to allocate internally, which would then another SMI track to be fatal.
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