New Hampshire Motor Speedway (1 mile, short track, 2x 180-degree turns) in Loudon, New Hampshire
The route in the Pacific Northwest is an oval with a length of 1,058 miles, a superelevation of 12% (approximately 7 °) and provides about 100,000 spectators. Twenty years ago, opened up the race track since 1993, and here are the races of the Sprint Cup staged. Since 1997, regularly held a second round of the season. Before the speedway closer to the open-Wheelern was known, CART and Indy cars there regularly turned their laps.
In 2000, Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin Jr. were in New Hampshire after her life and even Dale Earnhardt Sr 2001 Daytona fatal accident, did you look at it, rebuild the Speedway and introduced new safety measures in cars. The teams were required to install some kind of emergency stop switch in the car so that in case of a stuck accelerator pedal, the motor can be switched off. In Petty and Irwin was possible without this breaker when timely braking more before the frontal impact. Before 2003, finally, a SAFER barrier was installed, got a major overhaul of the banking donated: One part of the apron was to hit the road and increased to 4 ° towards the outside wall now rises up to curve superelevation at 7 degrees. It should have acted but rather a measure to improve the quality of racing.
The New Hampshire Motor Speedway is also the introduction of the "immediate Caution" including "free pass rule" responsible. Until 2003 it was still common, was that until the beginning of a caution period at the finish line ended with the race pace lap. Are as Dale Jarrett in his car after an accident on the track stayed, he was in danger of being hit by another car on which a traditional "race back to the caution flag." The so-called "lucky dog", ie the "lucky" that controls the first car behind the leader, which has a lap behind, gets his turn paid back by NASCAR. This was necessary because there had been a "gentlemen's agreement" commanded the drivers on the lead lap to let pass the lapped competitor in the "race to the flag."
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