Texas Motor Speedway (1.5 miles, intermediate, quad oval) in Fort Worth, Texas
The Texas Motor Speedway is a 1.5-mile oval in the same form as Atlanta or Charlotte, and is therefore also known as its sister course. All three ovals have a banking of 24 ° and the characteristic double kinked start / finish straight, but Texas is about 35 years younger than his sisters. Other features of the Speedway are on the one hand, the extremely high price of money: Since the pot is well filled, of course, getting the start-and-park-entries a bigger slice of the pie than usual, which makes participation very attractive. The race in Texas offering the winner a half million dollars and this is the third largest prize money for the Daytona 500 ($ 1.5 million) and the All-Star race ($ 1 million), ahead of such classics as Indy or the Coca Cola 600, the only slightly less than half a million U.S. dollars have to offer. Secondly, the admission capacity of 191 122 seats for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (at least 257 325), the second largest in NASCAR, currently the two super speedway (Talladega: 175,000 Daytona: 167 785) and Lowe's Motor Speedway (167,000).
Since 1997, a guest of the Cup at the Texas Motor Speedway since 2005 and is also a second round of the season. At that time, Texas and Phoenix each received an appointment from Rockingham and Darlington awarded one of the most controversial changes to the calendar NASCAR history. Rockingham was then no longer represented on the racing scene and the "Lady in Black" lost its traditional Labor Day race, the 500th Southern It is true that since last year, the only remaining Darlington race again, the legendary name, but will now take place on Mother's Day. The Texas Motor Speedway since 2005 that is also represented in the Chase.
The Indy is the Texas Motor Speedway is synonymous with the super speedways of NASCAR. Flat-out, it goes to the open-wheel vehicles through the four turns, so often breathtaking slipstream duels can be seen. 2011 divided the IndyCar race at Texas officials on a trial basis in two sub-events, where each half of the normal points were awarded. This concept has not gained acceptance after complaints from drivers about the upturned boot order in the second race, however.
Celebrity in the Formula scene gained the Oval in 2001 when the "Firestone Firehawk 600" the former CART series due to high speeds had to be canceled: Paul Tracy reached in free practice on Saturday, a record speed mph from 236 678 (380,896 km / h) at Texas Motor Speedway, at G-forces by a factor of 5 for about 3/4 of the round. After practice and qualifying, reported 21 of the 25 participating drivers of dizziness, when more than 10 laps were run. Patrick Carpentier could not walk for ten minutes, for example, after getting really straight. In the Indy cars can be as a G-Overload happen but no longer, because CART seinerseit turbo engines began, which were much higher speeds than possible with today's suction units. At Wikipedia there is to it, after being canceled, race still a complete and very interesting article .
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