The Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton has direct access from the highway, which regularly sees massive backups on weekends when NASCAR races take place there.

In 2004 in his first race after a massive crash at Atlanta Motor Speedway, in which Tina Gordon and Hank Parker, Jr. were also involved, he picked up a win at Martinsville Speedway.

The rules were indeed changed, but it was due to an effort by the Speedway to get more car manufacturers involved in the race by discouraging the entry of specialized racing machines which dominated the 500 during the mid-to late -' 20s.

Kraft and Nabisco sponsored a part-time Sprint Cup effort in car # 81 driven by Jason Keller and John Andretti and fielded by Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Nabisco also sponsored Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the 2010 Subway Jalapeño 250 at Daytona International Speedway in July, 2010 with their Oreo / Ritz brand's and Tony Stewart with the Ritz brand in the 2010 DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway in 2010.

This effort is to ensure that NER would have its own " flagship " racetrack, as the two tracks it currently uses-New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Lime Rock Park in Connecticut-are heavily used by NASCAR.

He won a million dollars for the effort, but made an offer to return his prize money if IROC would hold one of its events at his Eldora Speedway.

He ran Bristol again the following year, in the Truck Series posting a career-best 9th place qualifying effort, as well as at Louisville Speedway, where he wrecked very early in the race.

In March 1996, CART filed a lawsuit against the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in an effort to protect their license to the IndyCar mark which the Indianapolis Motor Speedway had attempted to terminate.

His best finish in the 2006 Nextel Cup season was a 5th place effort at Michigan International Speedway, and he ended the season with five top-ten finishes.

He also earned Toyota's first pole on an oval ( California Speedway ) and earned Toyota's best qualifying effort on a road course at the current time ( third at the Australian Grand Prix ).

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

Speedway is a motorcycle sport in which the motorcycles have one gear and no brakes.

* NASCAR was hosted at Dover International Speedway, most drivers have special paint jobs with America flags for honor of the September 11 attacks, in God Bless the USA which was composed by Lee Greenwood, showed the aftermath of the World Trade Center in New York City.

The 1996 racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film Super Speedway, which Newman narrated.

Speedway racing takes place on asphalt or clay oval tracks which are normally between 1 / 6 mile and 1 / 4 mile long.

Richmond County is well known for its history in racing, with the advent of the Rockingham Speedway which opened in 1965.

The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.

Speedway is the home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, from which the town derives its name, and is a complete enclave of Indianapolis.

Meant to be a testing ground much like the famed race track which is its namesake, Speedway was designed to be a city that was hospitable to the car.

It is now well known for its retail area along Route 6, which includes a movie multiplex, many different chain stores and restaurants, the Seekonk Speedway, a " fast track " destination for ARC or auto racing club, as well as the Seekonk Golf Driving Range with batting cages and new miniature golf.

Brooklyn is located in a portion of central lower Michigan known for its lush, rolling green landscapes in the Irish Hills area of Southeast Michigan which contains scenic lakes surrounding Hayes State Park and Cambridge Junction Historic State Park which adjoins the Michigan International Speedway.

Mattawan has one fast-food chain, Subway, which is located in its Speedway gasoline station.

California is also home to a semi-private nine-hole golf course ; Double X Speedway, featuring street stock, sportsmans, winged sprints, and hobby stocks races May – September ; and the California Shooter's Club, which has shotgun and archery ranges.

Loudon is home to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is home to the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and the Sylvania 300, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series the New England 200, in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series the Sylvania 150, and is also home to the Loudon Classic, America's Oldest Motorcycle Race.

Concord is the home to Charlotte Motor Speedway, a NASCAR Research and Development Office ( which also is the headquarters for research for touring and sportscar racing operations ), and several professional race teams, including Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, and Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.

Rockingham is the home of Rockingham Speedway, formerly the North Carolina Speedway, which was a staple of the NASCAR schedule for nearly 40 years, before the race was discontinued in 2004.

The first growth spurt for the city came with the 1980 annexation of an additional to the south along the Mukilteo Speedway or SR 525, which increased the population to 4, 130 people.

Speedway owner Tony Hulman founded USAC in 1956, which took over sanctioning of the race and the sport of Indy car racing.

For 2011, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway moved the start time of the Indy 500 back to 12 noon EDT, which re-opened the window for travel.

The Stafford Motor Speedway attracts tens of thousands of spectators every year and is a fixture of spring and summer.

Because of the high water table in the area, the hole excavated filled with water to form what is now known as Lake Lloyd, named after Joseph " Sax " Lloyd, one of the original six members of the Daytona Beach Speedway Authority.

As an example, new affiliates WDJT in Milwaukee and WGNX in Atlanta — both cities that are home to NASCAR races — and WWJ in Detroit, close to Michigan International Speedway, were on the UHF band ( channels 14 – 69 ), meaning that they had a significantly reduced broadcast area compared to former affiliates WITI, WAGA-TV, and WJBK, respectively.

* Lee USA Speedway, a NASCAR track where several scenes of Days of Thunder ( starring Tom Cruise ) were filmed

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Indy 500 and the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway were held on different days of the week.

Despite public warnings from two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. claiming that if a driver does not respect the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the place " will bite you-hard " Montoya shrugged off the advice claiming that all four corners were exactly the same and that the track required less attention than the road courses in the CART series and in European racing.

The band were renamed " Paul McCartney and Wings " for the 1973 album Red Rose Speedway, which yielded the first U. S. No. 1 Wings hit, the romantic ballad " My Love ".

The 1916 race was shortened to 120 laps, for a number reasons including a lack of entries from Europe ( there were so few entries the Speedway itself entered several cars ), a lack of oil, and out of respect for the war in Europe.

In 1926, Fisher and Allison " were offered a fortune " for the Speedway site by a local real estate developer.

Meetings were set up and the Speedway was purchased on November 14, 1945.

Major renovations and repairs were made at a quick pace to the frail Speedway, in time for the 1946 race.

As two of these teams were backmarkers under normal circumstances, this led to Ferrari winning the race, accepting the trophies from a presentation party hastily assembled after Speedway boss Tony George refused to take part.

Of his 67 career championship car race victories, twelve ( 12 ) were won at Trenton ( NJ ) Speedway.

The first two Japanese Grands Prix in 1976 and 1977 were held at the Fuji Speedway, before Japan was taken off the calendar.

The exceptions were the steeply banked egg-shaped near oval of Brooklands in England, completed in 1907, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, first used in 1909 with the first Indianapolis 500-Mile Race in 1911, and the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, in Italy, opened in 1922.

: In the 1973 National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Allison protested that the engines in winner Cale Yarborough's and second-place Richard Petty's cars were over-sized.

The other three events were held at Portland Speedway, Saugus Speedway, and Tucson Raceway Park.

Until the end of 2003, 76 balls were located at the Daytona International Speedway.

In order to support Unigov, a compromise was arranged ; the cities of Beech Grove, Lawrence, Southport, and Speedway each maintained limited autonomy, with their own police forces, school systems, and mayors ( except Speedway ); in addition, fire service and school districts were maintained at their pre-Unigov borders, and some towns otherwise incorporated into the city were permitted to maintain independent police forces.

The young man was to travel to a race track called San Jose Speedway where usually there were more cars than drivers, then find a willing car owner to let him drive.

It has since traveled to the Festival of Speed at Goodwood in 1993, to Australia in 1995 for the CART Surfer's Paradise race, to Michigan International Raceway in 1996 for the U. S. 500 ( where demonstration laps at around 140 mph were made ), and to the California Speedway in 1997 for the Marlboro 500.

Three spectators were fatally injured after a tire went into the grandstands during a race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in North Carolina.