1.5-mile The 1.5-mile racing surface at Atlanta Motor Speedway is a full-size race track, built for high speeds and competitive racing.

Atlanta Motor Speedway

Track length: 1.54 miles (2.48 km) Turns: Approximately one-quarter mile, banked 24 degrees. Straightaways: Banked 5 degrees. Race lap record: 224.163 mph by Billy Boat, IRL Indycar Series, 1998.

There was mud all over. You talk about Mudville. Casey would have been right at home." When the 1.5-mile track, then called Atlanta International Raceway, finally made its debut on July 31, 1960, it became the seventh superspeedway, a paved facility of one mile or more, to play host to a Cup race.

four laps Typical Speedway league racing is run between two teams over 15 heats (races) which each consist of four laps. Each team has 7 riders with 2 riders from each team taking part in each heat with a simple objective – to beat the opposition and get to the chequered flag first!

One of the oldest stops on the NASCAR circuit, the Atlanta Motor Speedway, held its first race on this day in 1960. A crowd of 25,000 watched Glenn “Fireball” Roberts ride to victory lane. The racetrack was built in the wake of the first running of the Daytona 500 in 1959.

Speedway or intermediate tracks make up the bulk of the NASCAR schedule. Those are defined by any track greater than one mile in length, with the exception of both Daytona and Talladega. Short tracks are less than 1 mile in length – count Martinsville Speedway (. 526 miles), Bristol Motor Speedway (.

7 riders Typical Speedway league racing is run between two teams over 15 heats (races) which each consist of four laps. Each team has 7 riders with 2 riders from each team taking part in each heat with a simple objective – to beat the opposition and get to the chequered flag first!

Ovals are considered to have 4 turns, even though many are sweeping continuous 1-2, and 3-4, hooked together by straightaways.

Atlanta is considered a big city. It is the capital and most populous city of the state of Georgia in the United States.

Atlanta is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Census Bureau's Southeast region, behind that of Greater Washington, D.C. It surpassed the Greater Miami area in total population in 2021.

During NASCAR events, it takes less than a minute for the cars to complete a lap around the 2.500 mi (4.023 km) tri-oval course.