Short tracks are less than 1 mile in length – count Martinsville Speedway (.526 miles), Bristol Motor Speedway (.533 miles) and Richmond Raceway (.75 miles) in that category for the Cup Series.

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The company is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida. Each year, NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks in 48 US states as well as in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Europe.

oval track The most standard shape is the oval track. These racetracks vary in length from the shortest track, which is Martinsville Speedway, at 0.53 miles to the longest track, which is the Talladega Superspeedway at 2.66 miles. Another popular type of track is the tri-oval like the Michigan International Speedway.

Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. There are two different types of sprint cars used for racing; Winged and Non-Winged.

noun. : a short footrace of usually less than a quarter of a mile in distance that is run at top speed.

Talladega is the longest racetrack on the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule. This 2.66-mile high-banked oval is one of two racetracks on the circuit that requires the use of restrictor plates to keep the speeds under control.

List of NASCAR tracks

• 2.1 Key to tables.
• 2.2 Road and street courses.
• 2.3 Paved intermediate tracks and superspeedways.
• 2.4 Paved short tracks.
• 2.5 Dirt oval tracks.

NASCAR, in full National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, sanctioning body for stock-car racing in North America, founded in 1948 in Daytona Beach, Fla., and responsible for making stock-car racing a widely popular sport in the United States by the turn of the 21st century.

National Association for Stock Car Auto RacingNASCAR / Full name

The use of concrete and asphalt in the modern day is common practice for NASCAR track owners. While concrete is typically used in the banking corners, due to the grip of the high speed vehicles crumbling asphalt, blacktop is generally used for the remainder of the tracks. Only two NASCAR tracks are fully concrete.

How NASCAR Tracks Are Measured. NASCAR tracks are measured using eight points, at each point a NASCAR representative measures three grooves in the track. The next step involves taking six images of each groove. The images are used to represent the middle line, low line, and high line.