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| Track Specifications |
| 2.5-miles |
| Turns 1 & 4 |
| Banking: 9 degrees |
| Frontstretch |
| Length: 5/8 mile |
| Backstretch |
| Length: 5/8 mile |
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| Schedule |
| Winston Cup |
| Brickyard 400, August 7 |
| IRL |
| Indianapolis 500, May 30 |
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| Compacity |
More than 250,000 permanent seats (world's largest sports seating facility)
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened in 1909 as an auto motive testin and competition
facility. When its first series of races caused the original surface of crushed rocks and tar to
break up, the track was repaved with 3.2 million bricks.
It has been known as the "Brickyard" ever since. Most of the bricks still remain under the
Track's asphalt surface.
Since 1911, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been home to the famed Indianapolis
500. In August 1994, the NASCAR Winston Cup Series visited the 2.5-mile for the
inaugural running of the Brickyard 400. |
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| Location |
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4790 W. 16th Street. Bordered by 16th Street on the south, Georgetown Road on the west, and 30th Street on the north
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