Track Facts
Superspeedway Track Facts
- Length: 1.5 miles or 7, 920 feet
- Frontstretch: 1,980 feet
- Backstretch: 1,500 feet
- Turns 1 & 2: 2,400 feet
- Turns 3 & 4: 2,040
- Radius Turns 1 & 2: 685 feet
- Radius Turns 3 & 4: 625 feet
- Banking in corners: 24-degrees
- Banking is straightaways: 5-degrees
- Seating capacity: 150,000
- Suites: 113
Fun Facts
- There are more than 160 flagpoles located throughout the speedway property.
- The speedway has more than 1,900 toilets on property for it's fans.
- Nearly 7,000 trash cans are placed throughout speedway property to collect the 400 tons of trash that will be generated during a NASCAR event weekend.
- Three 30-foot truckloads of paper products (paper towels/toilet paper) will be used at race time.
- It takes 6,000 people and more than 100,000 hours of work to carry out the UAW-GM Quality 500 - twice the effort it takes to put on the Super Bowl.
- Lowe's Motor Speedway spends nearly $800,000 a year on landscaping to make sure the grounds look nice for its visitors.
- Lowe's Motor Speedway ground crews use more 35 tractors and 21 lawn mowers to keep the speedway's nearly 2,000 acres manicured.
- On Coca-Cola 600 race day, the nearly 180,000 people at Lowe's Motor Speedway make it the fourth largest city in North Carolina behind Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro.
- The land Lowe's Motor Speedway now occupies was the site of a working plantation during the Civil War.
- George Washington ate lunch and rested in a house that once served as the speedway's office.
- The small one-fifth-mile paved oval located outside the turn -three tunnel is known as "Outback Speedway," because it's located "outback."
- The inner perimeter road around Lowe's Motor Speedway is named in honor of three-time NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip, a five-time winner of the Coca-Cola 600.
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