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In North American motorsports, a superspeedway is a , intermediate tracks, and road courses. The most famous superspeedway from a NASCAR standpoint is undoubtedly Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida . Built in 1959 as a replacement for the Daytona Beach Road Course , which combined the town's main street and its famous beach, the track holds the Daytona 500 , NASCAR's most important single race. It also contains a road course that use the NASCAR turns (1,2,3,4) and a track that runs through the infield. This tracks holds the Rolex sports car series 24 Hours of Daytona. The longest and fastest superspeedway is the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama . Built in the 1960s, it is 2.66 miles (4.20 kilometers) long, and holds the current record for fastest speed in a stock car, 228 miles per hour (367 km/h). http://www.nascar.com/2004/news/headlines/cup/06/10/rwallace_talladega/index.html NASCAR has 6 tracks that it classifies as superspeedways: Talladega Superspeedway (2.66 miles) Talladega, AL; Daytona International Speedway (2.5 miles) Daytona Beach, FL; Pocono Raceway (2.5 miles) Long Pond, PA ; Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2.5 miles) Speedway, IN ; California Speedway (2 miles) Fontana, CA ; Michigan International Speedway (2 miles) Brooklyn, MI http://www.nascar.com/races/tracks/ REFERENCES |
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