Nashville Superspeedway

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Nashville Superspeedway
Image:Nashvillesspeedway.jpg
Location 4847-F McCrary
Lebanon, TN 37090
Capacity 50,000
Owner Dover Motorsports
Major events NASCAR Busch Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Indy Racing League, ARCA RE/MAX Series
Concrete D-shaped oval
Circuit Length 2.145 km (1.333 mi)
Banking 14°
Nashville Superspeedway is a motor racing complex located in Gladeville, Tennessee (though the track has a Lebanon address), United States, about 48 km (30 miles) east of Nashville. It is a concrete oval track 2.145 km (1.333 miles) in length. Nashville Superspeedway is owned by Dover Motorsports, which owns Dover International Speedway.

The track was built in 2001 and currently hosts four major races: two NASCAR Nationwide Series races, an Indy Racing League event, and a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. Current permanent seating capacity is approximately 50,000 [1]. Additional portable seats are brought in for some events, and seating capacity can be expanded to 150,000.[2] As of 2005, NASCAR has shown little interest in staging a Sprint Cup Series race or other major event at the track, though NASCAR would likely not object if track ownership moved one of its races from Dover International Speedway to Nashville. Management has shown no inclination to move either of its two successful races away from Dover. Nashville Superspeedway is the only track to host two NASCAR Nationwide Series races without hosting a Sprint Cup Series event.

As is a Nashville metropolitan tradition, specially-designed Gibson Les Paul guitars are presented to race winners in place of conventional trophies. The track also has a reputation for producing many first-time winners.

The track is referred by the classic term of a "superspeedway" (a track of one mile or longer, compared to a short track), and is named to differentiate itself from the .596 mile Nashville Speedway USA (now Music City Motorplex) at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds near downtown Nashville. Until 1984, the Nashville Speedway USA had conducted a pair of 420-lap races in the Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series), but NASCAR pulled its sanctioning license from the circuit after disputes over who would manage the track took place prior to the start of the 1985 season.

See also: List of NASCAR race tracks

Contents

[edit] Current Races

[edit] Records

[edit] Feature Race Winners

[edit] NASCAR Nationwide Series

Season Race Name Month Winning Driver Manufacturer
2001 Pepsi 300 April Greg Biffle Ford
2002 Pepsi 300 April Scott Riggs Ford
2002 Inside Traxx 300 June Jack Sprague Chevrolet
2003 Pepsi 300 April David Green Pontiac
2003 Trace Adkins Chrome 300 June Scott Riggs Ford
2004 Pepsi 300 April Michael Waltrip Chevrolet
2004 Federated Auto Parts 300 June Jason Leffler Chevrolet
2005 Pepsi 300 March Reed Sorenson Dodge
2005 Federated Auto Parts 300 June Clint Bowyer Chevrolet
2006 Pepsi 300 April Kevin Harvick Chevrolet
2006 Federated Auto Parts 300 June Carl Edwards Ford
2007 Pepsi 300 April Carl Edwards Ford
2007 Federated Auto Parts 300 June Carl Edwards Ford

[edit] NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Season Race Name Winning Driver Manufacturer
2001 Federated Auto Parts 200 Scott Riggs Dodge
2002 Federated Auto Parts 200 Mike Bliss Chevrolet
2003 Federated Auto Parts 200 Carl Edwards Ford
2004 Toyota Tundra 200 Bobby Hamilton Dodge
2005 Toyota Tundra 200 David Reutimann Toyota
2006 Toyota Tundra 200 Johnny Benson Toyota
2007 Toyota Tundra 200 Travis Kvapil Ford

[edit] Indy Racing League IndyCar Series

Main article: Firestone Indy 200

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20040622143927/http://www.nashvillesuperspeedway.com/aboutUs.html
  2. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050413012726/http://www.nashvillesuperspeedway.com/aboutUs.html

[edit] External links


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