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: 167,000 • 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.