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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: 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.