Lowe's Motor Speedway Track Facts
Built more than four decades ago, the largest sports facility in the Southeast has 167,000 permanent seats, including 121 executive suites, and capacity for nearly 50,000 more spectators in the infield area. Lowe's Motor Speedway was the first superspeedway to host night racing in 1992 and was the first sports facility in America to offer year-round living accommodations when it released 40 condominiums for sale high above Turn One in 1984.
Owner: Speedway Motorsports, Inc.
Date Opened: June 1960
First Race: World 600, June 19, 1960
Circuit Length: 1.5 mile/2.414km, 6 turns; 2.250 miles/3.621 km road course, 11 turns.
Circuit Type: Permanent oval and road courses.
Banking in Turns: 1 - 4: 24 degrees
Banking in Straights: 5 degrees
Length of Frontstretch: 1,952 ft.
Length of Backstretch: 1,360 ft.
Grandstand Seating: 171,000
Miles/Laps:
600 mi = 400 laps
500 mi = 334 laps
Most Cautions: 22
Fewest Cautions: 0
1984-2010 Sprint Cup
1984-2010 Nationwide Series
