DOVER DOWNS INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
Known as ‘White Lightning’, the Dover Downs International Speedway is the first and the only concrete super speedway with 24 degree banking in NASCAR history providing magnificent racing action. The track comprises of snack bars, beer, restrooms, VIP skyboxes, an enclosed air-conditioned grandstand and media hospitality areas. During race events, licensed NASCAR products and related memorabilia are available around the track from numerous merchants. Dover Speedway is offering largest seating capacity of any sports facility between New York and the Carolinas. Every year seating capacity is growing continuously with about 20,000 new seats added to the current capacity of 140,000 seats (2001). The one-mile Dover Downs International Speedway is among one of those tracks, which are ‘tough as nails’, visited by the Winston Cup Series. HISTORY
OF DOVERS DOWN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY It is also known as ‘The Monster Mile’ by the drivers because of the
tremendous physical demands placed upon them. With a type of racing the
competition becomes intimate and very intense and no wonder people continue to
fill up the 140,000 seats surrounding the ‘The Monster Mile.’ Opened
in July, 1969, the Speedway hosted its first NASCAR Winston Cup Series. In 1971, the track was extended to 500 miles
for the Winston Cup. Bobby Allison emerged as the winner of first Dover
victory. Petty, a second 500-mile race winner was added to inaugural honors.
The events were shortened to 400 miles each in order to make the event more
competitive in the 1997 season. Petty and Bobby Allison are the 7 times
winners, while David Pearson won 6 times at the Dover Downs International
Speedway. Featuring
NASCAR racing, Dover Downs is a 5/8-mile racing track with a gambling venue
called the Dover Slots. Dover Downs Entertainment also claims to have Toyota
Grand Prix of Long Beach, Memphis Motor sports Park, Nashville Speedway USA and
Gateway International. Dover International
Speedway is sits on the outskirts of Delaware's capital city in the central
part of the state with a one-mile paved oval track. The same company that
operates Gateway International Raceway in St. Louis, Nashville Speedway,
Memphis Motor sports Park and Nashville Super speedway possesses the Speedway. TRACK INFORMATIONDover International
Speedway is one of the few
tracks, where a minor mistake by one car can pull together a host of others,
causing so much damage to a chassis that many racers have been retired with an
accident. Its turns one and two are so sudden that the car fails to
"grip" the concrete and slide all over the place, but in turns three
and four you will manage to handle the car you. On turn three and four, after a
few laps, the car can be hold as fast as it'll go and just turn. Situated in
the heart of Dover, Delaware is a one-mile track paved track offering plenty of
fast, side-by-side racing. The two
Winston Cup
Source: Dovers Down International Speedway.
Official Website NASCAR 2003 The Dover Downs
International Speedway with 48 feet on straight-aways and 58 feet in turns is
banking with 9 degrees in the straights and 24 degrees in turns. Starting from
9 to 24 degrees scaled at turn entrance and exits. The encircling inside of
track is 10 feet wide on straights and 21 feet in turns. The length of 42-pit
road is 1,150 feet and 43 feet wide installed with water and electric each.
There are total 88 stalls of garages of Winston Cup & Busch with 12 x 25
feet area for offices of technical inspections officials, chief steward and pit
officials - concrete and steel construction.
The total of 525,000 yards of dirt of the tracks were removed and
replaced by 6000 cubic yards of concrete with 6-7" thick over the 32,000
square yard racing surface. The pit road and apron are made of asphalt Pit
boxes, made of concrete for a total of 17 feet wide and 1,200 feet long. The safety wall on main straightaway is 1076
feet long and 399,284 pounds. The 3/8 inch steel boiler plate retaining wall 36
feet high fastened to 7 inch girders imbedded in the earth backed by dirt
banking. Pit Road Steel Barrier are made of the same material backed by 7 feet
steel channel. Infield Areas have been lowered in all turns 1, 2, 3 and 4 to
allow buildings to be below line of sight. SEATING ARRANGEMENTS AND
DETAILING
With more than
250,000 feeding, fueling and foraging fans jam highways the track boasts of
parking lots, supermarkets, restaurants, liquor stores and local airstrips. On
Sundays usually about 135,000 people visit.
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AND TICKETING INFORMATION
Wheelchair Seating: Thickets for Wheelchair seating are available on –line. Tickets can be
obtained within 10 days of the event held for pickup at the Dower Downs
International Speedway Ticket Office "Will Call" window All Sales Final - No Refunds - No Exchanges
Dover Downs International Speedway and/or the sanctioning body of the
particular Event has the sole authorization to change the date and time of the
Event(s). All the buyers are requested to verify the dates and times of the
Event(s) prior to travel or other arrangements in connection with the Event(s). |
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