TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

Called as a motor sports haven along the historic Chisholm Trail in Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) is a second largest and third largest in the world sports facility in US having the seating capacity of 150,061-seats featuring 194 skybox VIP suites. It represents the pinnacle in luxury for fans of auto racing.

 

HISTORY OF TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

The top promoter, marketer and sponsor of motor sports activities in the United States Speedway Motor sports Inc (SMI) is the owner and operator Texas Motor Speedway along with Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Lowe's Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Infineon Raceway at Sonoma. SMI uses its 600 Racing subsidiary to manufacture and sell smaller-scale, modified racing vehicles and parts, for operating and sanctioning the entry-level racing series such as the Legends Car, Bandolero Car and the Thunder Roadster racing circuits. SMI also owns Performance Racing Network which airs motor sports events and programming to more than 750 stations nationwide. After sales services is provided through its SMI Properties subsidiary.

 

Built in 1994, the Speedway features seating arrangements for over 150,000 visitors. The NASCAR Winston Cup Series at Bruton Smith's Texas Motor Speedway was quite similar to its sister track, Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) as both of the tracks having a double dog-leg frontstretch, two short chutes connecting both sides of the start/finish line straightaway and banking with 24-degree in turns.

 

Soon, the difference between the two tracks emerged. The turns were longer compared to Lowe's track and allowed the cars to bring more speed through the corners. The chassis setups and gearing used at Lowe’s course were no longer useful at Texas and the tires were subjected to more wear. The inaugural event was ruin by rain for three days. Qualifying was abandoned as the Texas Motor Speedway was new to the program so the teams had more time to practice on the tricky track. Dale Jarrett was assigned the pole position in the inaugural race.

 

13 out of the 43 car starting field were crashed, on the first lap, as they entered Turn 1. Surprisingly only one driver Darrell Waltri was suffered severely and retired. He was only driver presented at the Winston Cup to win a race at Texas World Speedway in 1979. The first series winner of the first NASCAR Winston Cup Series held at Texas Motor Speedway was Jeff Burton. Roush Racing teammate, Mark Martin won in 1998, and in 1999 "Texas Terry" Labonte of Lone Star state obtained the victory under the caution flag.

 

The Speedway boasts of unbelievable trivia like eight Texas Stadiums (Dallas Cowboys stadium) in its infield. The permanent lighting system of the speedway is sufficient enough to illuminate 11 NFL football stadiums. With the capacity to accommodate nearly 155,000 audiences in the grandstands, the roar of the engines over the screaming of the fans as they cheer their favorite NASCAR drivers around the 1.5-mile track is barely audible.

 

TRACK INFORMATION

The 1.5 oval Texas Motor Speedway is a 4/10 mile dirt track oval with banking at 24-degree and 750 feet in the turns with the total seating arrangements of 204,861-seats. The length of straight-aways is 70 feet wide with 8 degree banking and 80 feet wide with 10 degree banking in the corners. The length of front stretch and back stretch is 2,250 feet and 1,330 feet respectively. With seat facility at the grandstand of 154,861, the total infield capacity is approximately 53,000. The speedway also possesses 194 with seating for 13,192 luxury suites along with 42 pit stalls. Featuring 66 rows in the front straight-aways of grandstand with 121,861 seating arrangements and 35 rows with the 33,000 seating capacity of back straight at grandstand has been built to facilitate the fans. The Speedway’s media center is built on 2,232 square feet of area. The races at TMS have a wide variety of race classes including Sprint Cars, IMCA Modified Cars, SIMS/ULMA Limited Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, Street Stocks, Mini-Stocks, Bombers and Jr. Minis. Every Saturday night, regular racing events are held. TMS provides racing entertainment for the entire family along with great concession food. Texas Motor Speedway is situated 20 miles East of Dallas on I-30 in Royse City, Texas.

Track Information
Track Dimension	1.5 Oval Shaped
Legends Oval	¼ miles
Track Width	58 feet
Track Turns	750 feet radius
Banking	24-degree banking – straight banks five degree
Length of Front Stretch	2,250 feet
Length of Back Stretch	1,330 feet
Pit Road	42 pit stalls
Seating Information
Permanent Grandstand	154,861
Infield capacity	Approx. 53,000
Total estimated Capacity	204,861
Front straightaway grandstand	66 rows, 121,861 capacity
Back straight grandstand	35 rows, 33,000 capacity
Luxury Suites	194 with seating for 13,192
Media Center	Total of 2,232 sq. feet
Dirt Track
Oval Shape	4/10-mile, clay surface
Lights	State-of-the-art Musco Lighting
Seating	15,000 permanent seats
Straight-aways	70' wide with 8-degree banking
Corners	80' wide with 10-degree banking

 

SEATING ARRANGEMENT AND DETAILING

 

 

 

 

 

 

TICKETING INFORMATION

 

Call us at 800.279.4444 to order the Texas Motor Speedway tickets. Online purchase are also provided by the Speedway.