Texas Motor Speedway – Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of Fort Worth, Texas in Denton County. The reconfigured track measures 1.500 mi (2.414 km) with a banked 20° in turns 1 and 2 and banked 24° in turns 3 and 4. Texas Motor Speedway is a quad-oval design, where the front straightaway juts outward slightly. The track layout is similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway. The track is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc. Nicknamed “The Great American Speedway“ the racetrack facility is one of the largest motorsports venues in the world capable of hosting crowds in excess of 200,000 spectators.
Texas Motor Speedway also is home to the Vankor Texas Sprint Car Nationals, Good Guys Lone Star Nationals Car Show, Pate Swap Meet, Friday Night Drags, and much more.
Events
On June 14, 1997, Texas Motor Speedway hosted the Fruit of the Loom CountryFest for an estimated 185,000 spectators. Featured performers were Jo Dee Messina, Bryan White, Wynonna Judd, Vince Gill, The Charlie Daniels Band, Hank Williams Jr., LeAnn Rimes, Travis Tritt, and Randy Travis.
On June 21, 1997, Texas Motor Speedway hosted the Blockbuster Rock Fest where an estimated 385,000 fans bought tickets and attended. The 15-hour plus and 16-band concert featured the likes of Bush, No Doubt, Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Jewel, the Wallflowers, the Counting Crows, Third Eye Blind, Sugar Ray, Paula Cole as well as many others. Because fans started arriving the night before, VH1 organized a kickoff concert on that Friday night. The concert remains one of the top-attended concerts ever.
Ongoing classes and events are held regularly at the facility, such as the Texas Driving Experience and Team Texas.
The Traxxas TORC Series held the series’ first off-road racing event in 2009 at Texas Motor Speedway. The 0.4-mile clay oval at the facility was transformed by adding jumps and whoops. Winners in the two-race weekend were: Pro-4 winner Rick Huseman won twice; Pro-2 events were claimed by Ricky Johnson and Scott Taylor; and Pro Lite class winners were Marty Hart and Casey Currie. It was the only TORC event held at the track as of 2013.
In June 2017, the track hosted the Stadium Super Trucks as a support event for IndyCar. The series raced on a dirt track consisting of the infield, pit road, and the front stretch. To promote the event, the speedway’s turn two featured an off-road expo nicknamed the “Off-Road Ruckus”, allowing visitors to drive their off-road vehicles along an obstacle course and observe exhibits.
The first annual Christian alt-rock festival FortyFest was held at the Texas Motor Speedway “Little Texas” facility in August 2010.
Texas Motor Speedway made an unsuccessful overture to move the annual Texas-Oklahoma rivalry football game from the Cotton Bowl to the infield of the modern racing facility in 2004.