Nascar races on all sorts of tracks, from short to long, oval to road course, concrete to asphalt. Here’s a bi-weekly look at all the tracks of Nascar’s National Touring Series.
BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY (original layout)
0.533 mile concrete short track
Opened 1961
Lights? Yes
Series: Cup, Xfinity, Trucks
Nicknames: The Last Great Colosseum, The World’s Fastest Half-Mile, A Football Stadium Twice
THREE FUN FACTS:
1. Bristol was the first Nascar Cup track to switch from asphalt to concrete, doing so in 1992. As any of you who’ve driven on both know, this changed the noise of the track from “rrrrr” to “AHHHHHH”.
2. Bristol is the only motorsports facility to feature a center-hung scoreboard (known as Colossus), mostly because you’d have to be insane to try it anywhere else.
3. The centerpiece fall race used to be sponsored by Sharpie, inundating the Nascar fanbase with that horrible “Gimme my Sharpie dude” commercial. *shudder*
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