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Kansas Speedway


	Kansas Speedway Track Diagram
		Kansas Speedway 400 Speedway Blvd. Kansas City, KS 66111

One of the newest tracks to the NASCAR family, Kansas Speedway has a great view from every seat and has easy access in and out of the one-mile, state of the art facility. In August of 1997, Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, are selected fas the site for the new speedway. Construction commenced in May of 1999, with the help of NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers Bobby Labonte, Rusty Wallace and Kenny Schrader, along with: NASCAR President Bill France Jr., International Speedway Corporations President and Chieft Operating Officer Jim France, and ISC Executive Vice President Lesa Kennedy. The grandstands seat 81,087 sectators, but will eventually be expanded to 150,000 upon copletion of the final phase of development. The facility has fan-friendly access to 65 rows of seating with a unique ground level concourse that allows spectators to walk down 30 rows or up 36 rows upon entering the grandstand area.

Track Facts Information: Size: 1.5 mile tri-oval suitable for all types of racing Banking: 15 degrees in the turns 10.4 degrees in the front stretch 5 degrees in the back stretch The track pavement width is 55 feet. Location: The speedway is strategically located at the intersection of I-435 and I-70 in Kansas City, Kan., about 15 miles west of downtown Kansas City. Seating Capacity: The track seats nearly 82,000 spectators in the grandstands, but will eventually expand to 150,000 upon completion of the final phase of development. The facility has fan friendly access to 65 rows of seating, with a unique ground level concourse that allows spectators to walk down 30 rows (on grade) or up 35 rows (on structure). Parking: Parking for the facility accommodates more than 65,000 vehicles. Parking is always free at Kansas Speedway. Policy Information: Kansas Speedway sells pre-race pit passes as an upgrade from Sprint FanWalk only. Please call the ticket office for availability. Pre-race pit passes are for Sunday, April 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30, only. Parking at Kansas Speedway is always free. Gate Policies: Kansas Speedway allows one (1) bag no larger than 6x6x12 inches per person. You may bring the following items into the grandstands: Soft sided coolers, no larger than 6x6x12 inches Scanners. If you bring a scanner in a bag, please make sure the bag is 6x6x12 inches or smaller. If your scanner bag is too big, clip the scanner onto your belt or carry it in without a bag. Guests are allowed to bring one (1) bag no larger than 6x6x12 inches. Cameras Camera bags Purses are allowed, as long as they are no larger than 6x6x12 inches. Remember only one bag per person is allowed As of 2007, Outside food and beverages are permitted through Kansas Speedway gates in your 6x6x12-inch cooler. No glass containers are allowed though. Items that may not be brought into our gates: Bags larger than 6x6x12 inches Glass containers Umbrellas Folding chairs Strollers Bicycles Wagons Scooters Roller blades. Fun Facts Throughout a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series weekend at Kansas Speedway, Americrown, who handles all concessions, catering and merchandise for the track, sells more than 31,600 gallons of soda. How far could a NASCAR stock car go on 31,600 gallons of fuel? It could circle the earth 16 times before it had to make a pit stop. That's 129,272 laps around the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway. Race fans eat 14,504 hot dogs on a typical race weekend at the track. That's enough wieners to cover 437 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup stock cars from nose to tail. About 25,000 hamburgers, which equals about 6,615 pounds, are eaten over the course of the weekend. That much meat adds up to 49 Mark Martins, the lightest driver on the NEXTEL Cup circuit at 135 pounds. Around 26,203 gallons of beer is sold. That's enough to fill a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup stock car gas tank 1,191 times. Nearly 250 yards of bratwurst are sold. About 23,200 orders of French fries are sold. About 17 semi-trailers full of bagged ice is used by guests and teams during the NASCAR event in 2001. That's enough pallets of ice to load on 320 fork lifts at one time. Kansas Speedway seats nearly 82,000 spectators in the grandstands, but will eventually expand to 150,000. The facility has fan friendly access to 65 rows of seating, with a unique ground level concourse that allows spectators to walk down 30 rows (on grade) or up 35 rows (on structure). More than 11 million cubic yards of dirt was moved to construct Kansas Speedway. That's enough dirt to fill 1 million dump trucks or an NFL stadium five times. The size of Kansas Speedway's trioval equals the size of eight football fields. The sod covering trioval was transplanted entirely from a field in Lawrence, Kan. The Banquet 400 race logo painted on the infield grass is about the size of a football field. Grass seed in Kansas Speedway's infield was planted at 600 pounds per acre - about three times the normal rate. The grass combination includes a hearty mixture of fescue, bluegrass and perennial rye blended especially for Kansas Speedway. From start to finish, it takes Kansas Speedway's groundskeeping supervisor roughly 70 hours to cut the pattern in the trioval grass. On a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race weekend, Kansas Speedway becomes the fourth-largest city in the state of Kansas. (Wichita is No. 1 at 344,000; Overland Park is No. 2 at 149,000; Kansas City is No. 3 at 146,000.)