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		Lowe's Motor Speedway 5555 Concord Parkway South Concord NC 28027

Lowe's Motor Speedway was designed and built in 1959 by current chairman O. Bruton Smith. The late Curtis Turner, one of stock car racing's earliest driving stars, was Smith's business partner. At the time Smith, a native of Oakboro, N.C., was an automobile dealer and short-track stock car racing promoter at Concord Motor Speedway and the Charlotte Fairgrounds. Turner, a Virginian who amassed his money in the lumber industry, became one of the first drivers on the NASCAR circuit after the sanctioning body debuted in 1949. Together, they built their dream of a 1.5-mile superspeedway on the outskirts of The Queen City and, on June 19, 1960, the first World 600 was run at the new facility. By 1975 Smith had again become the majority stockholder in the speedway, regaining control of its day-to-day operations. He hired current president H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler as general manager and the two began to implement plans for needed improvements and expansion. During the ensuing years, Smith and Wheeler demonstrated a commitment to customer satisfaction, building a facility that continuously established new industry standards.Thousands of grandstand seats and luxury suites were built. Food concessions and restroom facilities were added and modernized to increase the comfort of race fans. Under the watchful eye of Smith and direction of Wheeler, in 1984 Lowe's Motor Speedway became the only sports facility in America to offer year-round living accommodations when it built 40 condominiums high above turn one. Twelve additional condominium units were added in 1991. Another innovation implemented by Smith and Wheeler was a $1.7 million, 1,200-fixture permanent lighting system developed by MUSCO Lighting of Oskaloosa, Iowa. The revolutionary lighting process uses mirrors to simulate daylight without glare, shadows or obtusive light poles. The lighting system was installed in 1992, allowing Lowe's Motor Speedway to be the first modern superspeedway to host night auto racing. In May 2000, a state-of-the-art four-tenths-mile clay oval The Dirt Track @ Lowe's Motor Speedway was completed across Highway 29 from the speedway. The stadium-style facility has nearly 15,000 seats and plays host to the Dirt Late Model, Modifieds, Sprint Cars, Monster Truck and more. Smith and Wheeler will quickly point out they have yet to complete their vision, and they continue to improve and expand the facility. Building on the basic philosophy of keeping spectator and competitor comfort a high priority, Lowe's Motor Speedway continues to be a leading promoter and marketer of motorsports activities in the United States.

Track Facts Information: Length: 1.5 miles or 7, 920 feet Frontstretch: 1,980 feet Backstretch: 1,500 feet Turns 1 & 2: 2,400 feet Turns 3 & 4: 2,040 Radius Turns 1 & 2: 685 feet Radius Turns 3 & 4: 625 feet Banking in corners: 24-degrees Banking is straightaways: 5-degrees Seating capacity: 167,000 Suites: 113 Policy Information: Items That Are Prohibited Inside Gate Area: No umbrellas of any kind No glass bottles No strollers (inside grandstand area) No bags/Backpacks over 14 x 14 x 14 No coolers over 14" x 14" No pets (unless they are service animals helping guests with disabilities No weapons, including, but not limited to, firearms, knives, and impact weapons No skateboards, roller skates, or scooters No bicycles, mopeds, etc. No beach balls, balloons, etc. No signs or banners No horns, whistles, or other loud items Lowe's Motor Speedway will not be responsible for items left in the speedway or around gate areas! Items left in or around the admission gates will be removed and discarded. Fun Facts There are more than 160 flagpoles located throughout the speedway property. The speedway has more than 1,900 toilets on property for it's fans. Nearly 7,000 trash cans are placed throughout speedway property to collect the 400 tons of trash that will be generated during a NASCAR event weekend. Three 30-foot truckloads of paper products (paper towels/toilet paper) will be used at race time. It takes 6,000 people and more than 100,000 hours of work to carry out the UAW-GM Quality 500 - twice the effort it takes to put on the Super Bowl. Lowe's Motor Speedway spends nearly $800,000 a year on landscaping to make sure the grounds look nice for its visitors. Lowe's Motor Speedway ground crews use more 35 tractors and 21 lawn mowers to keep the speedway's nearly 2,000 acres manicured. On Coca-Cola 600 race day, the nearly 180,000 people at Lowe's Motor Speedway make it the fourth largest city in North Carolina behind Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro. The land Lowe's Motor Speedway now occupies was the site of a working plantation during the Civil War. George Washington ate lunch and rested in a house that once served as the speedway's office. The small one-fifth-mile paved oval located outside the turn -three tunnel is known as "Outback Speedway," because it's located "outback." The inner perimeter road around Lowe's Motor Speedway is named in honor of three-time NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip, a five-time winner of the Coca-Cola 600.