These were Texas Motor Speedway (1997), Auto Club (1997), Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1998), Homestead-Miami Speedway (1999), Kansas Speedway (2001) and Chicagoland Speedway (2001). Six tracks debuted from 1997 through 2001.
In the mid-1990s, New Hampshire Motor Speedway (1993), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval (1994) joined.Įditor’s Note: Enjoy 15% off our NEW NBC Sports EDGE+ Subscription this holiday season and get every tool (Fantasy, DFS & Betting) for every game at a great low price. We count the major reconfiguration of Richmond Raceway as a new course and it debuted that same year. It would not be until 1988 that Phoenix Raceway came on board to break up the monotony. In 1974, Pocono Raceway hosted their first race. The result is that fans are getting to see a much greater frequency of new venues that challenge drivers' skills than at any other time in the Modern Era. ISC will completely reconfigure Auto Club Speedway from its current two-miles to a Bristol Motor Speedway style short track. Longstanding contracts with two principal partners, Speedway Motorsports Incorporated (SMI) and International Speedway Corporation (ISC) expired in the past couple of years and the sanctioning body now has the liberty to change the schedules radically – which they have in some imaginative ways.įorward-thinking individuals in both organizations have decided to lease in-demand tracks, such as SMI did in 2021 with the Circuit of the Americas and how they are considering bringing a race to the Nashville Fairgrounds in the near future. If it seems like there have been a lot of inaugural races recently, that is because there have been.
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