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TRACK
SPECIFICATIONS
Length:
1.54-miles
Shape: quad-oval
Racing Surface:
55 to 60 feet wide
Turns: Approximately one-half
mile, banked 24 degrees
Straightaways: Approximately one-quarter
mile, banked five degrees
Pit Road: 1320 feet
Originally Built: 1960
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The
Atlanta Motor Speedway's motto, "Where Champions are Crowned," is
literally true. Each year, AMS hosts two races in the NASCAR Winston
Cup circuit, including a season final 500 mile competition that traditionally
decides the Winston Cup winner.
There aren't many days out of the year when the Atlanta Motor Speedway
is quiet. The track is often used by driving schools, movie and television
productions, corporate promotions and a wide variety of civic and
cultural groups. And when it's not hosting the Winston Cup, the AMS
still offers up an unrivaled motorsports menu, hosting distinguished
races like the NASCAR Busch Grand National, Automobile Racing Club
of America, Historic Sports Car Racing Association and Sports Car
Club of America.
These days the Atlanta Motor Speedway is a blazing 1.54-mile quad-oval,
but the site began life as a 1.522-mile oval speedway. In the track's
inaugural 1960 event, the late, great Fireball Roberts won the Dixie
300.
The Atlanta Motor Speedway simulation is open to all drivers, including
novices.
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