Charlotte Motor Speedway
6 p.m. ET Sunday, FOX
For more than 60 years, Charlotte Motor Speedway has set the standard for motorsports entertainment and evolved into “America’s Home for Racing.” Nestled in the heart of NASCAR country, the iconic superspeedway is the only race vacation destination where fans can immerse themselves in the sport by taking in an event at the legendary facility, visit race team shops and explore the NASCAR Hall of Fame in the same weekend.
CMS BY THE NUMBERS
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
Facility capacity: 95,000
Suites: 57
CMS FUN FACTS
• President George Washington ate lunch and rested in a house that once served as the speedway’s offices.
• During a typical race weekend, fans consume more than 34,000 slices of pizza, 9,500 gallons of soda and water, 13,500 feet of hot dogs and 309,000 pounds of ice.
• Charlotte Motor Speedway became the first modern superspeedway to host night racing in 1992.
• In 2011, Charlotte Motor Speedway set a Guinness World Record with the debut of the world’s largest HDTV at a sports venue, spanning nearly 16,000 square feet of viewing pleasure for fans.