Lowe's Motor speedway quick facts
Jon Clifton
Thursday August 28 2008, 7:50 PM
Here are some quick facts about Lowe's Motor speedway in Concord, North Carolina.Length: 1.5 miles or 7, 920 feetFront stretch: 1,980 feetBackstretch: 1,500 feetTurns 1 & 2: 2,400 feetTurns 3 & 4: 2,040Radius Turns 1 & 2: 685 feetRadius Turns 3 & 4: 625 feetBanking in corners: 24-degreesBanking is straightaways: 5-degreesSeating capacity: 167,000Suites: 113* There are more than 160 flagpoles located throughout the speedway property.* The speedway has more than 1,900 toilets on property for the fans* Nearly 7,000 trashcans are placed throughout the 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 Bank of America 500 - twice the effort it takes to put on the Super Bowl* Lowe's Motor Speedway spends nearly $800,000 a year on landscaping.* 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 Sprint Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip, a five-time winner of the Coca-Cola 600.