The place To Watch NASCAR This Week:
Friday, Could 9
ARCA Race: Tide 150 (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM at 8 p.m. ET)
Saturday, Could 10
NCTS Follow & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 2 p.m. ET)
NCS Follow & Busch Gentle Pole Qualifying (Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM at 4:30 p.m. ET)
NCTS Race: Coronary heart of Well being Care 200 (FS1, NRN, SiriusXM at 7:30 p.m. ET)
Sunday, Could 11
NCS Race: AdventHealth 400 (FS1 & FOX Deportes, MRN, SiriusXM at 3 p.m. ET)
Historic & Vital Occasions at Kansas Speedway:
· In 1996, Worldwide Speedway Company (now NASCAR) started exploring choices to construct a speedway within the Midwest. Lesa France Kennedy spearheaded the search course of. In 1997, Wyandotte County and Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, had been chosen as the location for the brand new speedway on the intersection of interstates 70 and 435.
· On December 18, 1997, Worldwide Speedway Company (now NASCAR) introduced plans to construct a 1.5 mile speedway to seat roughly 75,000.
· Structure agency HNTB designed the power and Turner Building offered building administration. Building started on the 1,200 acre, 1.5 mile speedway in Could of 1999.
· Completion was focused for 2000 however was delayed by climate and lawsuits from close by landowners. Paving started in September 2000 and the speedway accomplished in early 2001.
· Estimated mission value was $250 million. The speedway had a big affect on the realm even earlier than building was completed. New business and leisure developments sprung up close to the speedway, together with a movie show complicated, an outside retail mall, and accommodations.
· The official opening of Kansas Speedway was in 2001, with the primary occasions being an ARCA Menards Collection race and an ARCA Menards Collection West race on the identical day – June 2.
· The primary NASCAR Cup Collection race was on September 30, 2001. The occasion was gained by Hendrick Motorsport’s driver and NASCAR Corridor of Famer Jeff Gordon (Chevrolet).
· In 2011, the observe held the Kanrocksas Music Competition, a rock music pageant. The occasion was first introduced on April 26, 2011, and was held in August; the inaugural pageant featured acts similar to Eminem, The Flaming Lips, Child Cudi, Primus, and others.
· Following the 2012 STP 400, the observe underwent a large renovation mission that included repaving the observe floor, reconfiguration of the oval, and addition of a brand new infield highway course. NASCAR’s in-house design and building group utilized cutting-edge pc modeling to develop observe geometry with as much as 20 levels of variable banking. Building crews eliminated the present oval observe asphalt pavement and regraded the underlying soil to create the variable banking. Along with the turns, the frontstretch, backstretch and pit highway had been reconstructed.
· The Hollywood On line casino at Kansas Speedway overlooking flip 2 opened February 3, 2012 with 2,000 slot machines, 52 gaming tables and 12 poker tables on a 100,000 square-foot gaming flooring. It additionally options 28,000 square-feet of different facilities together with eating places, golf equipment and nightlife sights.
· The on line casino is estimated to carry 440,000 vacationers per yr and create 1,050 full time jobs elevating the state to a first-class, year-round vacationer vacation spot.
· The within of the $411 million Hollywood On line casino facility is modeled after the golden age of Hollywood. There are hovering columns with ornate scrollwork, video screens rolling historic clips of Grace Kelly and James Stewart and classic film posters of Steve McQueen in “Le Mans” and James Garner in “Grand Prix,” a nod to the motorsports factor of the distinctive partnership.
· Previous to the autumn race in 2015 Kansas Speedway added 1,250 linear toes of SAFER barrier to the backstretch and 525 linear toes to the frontstretch; all outdoors partitions at the moment are protected by SAFER barrier. 1,700 linear toes of barrier was additionally added to the inside partitions on the entry and exit of the corners. In whole Kansas Speedway added a complete of three,475 toes or 6 tenths of a mile of SAFER barrier in 2015.
· Since 2016, the observe has been the host of the American Royal World Collection of BBQ competitors.
· Kansas Speedway is situated within the state of Kansas, 13 miles west of Kansas Metropolis, Mo.
· There have been 38 NASCAR Cup Collection races at Kansas Speedway, one occasion from 2001 – 2010 and two races per yr since 2011.
