Track Facts

Lowe's Motor Speedway
Harrisburg, NC

Sprint Cup Series Race Date: May 17, 2008
Race Name: NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Quad Oval
Frontstretch: 1,980 feet
Backstretch: 1,500 feet
Turns 1 & 2: 2,400 feet
Turns 3 & 4: 2,040 feet
Radius Turns 1 & 2: 685 feet
Radius Turns 3 & 4: 625 feet
Banking in corners: 24 degrees
Banking in straightaways: 5 degrees
Seating capacity: 165,000

• Lowe's Motor Speedway was designed and built in 1959.
• The first World 600 was run at LMS on June 19, 1960.
• In 1984 Lowe's Motor Speedway became the only sports facility in America to offer year-round living accommodations when it built 40 condominiums high above turn one.
• The LMS complex also includes a 2.25-mile road course and a six-tenths-mile karting layout in the speedway's infield; a quarter-mile asphalt oval utilizing part of the speedway's frontstretch and pit road; and a one-fifth-mile oval located outside turn three of the superspeedway.
• The motion picture "Days of Thunder" was filmed at LMS.

NASCAR and the NASCAR logo are registered trademarks of the National Association for Stock Car Racing, Inc.