Location
4790 W. 16th St.
Speedway, IN 46222

 

Track Details

Completed : 1909
Distance : 2.5 miles
Shape : Oval
Banking : 9° turns, 0° straights

Frontstretch : 3,330 feet
Backstretch : 3,330 feet
Seating : 257,000+

 

Perhaps more known throughout the world for it’s famous open wheel race, the Indianapolis 500, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the second oldest surviving automobile race track. Built in 1909, for a cost of $3 million has a seating capacity of 257,000 and with the infield brings the total capacity to over 400,000 race fans. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the first speedway to use the word “speedway” in its name and is the largest sporting facility in the world with the most seating.

 

Shortly after a disastrous inaugural race in 1909 of ten miles long when drivers and spectators were seriously injured due to the track surface, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was resurfaced with 3.2 million paving bricks which is why today the speedway is known as “The Brickyard”. Only three feet of the original bricks are still in tact today at the start/finish line.

 

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a 2.5 mile almost rectangular oval whose dimensions have remained virtually unchanged since 1909. What has changed is the grounds that have expanded from the original 320 acres to today’s size of 559 acres. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the only automobile racing facility to be denoted as a National Historic Landmark.

 

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