Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly known as the Atlanta International Raceway from 1960 to 1990) is a 1.540 mi (2.478 km) quad-oval intermediate speedway in Hampton, Georgia. The track has hosted a variety of sanctioning bodies since its inaugural season of racing in 1960, including NASCAR and IndyCar .

Oct 1, 2010 · On July 31, 1960, 25,000 people turned out for the first race, the Dixie 300. Furman Bisher, ninety-one, recently retired as a sports columnist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He covered...

4 days ago · Things changed for the better in 1990 when Bruton Smith purchased it and renamed it Atlanta Motor Speedway. Under him, the track was massively expanded and began playing host to multiple other racing series apart from NASCAR. One after the other, the financial issues were resolved, and a new era dawned. The 850-acre property is today one of the ...

The track, also known as Atlanta Motor Speedway, Candler Raceway, Automobile Speedway, and Atlanta Raceway, cost about $400,000 to build and opened on November 9, 1909. This postcard, postmarked November 14, 1909, shows a fanciful, not-entirely-accurate artist's representation of …

2 days ago · Only three of the original seven; Darlington Raceway, Daytona International Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway are still in operation. But, the Atlanta track's future was hazy in the 1960s and '70s, when it suffered several financial setbacks.

Atlanta Motor Speedway—man, if those walls could talk, they’d have some stories to tell. This track’s been through it all: near-bankruptcy lows, make-or-break moments, and a comeback that ...

Jun 5, 2020 · NASCAR Hall of Famer Bruton Smith (2016) purchased Atlanta International Raceway in 1990, renaming it Atlanta Motor Speedway. Seven years later Smith had the racing surface reconfigured to a 1.54-mile quad oval with a pair of doglegs on the front straightaway.

3 days ago · When Atlanta Motor Speedway was reconfigured in 2022, it was touted as a track that would provide superspeedway racing similar to that fans are used to seeing at Daytona International Speedway and ...

Atlanta Speedway big-time racing was short-lived but the results showcased the star drivers and automobiles of the day. Eventually, the grounds became the beginnings of an airfield. Today it is one of the world’s major airports, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Planned in 1958 by Walker Jackson, Lloyd Smith, Garland Bagley, Ralph Sceiano and Ike Supporter, the Atlanta International Speedway just south of Atlanta was to become the 7 th Super Speedway of the time in Nascar.