Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway
Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway is a motorsport racetrack located at the Nashville Fairgrounds near downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The track is the second-oldest continually operating track in the United States.[1] The track held NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup (now NASCAR Cup Series) races from 1958 to 1984.
"Nashville Speedway" redirects here. For the 1.33 mi (2.14 km) track opened in 2001, see Nashville Superspeedway.Location
15,000
Tennessee State Fairgrounds
Bob Sargent-Track Enterprises, Inc and Randy Dyce D & D Events, Inc.
1904, 1958
1904
- Nashville Speedways (1904–1958)
- Fairgrounds Speedways (1959–1973)
- Nashville Speedway (1974–1978)
- Nashville International Raceway (1979–1983)
- Nashville Raceway (1984–1987)
- Nashville Motor Raceway (1988–1994)
- Nashville Speedway (1995–2001)
- Fairgrounds Speedway at Nashville (2002-2003)
- Music City Motorplex (2004–2009)
- Current:
- Superstar Racing Experience (2021–2022)
- ARCA Menards Series East
- Music City 200 (1992, 2007–2008, 2015–2019, 2021–present)
- Super Late Model
- All American 400 (1981–2010, 2012–present)
- North-South Challenge (2016-present)
- Former:
- NASCAR Winston Cup Series
- Pepsi 420 (1958–1984)
- Coors 420 (1959, 1964–1965, 1973–1984)
- NASCAR Busch Series
- BellSouth Mobility 320 (1984, 1988–1989, 1995–2000)
- NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
- Federated Auto Parts 250 (1996–2000)
- World of Outlaws
- Music City Outlaw Nationals
0.959 km (0.596 miles)
- Turns: 18°
- Straights: 3°
0.40 km (0.25 miles)
Track configuration[edit]
The speedway is currently an 18 degree banked paved oval. The track is 0.596 mi (0.959 km) long. Inside the larger oval is a 1⁄4 mi (0.40 km) paved oval.
The track was converted to a 1⁄2 mi (0.80 km) paved oval in 1957, when it began to be a NASCAR series track. The speedway was lengthened between the 1969 and 1970 seasons. The corners were cut down from 35 degrees to their present 18 degrees in 1972. The track was repaved between the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
Use in gaming[edit]
The track was used in the Grand National Expansion Pack for Sierra's NASCAR Racing 2 game and was later converted for use in NASCAR Racing 1999 Edition, NASCAR4, NASCAR 2002 and NASCAR 2003. In October 2019, iRacing scanned the facility to be added into their service for their 2020 Season 4 release in September 2020. The track is also featured in SRX: The Game, released in 2021.[10][11]