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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

UTC-6 / -5 (DST)

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)

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 14 mi (0.40 km) paved oval.


The track was converted to a 12 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.

1996:

Dave Rezendes

1997:

Jack Sprague

1998:

Jimmy Hensley

1999:

Dennis Setzer

2000:

Randy Tolsma

– 2 time track champion and current car owner

Mike Alexander

– 1996 Rookie of the Year, former weekly competitor

Casey Atwood

– regular weekly competitor

Bunkie Blackburn

– 4 time track champion

Joe Buford

– 2 time track champion and current car owner

Chad Chaffin

– 2006 track champion

Mark Day

– 1-time champion

Jeff Green

NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver, competing in the Pro Late Model series and Super Truck series with two wins in 2019

Clay Greenfield

– 2 time track champion (plus 2-time champion in a lower division)

Bobby Hamilton

– 3 time track champion

Andy Kirby

– 4 time track champion

Coo Coo Marlin

– Grandson of Coo Coo Marlin, son of Sterling Marlin, former Busch series driver, former weekly competitor

Steadman Marlin

– 3 time track champion, former weekly competitor

Sterling Marlin

Steve Spencer – 1 time track Champion, Rookie of the Year, Tennessee State Champion, track record holder

– 1 time track champion, former weekly competitor

Jimmy Means

Harold Ferguson – 1 time track champion, former weekly competitor

[8]

– former weekly competitor

Jeremy Mayfield

– ran the full 2000 season

Chase Montgomery

– became the first woman to ever lead a NASCAR sanctioned series when the young woman climbed to the top of the points standings at Fairgrounds Speedway at Nashville.[9]

Deborah Renshaw

– 2 time track champion

Darrell Waltrip

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]

– Soccer stadium opened in 2022 located adjacent to the speedway.

Geodis Park

Official website

from Speedway Motorsports

Restore Nashville Fargrounds Speedway

Nashville420.com – NASCAR Races 1958–1984

Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway at Racing Reference