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Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis, erst known as Indianapolis Raceway Park, is the bag of USAC, NHRA, and NASCAR races apiece season. Built in 1958, the artefact is bag to a quarter-mile inspire field and a 0.686-mile oval, as substantially as a 2.5-mile agency course.

The facility’s inspire field is incorporated into the segment of the agency course, and hosts the Labor Day weekend MAC Tools NHRA US Nationals. The conic agency hosts the USAC Midget Series “Night Before the 500” vie and the NASCAR Nationwide Series “Night Before the 400 race, as substantially as another events in both series. The agency instruction hosts SCCA events.

The main events schedule for 2011 on the conic include the USAC Midget vie on Saturday, May 28th, which also features the US F2000 and Star Mazda Series, and Kroger SpeedFest, Thursday finished Saturday, July 28th finished 30th â€" SpeedFest features the ARCA Racing Series and USAC Silver Crown and Midget Series on Thursday night, NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series on weekday night, and the Nationwide Series on Sat night. The main event for the inspire field is the 2011MAC Tools NHRA US Nationals, Thursday finished Monday, September 1st finished 5th. Tickets for the NHRA and NASCAR weekends are now acquirable at www.lucasoilraceway.com.

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