Thanks for the ping & the time/work on the threads.
Go Daddy lost $143 million last year and hasn’t made money since 2009. Every million counts, I guess.
Track Specifications:
Track/Race Length: 2.66 mile quad oval, 188 laps, 500.08 miles
Superspeedway: 2.66-mile trioval 48 feet wide (12-foot apron)
Turns: Banking: 33° Length: 3,750 feet Radius: 1,100 feet
Trioval: Banking: 18°
Frontstretch: Chute length: 2,150 feet (from turn to middle of trioval) Total length: 4,300 feet Banking: 16.5°
Backstretch: Length: 4,000 feet Banking: 2°
Pit Road: Length: 3,000 feet; Width: 48 feet
Pit Road Speed: 55mph
Pace Car Speed: 70mph
Grandstand Seating: 78,000 [was 109,000 & 143,231]
Track last paved: Summer 2006
Opened: 1969
Race Festivities/Officials:
Grand Marshal: Senior Airman James A. Sottile, Maxwell AFB
Command to start engines: James A. Sottile
Honorary Starter/Wave Green Flag: Technical Sergeant Jason D. Floyd, Maxwell AFB
Honorary Pace Car Driver: Ole Miss Football Coach Hugh Freeze
Color Guard: TBA
Invocation: Allen Singley, Alabama Raceway Ministries / Student Pastor, Grandview Baptist Church, Dothan, AL.
National Anthem: 313th United States Army Band
Flyover: TBA