Texas Motor Speedway

Located in the heart of "Cow Country," Texas Motor Speedway brought Nextel Cup racing back to the Lone Star state in 1997.

Very similar in configuration to Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, one of its sister tracks, Texas Motor Speedway is a 1.5-mile quad oval that features 24-degree banking in the four turns and 5-degree banking on the straights. Located at 3601 Highway 144, west of I-35W in Jasper (near Fort Worth), Texas Motor Speedway opened in 1996 under the banner of Speedway Motorsports, Inc.

In the intervening years, Texas Motor Speedway has overcome early problems with water seepage through the asphalt surface and lack of a second racing groove to become one of the Nextel Cup Series, most exciting race tracks. Texas Motor Speedway has hosted an April Cup each year since 1997, when Jeff Burton won the inaugural Interstate Batteries 500.

Texas Motor Speedway has sent a different winner to Victory Lane for each of the Winston-Nextel Cup events held to date. Roush drivers Jeff Burton and Mark Martin won the first two races in Fords. Terry Labonte in 1999 and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2000 evened the score for Chevrolet with a pair of victories. It was Ford again in 2001, when Dale Jarrett beat Steve Park to the checkered flag. In 2002, Matt Kenseth became the third different driver from the Roush stable to win in Cow Town. In capturing the pole for the 2002 Samsung/Radio Shack 500, Bill Elliott smashed Terry Labonte's previous qualifying record by more than two miles per hour in posting an average speed of 194.224.

Uniquely, the first Winston Cup race on this circuit had no pole winner, but gave the 30 places in the field to the top 30 cars in the points standings.

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