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re: Jeff Gordon's last year for a championship
Posted on 1/22/15 at 10:00 am to LeonPhelps
Posted on 1/22/15 at 10:00 am to LeonPhelps
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I've never understood the appeal of watching cars go around in an oval not once but 500 freaking times.
No race that I know of goes 500 laps
Posted on 1/22/15 at 10:02 am to TbirdSpur2010
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No race that I know of goes 500 laps
I thought Daytona 500 meant 500 laps, no?
Posted on 1/22/15 at 10:05 am to TbirdSpur2010
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No race that I know of goes 500 laps
Posted on 1/22/15 at 10:16 am to TbirdSpur2010
quote:Bristol races go 500 laps. Martinsville races go 500 laps. Richmond races go 400 laps.
No race that I know of goes 500 laps
ETA: what he said up there ^^. Tracks of a mile in length or more are based on miles (Daytona 500, Brickyard 400, etc.) Depending on the size of the track, the number of laps to make up the miles will vary (200 laps at Daytona gives you 500 miles while 325 laps at Atlanta give you 500).
Short tracks (less than a mile) are based on number of laps - Bristol 500, Martinsville 500, Richmond 400. The actual distance varies based on the track size (Martinsville and Bristol are half miles so 500 laps is only 250 miles; actually a little more at Bristol because it is a little more than a half mile).
A couple of races (the two road courses and Phoenix) are listed as kilometer races. For example, the Phonix race is the Camping World 500, but is 312 laps on a 1 mile track, and 312 miles = 500 kilometers.
This post was edited on 1/22/15 at 10:23 am
Posted on 1/22/15 at 11:32 am to TbirdSpur2010
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quote: I've never understood the appeal of watching cars go around in an oval not once but 500 freaking times. No race that I know of goes 500 laps
Cmon Tbird, you know that both races at Bristol/Martinsville do
Posted on 1/22/15 at 9:35 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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No race that I know of goes 500 laps
The Food City 500 is an annual 500-lap, 266.5-mile (428.89 km) NASCAR Sprint Cup points race held at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. This is one of two NASCAR races held at Bristol, the other being the Irwin Tools Night Race, and is considered one of NASCAR's best races.
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