Concord NASCAR Race Track

Concord Motorsport Park

Concord Motorsport Park: it’s about the need for speed. In fact, Concord Motorsport Park is one of the fastest short tracks in the country. The USAR Hooters Pro Cup holds one of its most exciting events there each year. Fans from all over the Eastern Seaboard come to Concord Motorsport Park for the North-South Shootout Modified event every fall. Founded in 1982 – Concord is considered the new kid in town (consider, Lowes Motorsport Park was opened in 1959) – starting out as a 4/10th mile “outlaw” dirt oval. The track was paved in 1987 and came under NASCAR sanction the following year. Subsequent to the original construction, the original owner built a 1/4 mile dirt oval next to the original expanded oval, and then extended the original track to 1/2 mile.

Concord Motorsport Park is a complex of three oval tracks located near Concord, North Carolina. The three tracks are a 1/2 mile paved tri-oval, a 1/4 mile paved oval, and a 1/5 mile paved oval. The 1/2 mile track is banked, the banking ranging from 8 degrees at start-finish to 14 degrees in turns 1 and 3. The 1/4 and 1/5 mile ovals are nested one within the other, while the 1/5 mile version is used intermittently. The 1/4 mile track is used for karts as well as some auto races.

Concord Speedway hosts a number of exciting racing series, including the annual USARacing Series and the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. The track is also a popular venue for filming TV commercials, music videos and TV shows.

It’s no secret that Concord Motorsport Park is pretty high banked. There’s really no room for mistakes there. A driver can run within a hairs-breadth of the wall by his own accord or he can be forced to the edge by the onslaught of other traffic. Either way it’s high adrenalin at every turn.