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The Daytona Beach and Road Course was a motorsport race track that was instrumental in the formation of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. It originally became famous as the location where 15 world land speed records were set.
Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States, about 50 mi (80 km) north of Orlando. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR as well as its season opening event.
The self-proclaimed 'World Center of Racing', Daytona has been a fixture at the heart of the stock racing calendar since the advent of NASCAR, emerging from Bill France's dream to build something more permanent to replace the hard sands of Daytona Beach to become a multi-use oval and road course catering for more than 100,000 fans.
Learn about the origins and features of the Daytona Road Course, a 3.61-mile paved track with 14 turns that hosts NASCAR and IMSA events. Find out how the track evolved from a beach-road course to a state-of-the-art motorsports facility with a 31-degree highbank.
Latest Races. Daytona Beach has been instrumental in the Land Speed Record and the early days of NASCAR. The venue for Sir Henry Segrave’s 211 mph record on 29 March 1927, the road course liked the tarmac of South Atlantic Avenue (highway A1A) and beachfront sands of Ponce Inlet with 180-degree turns at either end.
The sport wasn't new, but racing on a course which combined a portion of the beach and a public road was. Auto racing history was being written on the sands of Daytona. The original 3.2-mile course had the north turn located near the center of town.
Aug 12, 2020 · Ahead of a quartet of races, here is a turn-by-turn detail of the 14-turn, 3.61-mile course. RELATED: Daytona Road Course schedule. TURN 1. Drivers will take the green flag at the...
