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Texas Motor Speedway Racing School
Racing on the Texas Motor Speedway racetrack is exhilarating, because it is a wide-open,
blazingly fast track that requires good handling. Every turn at Texas has its own personality
and requires its own special handling. Drivers hug the wall on Turn 1, release the throttle,
and apply the brake to get into the corner's groove, then give it more throttle as they round
the middle. They add throttle on the way to Turn 2, where they increase it while taking down
the steering angle. On Turn 3, they hug the outside wall and then start dragging the brake when
they see the corner coming, working toward mid-track and adding more throttle in the middle of
the turn. Turn 4 is a corner where drivers lower their speed and lower their steering angle due
to a fast transition on the dogleg frontstretch, as well as increasing the throttle, staying on
the inside close to the grass for the dogleg straight. For racers that want a drive that will
demand their best, the Dale Jarrett racing experience at Texas Motor Speedway has it all.
“Dale Jarrett gets you out on the track with
other cars and allows you to pass them; that is so much more exciting and fun
than the follow the leader format I have done with other racing schools.…”
Fred Funk, Professional PGA golfer
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Racetrack Specifications Completed: 1960
Length: 1.5 miles
Shape: Quad-oval
Banking: 24° turns, 5°straighaways
Frontstretch length: 2,250 feet
Backstretch length: 1,330 feet
Seating capacity: 212,585
Location: Texas Motor Speedway
3545 Lone Star Circle
Fort Worth, TX 76177
817-215-8500
“It was a thrill of a lifetime for me and I wanted everyone to know how great
it was to be treated so nicely. With Dale's name associated with it, I expected
it to be nothing short of classy and it was.”
Mark Spence
Description of Fort Worth, Texas:
Accommodations:
Hotels:
Transportation:
Alliance Airport General aviation - Official FBO for NASCAR at Texas Motor Speedway (9 minutes)
Limousine service can be arranged
T bus service (free rides on red, white, or blue buses in downtown Fort Worth)
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Restaurants:
Aventino's
Byblos
Cattlemen's Steak House
Joe's Crab Shack
Lonesome Dove Western Bistro
Snooty Pig
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Things To See and Do:
History:
Texas Motor Speedway got its start when NASCAR speedway owner O. Bruton Smith
decided to build a multi-million dollar superspeedway in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area in 1994. Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte, and Bobby Labonte participated
in the groundbreaking ceremony in April of 1995, and construction began in August.
In its original configuration, the speedway had 24 banking for stock cars
and 8 banking for open-wheel cars. The first NASCAR event was held in April
1997, and Mark Martin won the race. In 1998, Turn 4 was reshaped to create
an easier transition between the turns and the front straightaway. In April
of that year, Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s first Busch Series victory took place at Texas
Motor Speedway. A second renovation was then completed to eliminate the dual
banking, and this resulted in the racetrack's current configuration.
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