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Kansas Speedway
Kansas City, Kansas
Throughout a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series weekend at
Kansas Speedway, Americrown, who handles all concessions, catering and
merchandise for the track, sells more than 31,600 gallons of soda. How
far could a NASCAR stock car go on 31,600 gallons of fuel? It could
circle the earth 16 times before it had to make a pit stop. That's
129,272 laps around the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway.
Race fans eat 14,504 hot dogs on a typical race weekend at the track.
That's enough wieners to cover 437 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup stock cars from
nose to tail.
About 25,000 hamburgers, which equals about 6,615 pounds, are eaten over
the course of the weekend. That much meat adds up to 49 Mark Martins,
the lightest driver on the NEXTEL Cup circuit at 135 pounds.
Around 26,203 gallons of beer is sold. That's enough to fill a NASCAR
NEXTEL Cup stock car gas tank 1,191 times.
Nearly 250 yards of bratwurst are sold.
About 23,200 orders of French
fries are sold.
Kansas Speedway specialty food: Chicken Spiedini; Oklahoma Joe's
Barbecue, a must-have of Bill France's when he comes to town; and
Boulevard Beer, a beer brewed right here in Kansas City.
About 17 semi-trailers full of bagged ice is used by guests and teams
during the NASCAR event in 2001. That's enough pallets of ice to load on
320 fork lifts at one time.
Some 2,500 Americrown employees log 100,000 hours to feed the thousands
of race fans during a typical weekend at the track.
Kansas Speedway seats nearly
82,000 spectators in the grandstands, but will eventually expand to
150,000. The facility has fan friendly access to 65 rows of seating,
with a unique ground level concourse that allows spectators to walk down
30 rows (on grade) or up 35 rows (on structure).
More than 11 million cubic
yards of dirt was moved to construct Kansas Speedway. That's enough dirt
to fill 1 million dump trucks or an NFL stadium five times.
The Sears Tower in Chicago could be laid end-to-end 45 times to equal
the amount of storm sewer pipe used in Kansas Speedway's infrastructure.
The size of Kansas Speedway's trioval equals the size of eight football
fields. The sod covering trioval was transplanted entirely from a field
in Lawrence, Kan.
The Banquet 400 race logo painted on the infield grass is about the size
of a football field.
Grass seed in Kansas
Speedway's infield was planted at 600 pounds per acre - about three
times the normal rate. The grass combination includes a hearty mixture
of fescue, bluegrass and perennial rye blended especially for Kansas
Speedway.
From start to finish, it takes
Kansas Speedway's groundskeeping supervisor roughly 70 hours to cut the
pattern in the trioval grass.
On a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race weekend, Kansas Speedway becomes the
fourth-largest city in the state of Kansas. (Wichita is No. 1 at
344,000; Overland Park is No. 2 at 149,000; Kansas City is No. 3 at
146,000.)
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