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Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance.The time it takes the animal to cover the specified distance is measured and the bird's rate of travel is calculated and compared with all of the other pigeons in the race to determine which animal returned at the highest speed.
Race lap record 1:01.955 ( Daniel Burkett , Swift 016.a , 2014 , Formula Atlantic ) Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (TSMP), formerly Thompson Speedway and Thompson International Speedway , is a motorsports park in Thompson, Connecticut , featuring a 0.625 mi (1.006 km) asphalt oval racetrack and a 1.700 mi (2.736 km) road racing course.
Radford Racing School and the Radford Racing course will remain open after Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park closes. [12] [13] [14] Track officials announced that the track would change the name of the facility to Firebird Motorsports Park which is a reference to the original name of the facility. [15]
The PBS television series MotorWeek records its winter track-testing segments at Roebling Road. [2] The track is a very safe and forgiving track, making it ideal to learn on. It is characterized by large amounts of run-off room and only a single wall. Roebling is unusual in that it is owned by a local racing club, the Buccaneer Region of the ...
The only driver who has won races in three disciplines of racing in Ken Schrader who won in ARCA cars (1998), UMP Modifieds (1998), and midgets. [2] Billy Winn won the first national championship dirt track race held at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in 1934. A.J. Foyt ran his first national championship race there in August 1957.
The "last local track" for auto racing east of the city through the late 1970s was the Colorado Springs International Speedway which "had crowds in the 3,000-4,000 range on summer weekends". [10] The Platte Avenue go-kart track closed c. 1990 , the greyhound track closed c. 2005 and is now an off track betting facility, and the Olympic ...
The track length consists of various configurations, the longest being 6.100 mi (9.817 km) as the longest road course in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The most common configurations range from 1.500 to 2.400 mi (2.414 to 3.862 km) for the driving schools, with other custom configurations for members and track rentals.
The track itself is a 3-mile (4.8 km) long banked road course with 21 total turns. The width of the track is 45 feet (14 m). The track elevation change is 120 feet (37 m) with the highest point being at pit exit and the lowest point on the "backstretch" where the spring fed infield lakes drain into Spirit Creek just outside the track.