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- Texas Motor Speedway will task Panasonic once again for the component upgrade to “Big Hoss,” which the company built in four months and completed in March of 2014. The scoreboard will be built where the Texas Motor Speedway branding currently is located on the lower portion of the 12-story high TV on the backstretch. The speedway signage will be relocated to the top of the board.
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- In 1902, Harry Stutz built a small car that used a steering wheel instead of the more common tiller, but it wasn't until 1911—when his first car finished 11th at the inaugural Indy 500, averaging about 68 mph—that he formed his car company.
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- HBF Stadium was built in 1986 with its primary focus being a commitment to help develop elite sport and athletes in their pursuit of excellence.First known as Perth Superdrome and then Challenge Stadium, the stadium acquired its new name in 2014 following a naming rights agreement.To read more click here.BF Stadium. prev next. HBF Stadium was built in 1986 with its primary focus being a commitment to help develop elite sport and athletes in their pursuit of excellence. First known as Perth Superdrome and then Challenge Stadium, the stadium acquired its new name in 2014 following a naming rights agreement.
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- FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- On a day when the weather was more suitable for ducks than racing, the Sprint Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway became NASCAR's first rainout of the season.he season-opening Daytona 500 was stopped for more than six hours, and the race at Bristol Motor Speedway had two delays totaling more than five hours. At least the fans who braved the rain got to enjoy the Robertson family antics. Uncle Si was wearing a sparkly jumpsuit meant to resemble a firesuit.
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Grand Texas Sports and Entertainment District Land for the district was closed on during the summer of 2013. The first phase of construction, scheduled to begin in early 2014, will include clearing land and building infrastructure. Big Rivers Water Park was scheduled to open in April 2015. Grand Texas Theme Park was scheduled to open in December 2015. However plans for the opening were delayed to 2018. The site of Grand Texas was cleared out in 2015 to begin construction.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway Constructed in 1909, it is the original speedway, the first racing facility so named. It has a permanent seating capacity estimated at 257,325, with infield seating raising capacity to an approximate 400,000. It is the highest-capacity sports venue in the world.
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- It was born out of necessity, created hastily following the closure of the Autódromo Ricardo Mejía in 1980. With no other permanent place for people to indulge their passion for speed, it was feared that there would be a rise in illegal street racing and so thoughts soon turned to creating a new facility.
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- In the spring of 1962, the first cars competed on the high banked quarter mile dirt track. In 1969, the high banked dirt was paved and quickly became fastest high banked asphalt track in the region. Highland Rim is now a high banked “D” shaped asphalt track.The Thunder rolls at the Rim every Saturday night from March to November.f you haven’t been to the Rim in a while, take the time to visit one time to see why it is being called “Tennessee’s Family Action Track!” Then come back week after week for the edge-of-your-seat thrills that you can find only at Tennessee’s Family Action Track – Highland Rim Speedway!
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Malcolm Gladwell and 10,000 hours: What does the writer mean? It is something we do have control over — our effort,” Gladwell told AARP magazine in 2008. Ross Tucker, an exercise physiologist at South Africa’s University of Cape Town and the co-founder of a blog called “The Science of Sport,” argues otherwise.
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Grand Texas Theme Park set to open in 2015 Grand Texas Theme Park set to open in 2015. You need Flash to watch this video.Sorry, your browser doesn't support Flash, needs a Flash update, or has Flash disabled. It's called Grand Texas, and if the plans are any indication, the new park in Montgomery County will live up to its name. We first told you last year about developers' plan for a Texas themed amusement park in Montgomery County at Highway 59 and SH 242. We now know the tentative opening date for the water park component is Memorial Day 2015. Plans are to open the amusement park, with designs for five roller coasters, around Memorial Day 2016. Right now $40 million worth of infrastructure is in the early stages of installation.
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- Racing fans know Fort Worth as the home of Texas Motor Speedway, where the stars of NASCAR and IndyCar come to shine. 30 miles away, Dallas garners renown as the more cosmopolitan of the sister cities. “The Big D” has its own eclectic array of world-class museums.
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Splash Amarillo Waterpark Splash Amarillo Waterpark was a family-friendly waterpark located in Amarillo, Texas. It was originally built as FireWater Waterpark in May 2000. It sat on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site just half a mile down Interstate 40 from the Big Texan Steak Ranch.
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- Timeline of Texas History. For Texans, the 20th century did not begin on January 1, 1901, as it did for everyone else. It began nine days later, on Jan. 10, when, spurting drilling pipe, mud, gas and oil, the Lucas No. 1 well blew in at Spindletop near Beaumont.
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Nanotyrannus Nanotyrannus (meaning tiny tyrant) is a problematic genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur. Nanotyrannus is the fourth smallest known tyrannosaurid (with only Dilong Paradoxus, Guanlong wucaii and Proceratosaurus being smaller) and was one of the last tyrannosaurids to before the Cretaceous Teritary Extinction, the K-T event.
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Seabrook Seabrook is also host to the Texas Concours d'Elegance Keels & Wheels classic car and boat show held each year the first weekend in May at Lakewood Yacht Club.[citation needed] The piece of land was purchased by Seabrook W. Sydnor in 1895. In March 1903, the Seabrook Company of Houston created a layout of the proposed Seabrook Town site. The new town attracted fishermen, merchants and even a few residents.
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- H. Clay Earles built Martinsville Speedway in 1947 as a dirt track before the formation of NASCAR. The first race was run on September 7, 1947 and Robert Red Bryon won $500 out of a $2,000 purse. The track hosted the sixth race in the NASCAR series (Strictly Stock) that eventually became the Sprint Cup Series.
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Daytona International Speedway This marked the first time since 1984 that open wheel cars have taken to the track at Daytona. On January 31 – February 1, 2007, IndyCar returned for a full test involving 17 cars.
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Trinity, North Carolina History[edit] The community was named after Trinity College, which later became Duke University. The World's Longest Hot Wheels Track was built at the Kyle Petty Farm in Trinity, North Carolina, on May 9, 1999.
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For AstroWorld, the ride is over Former Houston Mayor Roy Hofheinz opened AstroWorld in 1968 and since then the park has hosted company picnics, concerts and family reunions, and children have stood on their tiptoes to meet the height requirements for roller coasters.
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SeaWorld San Antonio This is a picture of the Shamu show at SeaWorld San Antonio, taken on March 14, 2013. Sea World of Texas was developed by Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Built for $170 million, it opened on Memorial Day weekend in May 27, 1988 and welcomed 75,000 people during the grand opening.
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- FORT WORTH, Texas (June 6, 2016) – “Big Hoss,” the world’s largest TV and Guinness World Record holder that towers over the backstretch of Texas Motor Speedway, is about to get even bigger.
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Texas World Speedway texas world speedway was built in 1969 and is one of only seven superspeedways of two miles 3 km or greater in the united states used for racing the others being indianapolis daytona pocono talladega auto club and michigan there are several tracks of similar size used for vehicle testingexas world speedway was also the site of the 1974 willie nelson s fourth of july picnic with willie nelson and his guests jimmy buffett townes van zandt and kinky friedman performing as well it was also known for a fire that destroyed several cars including one owned by robert earl keen
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Texas State Highway 29 SH 29 was proposed by 1919 on a route from Port O'Connor to Austin. By 1926, it had been extended north and west along the previous SH 20, with a proposed ending in Rocksprings.
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- It alleged violations of anti-trust laws and a reneging of a promise that Texas would get a second race. Whatever the truth, NASCAR settled out of court as part of a general restructuring and sold on North Carolina Motor Speedway to Smith, he in turn transferred its sole NASCAR event to TMS from 2005 onwards.
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. He was partners with a group of investors who were building Alabama Motorsports Park, a Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway. The track was to be located near Mobile, Alabama and would feature stock car racing, kart racing and a road course. This would have joined with his partial ownership of Paducah International Raceway.