Indianapolis Speedway
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  Aerial photo of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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| Location | Speedway, Indiana |
| Time zone | UTC−5 / −4 (DST) |
| Capacity | 235,000 (permanent seats) - 400,000 grand total |
| Owner | Hulman and Co. |
| Operator | Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation (subsidiary of Hulman and Co.) |
| Address | 4790 West 16th Street |
| Broke ground | March 15, 1909 |
| Opened | August 12, 1909 |
| Construction cost | $3 million ($73 million 2016 dollars) |
| Architect | Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, F. H. Wheeler, and Arthur Newby |
| Major events |
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| Rectangular oval track | |
| Surface | Asphalt and Brick |
| Length | 2.500 mi (4.023 km) |
| Turns | 4 |
| Banking | Turns: 9.2° Straights: 0° |
| Lap record | 37.895, 237.498 mph 382.216 km/h (Arie Luyendyk, Treadway Racing, 1996, IRL IndyCar Series) |
| Grand Prix road course (2000–2007) | |
| Surface | Asphalt and Brick |
| Length | 2.605 mi (4.192 km) |
| Turns | 13 |
| Lap record | 1:10.399, 133.546 mph 214.921 km/h (Rubens Barrichello, Scuderia Ferrari, 2004, Formula One) |
| Grand Prix road course (2008–2013) | |
| Surface | Asphalt and Brick |
| Length | 2.534 mi (4.078 km) |
| Turns | 13 |
| Grand Prix road course (2014–) | |
| Surface | Asphalt and Brick |
| Length | 2.439 mi (3.925 km) |
| Turns | 13 |
| Motorcycle course | |
| Surface | Asphalt and Brick |
| Length | 2.621 mi (4.218 km) |
| Turns | 16 |
| Lap record | 1:31.619, 101.781 mph 163.800 km/h (Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda, 2013, MotoGP) |
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway under construction
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| Location | 4790 W. 16th St., Speedway, Indiana |
| Coordinates | 39°47′54″N 86°13′58″W / 39.79833°N 86.23278°WCoordinates: 39°47′54″N 86°13′58″W / 39.79833°N 86.23278°W |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architect | Andrews, Park Taliaferro |
| Architectural style | Motor racing circuit |
| NRHP Reference # | 75000044 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 7, 1975 |
| Designated NHLD | February 27, 1987 |
| Website | www |
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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is an automobile racing circuit located in Speedway, Indiana, (an enclave suburb of Indianapolis) in the United States. It is the home of the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400, and formerly the home of the United States Grand Prix. It is located on the corner of 16th Street and Georgetown Road, approximately six miles (10 km) west of Downtown Indianapolis.
Constructed in 1909, it is the original speedway, the first racing facility so named. It has a permanent seating capacity estimated at 235,000 with infield seating raising capacity to an approximate 400,000. It is the highest-capacity sports venue in the world.
Considered relatively flat by American standards, the track is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) rectangular oval with dimensions that have remained essentially unchanged since its construction. It has two 5⁄8-mile-long (1,000 m) straightaways, four geometrically identical 1⁄4-mile (400 m) turns, connected by two 1⁄8-mile (200 m) short straightaways, termed "short chutes", between turns 1 and 2, and between turns 3 and 4.
A modern infield road course was completed in 2000, incorporating part of the oval, including the mainstretch and the southeast turn, measuring 2.605 miles (4.192 km). In 2008, and again in 2014, the road course layout was modified to accommodate motorcycle racing, as well as to improve competition. Altogether, the current grounds have expanded from an original 320 acres (1.3 km2) on which the speedway was first built to cover an area of over 559 acres (2.3 km2). Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, it is the only such site to be affiliated with automotive racing history.
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