Pikes Peak International Raceway
 
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| Location | 16650 Midway Ranch Road, Fountain, Colorado, 80817 |
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| Coordinates | 38°35′29.85″N 104°40′34.39″W / 38.5916250°N 104.6762194°WCoordinates: 38°35′29.85″N 104°40′34.39″W / 38.5916250°N 104.6762194°W |
| Capacity | 10,000 40,000 |
| Owner | Pikes Peak International Raceway, LLC |
| Opened | 1997 |
| Construction cost | $50 million |
| Major events | USAC Silver Crown Series |
| Oval & Road Course | |
| Surface | Asphalt |
| Length | 1.00 mi (1.61 km) |
| Turns | 4 |
| Banking | 10° |
| Road Course | |
| Surface | Asphalt |
| Length | 1.30 mi (2.09 km) |
| Turns | 9 |
| Banking | varying |
| Short Oval | |
| Surface | Asphalt |
| Length | 0.25 mi (0.40 km) |
| Turns | 4 |
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Pikes Peak International Raceway (PPIR) is a racetrack in a Colorado Springs annexed area of the Fountain, Colorado, postal zone that by October 12, 1997, was "the fastest 1-mile paved oval anywhere". The speedway hosted races in several series including the Indy Racing League and 2 NASCAR series (Busch and Truck) until operations were suspended 2005–08. A wide variety of amateur racing groups use PPIR for racing and training, and many NASCAR teams use PPIR for testing (the design is similar to the California Speedway in Fontana.) PPIR Is more similar to Phoenix International Raceway than Fontana Raceway.
Racing in the Pikes Peak Region included 19th century horse tracks (e.g., to the west of Colorado Springs' Palmer House along Fountain Creek by 1882 and to the north by 1903, the "Roswell Racing Park"), and the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb started in 1916 on the 1915 Pikes Peak Highway. In 1938, a track was north of the Alexander Aircraft factory and c. World War II another was to the factory's southeast at the south end of the Nichols Field taxiway. On the Pike's Peak Ocean-to-Occan Highway west of the city was the end of the 1951 Colorado sports car rally (terminus at the Crystola Inn), a 1953 dirt dragstrip "some four miles east of Colorado Springs" was used for "the first statewide drag race", and a stock car track was along Powers Road in the early 1960s. 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". 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 velodrome in Memorial Park is a remaining racing venue within the city.
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