NASCAR Tracks | Short, Intermediate, SuperSpeedways and Road Courses

NASCAR Race Track Guides

Welcome to our guide to all the NASCAR race tracks currently used through each season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

From east, to all the way west across the United States, check out our increasing amount of guides to some of the toughest NASCAR speedways and NASCAR tracks in the world.

• Daytona International Speedway

Types of NASCAR Tracks

Although there are road course races during as NASCAR season, the majority of races are held on high speed ovals. There are different types of ovals that are broken into 3 categories based around the length of the track. They are:

• Short Circuit
• Intimidate Circuit
• Super Speedway.

Short Race Track NASCAR Circuits

These tracks are less than 1 mile in overall length. That is short enough for a few seconds of full throttle before heavy braking into some relatively right corners.

Intermediate Race Track NASCAR Circuits

These tracks are greater than 1 mile in distance, but shorter than 2 miles in overall length. Obviously the speeds are considerably higher than short circuit ovals but these are not the fastest kind.

NASCAR Superspeedways

These are the pinnacle races of the NASCAR seasons with top speeds reached around these monster oval tracks. They are over 2 miles long per lap and allow modern NASCAR's to reach incredible speeds. The Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Speedway are known as restrictor plate races meaning the cars have their excessive speeds curbed so that racing speeds remain at a safer level. This measure doesn't stop big wrecks from taking place at these placed though!