Track Specifications:
Track/Race Length: 2.66 mile quad oval, 188 laps, 500.08 miles
Superspeedway: 2.66-mile trioval 48 feet wide (12-foot apron)
Turns: Banking: 33° Length: 3,750 feet Radius: 1,100 feet
Trioval: Banking: 18°
Frontstretch: Chute length: 2,150 feet (from turn to middle of trioval) Total length: 4,300 feet Banking: 16.5°
Backstretch: Length: 4,000 feet Banking: 2°
Pit Road: Length: 3,000 feet; Width: 48 feet
Pit Road Speed: 55mph
Pace Car Speed: 70mph
Grandstand Seating: 78,000 [was 109,000 & 143,231]
Track last paved: Summer 2006
Opened: 1969
Race Festivities/Officials:
Grand Marshal: Rhett Rayburn, Regional Vice President, GEICO
Command to start engines: Rhett Rayburn, Regional Vice President, GEICO
Honorary Pace Car Driver: TBA
Honorary Starter/Wave Green Flag: US Army SFC James W. Knight
Invocation: TBA
National Anthem: 313th United States Army Band
Flyover: GEICO Skytypers
Track Websites / Social Media:
Talladega Superspeedway
ISC Motorsports
Talladega Superspeedway - Facebook
Talladega Superspeedway - Twitter
Talladega Superspeedway - Google+
Talladega Superspeedway - YouTube
Talladega Superspeedway - Pinterest
Talladega-Texaco Walk of Fame
International Motorsports Hall of Fame(Talladega)
Tire: Goodyear Eagle Superspeedway Radials
Set limits: Sprint Cup: 4 sets for practice/qualifying and 6 sets for the race
Tire Codes: Left-side -- D-4596; Right-side -- D-4630
Tire Circumference:
Left-side -- 87.99 in. (2,235 mm);
Right-side -- 88.50 in. (2,248 mm)
Technical Inspection Inflation:
Left Front -- 30 psi; Left Rear -- 30 psi;
Right Front -- 55 psi; Right Rear -- 50 psi
Minimum Recommended Inflation:
Left Front -- 27 psi; Left Rear -- 27 psi;
Right Front -- 50 psi; Right Rear -- 50 psi
Notes: While teams in both NASCAR series in action at Talladega this weekend will run the same left-side tire code (D-4596), they will run distinct right-side codes . . . Sprint Cup teams will be on a new right-side tire code (D-4630) . . . compared to what these teams ran at Talladega in May, this right-side features a compound change for better wear . . . Goodyear engineers made the change based on what they have seen of the track surface, which is now eight years from it's last re-pave (2006) . . . as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Talladega . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.