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Track Facts

  • On-track activity is scheduled at Infineon Raceway an average of 340 days per year.
  • In 1970, Dan Gurney won a 150-mile USAC Indy Car road race with a field that included Mario Andretti, Mark Donohue and Al Unser.
  • The Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup event is one of the few on the Sprint Cup schedule measured in kilometers. This event is 110 laps, or 218.9 miles or 352.21 kilometers.
  • Michael Waltrip holds the record for most laps completed by at NASCAR Sprint Cup driver at Infineon Raceway. Through 17 races, or 1,554 laps, Waltrip has completed 1,548.
  • Jeff Gordon is the top Sprint Cup money winner at Infineon Raceway with $1,507,217, competing in 13 of 17 NASCAR events.
  • Mark Martin holds the track record for the most top-ten Sprint Cup finishes at Infineon Raceway at 13. He has also claimed one victory (1997) and either top-five finishes on the road course.
  • Dale Earnhardt won his first and only NASCAR road-course race at Infineon Raceway in 1995.
  • Suzuki has won the most Superbike titles at Infineon Raceway with eleven. It is followed by: Honda (10), Kawasaki (3), Yamaha (2) and Ducati (2).
  • Mat Mladin holds the IR record for most Superbike wins at six (1999, 2003, 2004, and 2005).
  • Six of the eight professional class track records were reset in 2005. Larry Dixon reset the Top Fuel speed record by more than three miles per hour at 329.02.
  • Don Prudhomme is the only driver to win at Infineon Raceway in two different professional divisions, Funny Car in 1989 and Top Fuel in 1992.
  • Andres Hines reset the NHRA national Pro Stock Bike Elapsed Time record at Infineon Raceway in 2005 @ 6.968 seconds.

    FACILITY FACTS:

    • Infineon Raceway owns 1,600 acres in the beautiful Sonoma Valley, 900 of which is used for daily racing activities.
    • More than nine and a half million cubic yards of dirt were moved on the Infineon Raceway property during the $50-million Modernization Plan from 2000-2002.
    • The hillside terrace seats at Turns 2-4, 7 and 8a-9 have used a total of 140,000 concrete blocks. At 18-inches long each, that is almost 40 miles of blocks.
    • Approximately 121,176 gallons of concrete were used to create the 660-foot concrete launch pad on the renovated drag strip.
    • The renovation of the drag strip required 9,600 hours of manpower.
    • Ten tons of rebar cable was laid underneath the surface of the drag strip to reinforce the concrete launch pad.

 

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