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Huntsville Speedway is a quarter-mile (.402 km) oval race track in
Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville is the List of municipalities in Alabama, most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population of the city is estimated to be 241,114 in 2024, making it the List of United States cities by population, 100th-most populous ...
. It opened in 1959 as a
dirt track, and was paved in 1962. It held one
NASCAR Grand National Series The name NASCAR Grand National Series refers to former names of the following NASCAR series:
*National-level stock car series:
**NASCAR Cup Series (the top NASCAR series, known as NASCAR Grand National Series between 1950 and 1970, then the NASCAR ...
event in 1962, won by
Richard Petty
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most nota ...
.
Today the track hosts weekly racing with a variety of
stock car
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and
modified classes. It shut down early in 2013 and has reopened on April 2, 2016. It is hosted for race events for other racing types.
The track also hosted one
NASCAR Southeast Series
The NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southeast Series was a NASCAR-sanctioned amateur/semi-pro late model stock car racing series based in the Southeastern United States. The series was formerly known as the Slim Jim All Pro Series; it was founded i ...
event in 2003 and was won by
Shane Sieg
Rodney Shane Sieg (August 23, 1982 – August 19, 2017) was an American professional stock car racing driver. He last drove the No. 93 S&W Services Chevrolet for RSS Racing. He was the older brother of Xfinity Series drivers Ryan Sieg and Kyle ...
.
NASCAR Grand National results
References
External links
Official websiteHuntsville Speedway race results
at Racing-Reference
NASCAR tracks
ARCA Menards Series tracks
Motorsport venues in Alabama
Sports venues in Huntsville, Alabama
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