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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.08.2011 - 2:43 pm
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Volusia Speedway Park (formerly known as Volusia County Speedway) is an
auto racing facility located near Barberville in Volusia County,
Florida. It operates a 1/2-mile dirt oval, a 3/8-mile asphalt oval and a
1/8-mile dirt oval for karts. It currently hosts races from the World of
Outlaws series (both sprints and late models) and the UMP late model series.


  2.   MayorHinch posted:
  07.30.2014 - 9:42 am
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Track length for all NNS events is 0.375 miles.


  3.   23andJoe posted:
  10.05.2014 - 4:14 am
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The above is erronious. The paved track was 1/2 mile.

It was paved before the 1989 season, then converted back to dirt in 1999.

The 3/8 mile track was always dirt and has no events covered here.


  4.   Canadianfan posted:
  07.21.2018 - 11:53 pm
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The NASCAR Late Model Sportsman Division what we now know as the Xfinty
series ran 4 races here in February of 1976 before going to Daytona.
This would be the last time A major NASCAR series would run on dirt
until Eldora in 2013 with the Truck series.


  5.   @statscrash posted:
  02.20.2020 - 3:36 am
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I had no idea Volusia was ever paved.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.04.2021 - 10:13 am
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The "50 laps your way, then 50 laps my way" testing scene in the movie
"Days of Thunder" was filmed here in 1990 when the track was paved. Much
of the film was shot in the Daytona area so they used a local short
track. The track was paid more than $300,000 for letting the film crew
use it, with county residents scoring $1.5 million in total from
everything else the film crew bought, rented, or hired during the shoot.

The scene was inspired by a real testing session that took place a few
years earlier when crew chief Harry Hyde made Tim Richmond do the same
thing, the movie was loosely based on the pair's partnership. Cup racer
Hut Stricklin was the primary stunt driver for the scene although they
did let star Tom Cruise do some of his own driving too. One take saw
Cruise steer right by mistake and spin out his Lumina, wrecking a
$100,000 film camera attached to the outside of the stock car although
the car itself wasn't hurt.


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